{"id":2770,"date":"2020-11-14T23:40:40","date_gmt":"2020-11-14T23:40:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/?p=2770"},"modified":"2020-11-14T23:40:40","modified_gmt":"2020-11-14T23:40:40","slug":"new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/?p=2770","title":{"rendered":"New York"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>No one could have foreseen that South Dakota would legalize marijuana before New York. That&#8217;s a double strike against NY because New Jersey beat them to it as well. The race is now on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>New Jersey is interesting because they don&#8217;t impose any special marijuana tax on sales, relying totally on their existing sales tax (about 6.25%). That means if NY did legalize, and tax like all other states, NJ will always have the cheaper products.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now consider that besides NY, Connecticut and Rhode Island and Delaware will be looking at legalizing as well, four more states that can act in 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, New Mexico will almost certainly finally pass their law early in 2021. So depending on how things go, that&#8217;s 40 senators that come from legal states.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No one could have foreseen that South Dakota would legalize marijuana before New York. That&#8217;s a double strike against NY because New Jersey beat them to it as well. The race is now on. New Jersey is interesting because they don&#8217;t impose any special marijuana tax on sales, relying totally on their existing sales tax [&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-2770","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\/2770","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=2770"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2771,"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2770\/revisions\/2771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}