{"id":2211,"date":"2018-03-19T23:15:47","date_gmt":"2018-03-19T23:15:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/?p=2211"},"modified":"2018-03-19T23:15:47","modified_gmt":"2018-03-19T23:15:47","slug":"calaveras-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/?p=2211","title":{"rendered":"Calaveras County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>California&#8217;s new legal system seems to be working, though it&#8217;s impossibly early to tell for sure.  I&#8217;ll be talking about that more, but there is one place where it didn&#8217;t work.<\/p>\n<p>Calaveras County is in the Sierras, and was once a logging place until the mill shut down.  The county went ahead and authorized many cannabis farmers in 2016.  Once they had their permits they could build out, grow a crop, and pay the taxes.  In January 2018, the county changed it&#8217;s mind and banned all the growers they had permitted.  After collecting about $10 million in fees and taxes.<\/p>\n<p>Now they have nothing except a ton of lawsuits.  And the big question of which businesses are they going to attract to the county now?<\/p>\n<p>So far, that&#8217;s a worst-case situation.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>California&#8217;s new legal system seems to be working, though it&#8217;s impossibly early to tell for sure. I&#8217;ll be talking about that more, but there is one place where it didn&#8217;t work. Calaveras County is in the Sierras, and was once a logging place until the mill shut down. The county went ahead and authorized many [&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-2211","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\/2211","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=2211"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2212,"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2211\/revisions\/2212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}