{"id":415,"date":"2018-08-21T14:27:54","date_gmt":"2018-08-21T18:27:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/cannabis\/?p=415"},"modified":"2018-08-21T14:27:54","modified_gmt":"2018-08-21T18:27:54","slug":"bank-closes-campaign-account-of-pro-cannabis-candidate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/cannabis\/2018\/08\/21\/bank-closes-campaign-account-of-pro-cannabis-candidate\/","title":{"rendered":"Bank Closes Campaign Account of Pro-Cannabis Candidate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Banking\u00a0continues to be\u00a0a challenge for the cannabis industry.\u00a0 But, Wells Fargo recently erected a new barrier: It closed the campaign bank account of Nikki Fried, candidate for Agriculture Commissioner of Florida. According to a report in the New York Times on August 21, 2018, the bank took notice of the candidate&#8217;s advocacy for better access to medical marijuana. It then asked the campaign whether it accepted contributions from lobbyists for the medical marijuana industry. When the campaign replied it accepted contributions from executives and employees in the industry, Wells Fargo closed the account.\u00a0 The campaign now banks at BB&amp;T.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/08\/20\/business\/marijuana-candidate-wells-fargo.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fbusiness&amp;action=click&amp;contentCollection=business&amp;region=rank&amp;module=package&amp;version=highlights&amp;contentPlacement=1&amp;pgtype=sectionfront\"> Full New York Times Story<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Banking\u00a0continues to be\u00a0a challenge for the cannabis industry.\u00a0 But, Wells Fargo recently erected a new barrier: It closed the campaign bank account of Nikki Fried, candidate for Agriculture Commissioner of Florida. According to a report in the New York Times on August 21, 2018, the bank took notice of the candidate&#8217;s advocacy for better access &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/cannabis\/2018\/08\/21\/bank-closes-campaign-account-of-pro-cannabis-candidate\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Bank Closes Campaign Account of Pro-Cannabis Candidate&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":321,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[22,63,201,330,353],"ppma_author":[727],"class_list":["post-415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-banking","tag-cannabis","tag-cannabis-banking","tag-david-landau","tag-landau"],"authors":[{"term_id":727,"user_id":321,"is_guest":0,"slug":"dlandau","display_name":"David E. Landau","avatar_url":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/cannabis\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/35\/2020\/04\/landaudavid-125x150.jpg","0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/cannabis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415","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\/321"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/cannabis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/cannabis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/cannabis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/cannabis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/cannabis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/cannabis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}