{"id":1915,"date":"2017-05-11T23:21:24","date_gmt":"2017-05-11T23:21:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/?p=1915"},"modified":"2017-05-11T23:21:24","modified_gmt":"2017-05-11T23:21:24","slug":"nevada-pot-laws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/?p=1915","title":{"rendered":"Nevada Pot Laws"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I like how Nevada is handling it&#8217;s new recreational marijuana laws.  Like a few other states, their initiative passed last fall with a deadline of January 2018 for implementation.  I think all states would say 1 year is too short a time to get operational.  Nevada&#8217;s approach is that the tax collection system is now ready to go, and stores can open July 1.  The rest of the boring stuff can wait until January.<\/p>\n<p>This will create a rush to pay the license fees (not insubstantial), then very quickly there will be a reliable revenue stream when sales start to compensate for the costs of developing regulations.<\/p>\n<p>Industry people say Nevada has a glut of pot right now, so it should be able to absorb initial demand.  I&#8217;m suspicious of that because Nevada&#8217;s market is it&#8217;s tourists.<\/p>\n<p>I applaud Nevada for so adroitly side-stepping most of the pitfalls other states have experienced, temporarily, and being completely straight where the state&#8217;s priorities are.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I like how Nevada is handling it&#8217;s new recreational marijuana laws. Like a few other states, their initiative passed last fall with a deadline of January 2018 for implementation. I think all states would say 1 year is too short a time to get operational. Nevada&#8217;s approach is that the tax collection system is now [&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-1915","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\/1915","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=1915"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1916,"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1915\/revisions\/1916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}