{"id":4235,"date":"2016-09-10T04:51:39","date_gmt":"2016-09-10T08:51:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=4235"},"modified":"2016-09-07T13:53:25","modified_gmt":"2016-09-07T17:53:25","slug":"meet-the-man-whos-the-federal-governments-pot-dealer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=4235","title":{"rendered":"Meet the man who\u2019s the federal government\u2019s pot dealer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Andrew Joseph for ST<em>A<\/em>T)<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"big-cap\">M<\/span>ahmoud ElSohly oversees acres of marijuana plants in the deep south, a swath of the country the tide of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncsl.org\/research\/health\/state-medical-marijuana-laws.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">medical marijuana legalization<\/a><sup class=\"footnote\">1<\/sup> has yet to touch. But he\u2019s not running an illegal operation \u2014 he\u2019s a professor of pharmaceutics and head of\u00a0the marijuana program at the University of Mississippi, which holds an exclusive contract with the government to produce <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/05\/16\/marijuana-research\/\" target=\"_blank\">marijuana for research<\/a><sup class=\"footnote\">2<\/sup>. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/06\/medical-marijuana-mississippi\/\" target=\"_blank\">Continue reading the article here&#8230;&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<pre><strong>Notice<\/strong>: The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/pre>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Andrew Joseph for STAT) Mahmoud ElSohly oversees acres of marijuana plants in the deep south, a swath of the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-general","category-part-dprescription-drugs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4235"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4236,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4235\/revisions\/4236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}