{"id":1456,"date":"2023-09-28T11:19:58","date_gmt":"2023-09-28T15:19:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/cannabis\/?p=1456"},"modified":"2023-09-28T11:20:04","modified_gmt":"2023-09-28T15:20:04","slug":"why-the-u-s-virgin-islands-are-fertile-soil-for-cannabis-businesses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/cannabis\/2023\/09\/28\/why-the-u-s-virgin-islands-are-fertile-soil-for-cannabis-businesses\/","title":{"rendered":"Why the U.S. Virgin Islands Are Fertile Soil for Cannabis Businesses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/attorneys\/paulpjosephson.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Paul Josephson<\/strong><\/a>, partner and team lead of the Duane Morris Cannabis Industry Group, moderated a fireside chat with <strong>U.S. Virgin Islands Governor\u00a0Albert Bryan Jr. <\/strong>at the Benzinga Cannabis Capital Conference on September 27, 2023.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA governor who really gets economic development,\u201d as Josephson said,\u00a0Bryan said the region is on\u00a0the cusp of an unprecedented economic surge. \u201cWe have a $4-billion economy right now. And we have $15 billion in sales over the next 10 or so years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/markets\/cannabis\/23\/09\/34961579\/exclusive-why-the-us-virgin-islands-are-fertile-soil-for-cannabis-businesses?utm_campaign=partner_feed&amp;utm_source=InvestingUK&amp;utm_medium=partner_feed&amp;utm_content=TopStories\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on the Benzinga website<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Josephson, partner and team lead of the Duane Morris Cannabis Industry Group, moderated a fireside chat with U.S. Virgin Islands Governor\u00a0Albert Bryan Jr. at the Benzinga Cannabis Capital Conference on September 27, 2023. \u201cA governor who really gets economic development,\u201d as Josephson said,\u00a0Bryan said the region is on\u00a0the cusp of an unprecedented economic surge. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/cannabis\/2023\/09\/28\/why-the-u-s-virgin-islands-are-fertile-soil-for-cannabis-businesses\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Why the U.S. Virgin Islands Are Fertile Soil for Cannabis Businesses&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[843,125,126,1014],"ppma_author":[714],"class_list":["post-1456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-benzinga-cannabis-capital-conference","tag-cannabis-investment","tag-paul-josephson","tag-virgin-islands"],"authors":[{"term_id":714,"user_id":6,"is_guest":0,"slug":"duanemorris3","display_name":"Duane Morris","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/843ff6e7a8fe5fc92109b47a45f34b6cf0ea499e6e788db23456c838b0ae6747?s=96&d=blank&r=g","0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/cannabis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/cannabis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/cannabis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/cannabis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/cannabis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/cannabis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1456\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/cannabis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/cannabis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/cannabis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1456"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/cannabis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=1456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}