{"id":2616,"date":"2020-01-29T13:14:55","date_gmt":"2020-01-29T13:14:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/?p=2616"},"modified":"2020-01-29T13:14:55","modified_gmt":"2020-01-29T13:14:55","slug":"new-mexico-pot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/?p=2616","title":{"rendered":"New Mexico Pot"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Yesterday the NM Senate committee passed the marijuana legalization\/regulation bill, with the House committee expected to do the same in a day or two. Last year it was the Senate that stopped a similar bill, so it looks like it will pass easily this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>New Mexico has a functioning medical system which is prepared to convert rapidly when the first licenses are issued in January, 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>NM will be unique in the country in that it specifically prohibits local jurisdictions from banning cannabis businesses, a practice that has obstructed every other state that has legalized. No doubt this will lead to court challenges depending on the state&#8217;s constitution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Assuming Arizona passes a legalization initiative in November, we&#8217;ll have legal pot in most of the West. Idaho, Utah, and Wyoming will continue to choose the unregulated market, preferring jail time for it&#8217;s citizens. Customers in these states will be expected to drive to nearby legal states for their supply, enhancing the tax revenues and profits for those shops on the borders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday the NM Senate committee passed the marijuana legalization\/regulation bill, with the House committee expected to do the same in a day or two. Last year it was the Senate that stopped a similar bill, so it looks like it will pass easily this year. New Mexico has a functioning medical system which is prepared [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2616","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\/2616","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=2616"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2617,"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2616\/revisions\/2617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}