{"id":9201,"date":"2020-05-20T23:37:54","date_gmt":"2020-05-20T23:37:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thecannabist.co\/2020\/05\/20\/california-joins-push-to-let-cannabis-businesses-use-banks-as-part-of-coronavirus-relief\/134865\/"},"modified":"2020-05-20T23:37:54","modified_gmt":"2020-05-20T23:37:54","slug":"california-joins-push-to-let-cannabis-businesses-use-banks-as-part-of-coronavirus-relief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/california-joins-push-to-let-cannabis-businesses-use-banks-as-part-of-coronavirus-relief\/","title":{"rendered":"California joins push to let cannabis businesses use banks as part of coronavirus relief"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0 5px 5px;float:right;height:100px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/california-joins-push-to-let-cannabis-businesses-use-banks-as-part-of-coronavirus-relief\/\" send=\"true\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div><div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecannabist.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/OCR-L-CANNABIS-0418-01-SRA-1-560x373.jpg\"><img src=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/california-joins-push-to-let-cannabis-businesses-use-banks-as-part-of-coronavirus-relief.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div><img src=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/california-joins-push-to-let-cannabis-businesses-use-banks-as-part-of-coronavirus-relief-2.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"large-10 large-centered small-12 columns\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecannabist.co\/2020\/05\/20\/california-joins-push-to-let-cannabis-businesses-use-banks-as-part-of-coronavirus-relief\/134865\/#comments-anchor\"><span class=\"spot-im-replies-count\" data-post-id=\"134865\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>California Attorney General Xavier Becerra is joining a bipartisan group of 34 attorneys general in urging Congress to approve a coronavirus relief package that would let marijuana businesses use traditional banking services.<\/p>\n<p>The Democrat-controlled House on Friday, May 15, approved the idea of granting banking access to cannabis businesses as part of the $3 trillion HEROES Act, which would provide the biggest package of programs yet aimed at buffering the economic fallout of the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>Banking services are out of reach for the cannabis industry, even in states where recreational use of the plant has been approved, because marijuana is illegal under federal law.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ocregister.com\/2020\/05\/20\/california-joins-push-to-let-cannabis-businesses-use-banks-as-part-of-coronavirus-relief\/\">Read the rest of this story on ocregister.com.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!-- .row --> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>California Attorney General Xavier Becerra is joining a bipartisan group of 34 attorneys general in urging Congress to approve a coronavirus relief package that would let marijuana businesses use traditional banking services. The Democrat-controlled House on Friday, May 15, approved the idea of granting banking access to cannabis businesses as part of the $3 trillion [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8226,117,9,441,1,3,61,1736],"tags":[8227,2695,3015],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9201"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9201\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}