{"id":1896,"date":"2017-04-20T00:04:40","date_gmt":"2017-04-20T00:04:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/?p=1896"},"modified":"2017-04-20T00:04:40","modified_gmt":"2017-04-20T00:04:40","slug":"california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/?p=1896","title":{"rendered":"California"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>California exports 80% of it&#8217;s cannabis crop out-of-state, which means only 20% of the industry is eligible to become state licensed under either medical or recreational schemes.  Even if California is 100% successful in regulating the entire <em>domestic<\/em> market, the black market will still be five times the size.  That&#8217;s how much is needed to supply the market elsewhere in the US.  Oregon is in a similar position, but on a smaller scale.<\/p>\n<p>The absurdity of so many California government entities developing laws, regulations, taxes, and fees that will make becoming compliant cost-prohibitive for, at best 20% of the market.<\/p>\n<p>And 4\/5ths of the market will still be vulnerable to federal prohibition against interstate commerce.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s hard for me to see how the government can get even close to the perfection of 20% capture and claim they have control over the cannabis market, which current federal guidelines demand.  The current efforts in California are doomed from the outset to succeed.<\/p>\n<p>That is, unless it becomes legal to move cannabis across state lines&#8230;. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>California exports 80% of it&#8217;s cannabis crop out-of-state, which means only 20% of the industry is eligible to become state licensed under either medical or recreational schemes. Even if California is 100% successful in regulating the entire domestic market, the black market will still be five times the size. That&#8217;s how much is needed to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1896"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1899,"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1896\/revisions\/1899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}