{"id":9232,"date":"2020-07-06T12:59:59","date_gmt":"2020-07-06T12:59:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thecannabist.co\/2020\/07\/06\/the-struggle-to-enter-californias-cannabis-market-so-much-heartache-so-much-pain\/134925\/"},"modified":"2020-07-06T12:59:59","modified_gmt":"2020-07-06T12:59:59","slug":"the-struggle-to-enter-californias-cannabis-market-so-much-heartache-so-much-pain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/the-struggle-to-enter-californias-cannabis-market-so-much-heartache-so-much-pain\/","title":{"rendered":"The struggle to enter California&#8217;s cannabis market: &#8216;So much heartache, so much pain&#8217;"},"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\/the-struggle-to-enter-californias-cannabis-market-so-much-heartache-so-much-pain\/\" 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\/07\/SJM-L-CANNACOPS-0630-1-560x373.jpg\"><img src=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/the-struggle-to-enter-californias-cannabis-market-so-much-heartache-so-much-pain.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecannabist.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/SJM-L-POTREGION-1007-009A-560x373.jpg\"><img src=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/the-struggle-to-enter-californias-cannabis-market-so-much-heartache-so-much-pain-1.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div><img src=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/the-struggle-to-enter-californias-cannabis-market-so-much-heartache-so-much-pain-3.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\/07\/06\/the-struggle-to-enter-californias-cannabis-market-so-much-heartache-so-much-pain\/134925\/#comments-anchor\"><span class=\"spot-im-replies-count\" data-post-id=\"134925\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Linda Grant sold weed in the streets of East Oakland for 35 years before California legalized marijuana\u00a0in 2016. She\u2019s been \u201cgoing through hell\u201d trying to open a licensed business ever since.<\/p>\n<p>Five years and two frustrating partnerships later, Grant still has to get a loan to pay for a business storefront before she can even apply for a license to operate. \u201cIt\u2019s just ridiculous,\u201d Grant said. \u201cSo much heartache, so much pain.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The process is daunting: business plans, tax returns, seed money. Even with state programs designed to close the gap, experts and advocates say the cost of entry and long list of requirements are still keeping people of color and low-income applicants from entering the state\u2019s lucrative legal market.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/2020\/07\/06\/the-struggle-to-enter-californias-cannabis-market-so-much-heartache-so-much-pain\/\">Read the rest of this story on MercuryNews.com.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!-- .row --> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Linda Grant sold weed in the streets of East Oakland for 35 years before California legalized marijuana\u00a0in 2016. She\u2019s been \u201cgoing through hell\u201d trying to open a licensed business ever since. Five years and two frustrating partnerships later, Grant still has to get a loan to pay for a business storefront before she can even [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5062,8226,1964,9,1,3,61,1736],"tags":[5063,8227,4532],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9232"}],"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=9232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9232\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}