{"id":2219,"date":"2018-09-06T17:56:31","date_gmt":"2018-09-06T17:56:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cannachronicle.com\/?p=2219"},"modified":"2018-09-06T17:56:31","modified_gmt":"2018-09-06T17:56:31","slug":"trulieve-forms-partnership-with-bhang-chocolate-to-bring-medical-cannabis-edibles-to-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannachronicle.com\/2018\/09\/06\/trulieve-forms-partnership-with-bhang-chocolate-to-bring-medical-cannabis-edibles-to-florida\/","title":{"rendered":"Trulieve Forms Partnership with Bhang Chocolate to Bring Medical Cannabis Edibles to Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"cb-itemprop\" itemprop=\"reviewBody\"><div>Trulieve, Florida&#8217;s largest and most popular medical cannabis provider based in\u00a0 Quincy announced\u00a0<span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_352731133\"><span class=\"aQJ\">on Wednesday<\/span><\/span>\u00a0that it is partnering with Bhang, which is touted as having the \u201cmost-awarded line of cannabis chocolate bars on the planet,\u201d the company says.<\/div>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2220\" src=\"http:\/\/cannachronicle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Bhang-Bar-Flavors-Taste-Dosage-1024x747-300x219.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"219\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cannachronicle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Bhang-Bar-Flavors-Taste-Dosage-1024x747-300x219.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cannachronicle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Bhang-Bar-Flavors-Taste-Dosage-1024x747-768x560.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cannachronicle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Bhang-Bar-Flavors-Taste-Dosage-1024x747.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u201cWe continue to look for partnerships that will benefit our patients and continue to provide relief in a safe, dependable manner,\u201d said Trulieve CEO Kim Rivers. \u201cAs an international, award-winning brand and customer favorite, Bhang\u2019s flavorful, consistent, and reliable products will truly enhance what we can offer to our patients.\u201d<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The Bhang products are awaiting approval from the Florida Department of Health\u2019s\u00a0Office of Medical Marijuana Use.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>It is uncertain whether or not the agency will give the green light for the products and there is also no deadline put in place.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Legally, edible products are\u00a0permitted by state law, but are not yet available in Florida since regulations have yet to be finalized.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>If the approval goes through, however, Florida would be able to join the ranks of other states which offer Bhang\u2019s edible products.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Bhang, led by professional chef and master chocolatier Scott Van Rixel, already has markets in California, New Mexico and Michigan, and is currently gearing up for online sales in Illinois, Canada and Germany. In addition, the company anticipates expanding to\u00a0Puerto Rico, Austria, Liechtenstein and Switzerland through 2019.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>If all goes as planned, this partnership would make Trulieve the exclusive seller of the Bhang\u2019s line of edibles in Florida.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u201cTrulieve is an outstanding cannabis company with extensive knowledge, resources, and passion in everything they do and we believe that this partnership will be a great fit for Bhang in Florida,\u201d Van Rixel said.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Based on research conducted by\u00a0BDS Analytics and The Arcview Group, Trulieve estimates that the current number of 150,000 plus registered medical cannabis patients will have nearly tripled by 2020.<\/div>\n<div id=\"mantis__recommended__wordpress\"><\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\" data-cfasync=\"false\">\n    MANTIS_RECOMMEND = {\n        property: '556c86bbbf60bd001d672ecb',\n        render: 'mantis__recommended__wordpress'\n    };\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\" data-cfasync=\"false\">\n\tvar z = document.createElement(\"script\");\n\tz.type = \"text\/javascript\";\n\tz.async = true;\n\tz.src = \"\/\/assets.mantisadnetwork.com\/recommend.min.js\";\n\tvar s = document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0];\n\ts.parentNode.insertBefore(z, s);\n<\/script><\/p>\n<link href=\"\/\/assets.mantisadnetwork.com\/recommend.3columns.css\" rel=\"stylesheet\" type=\"text\/css\" \/>\n<\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trulieve, Florida&#8217;s largest and most popular medical cannabis provider based in\u00a0 Quincy announced\u00a0on Wednesday\u00a0that it is partnering with Bhang, which is touted as having the \u201cmost-awarded line of cannabis chocolate bars on the planet,\u201d the company says. \u201cWe continue to look for partnerships that will benefit our patients and continue to provide relief in a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2221,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[319,320,79,322,81,321,269],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cannachronicle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/1200x628-med-mmj.001-1.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannachronicle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2219"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannachronicle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannachronicle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannachronicle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannachronicle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cannachronicle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2219\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannachronicle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannachronicle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannachronicle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannachronicle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}