{"id":14843,"date":"2017-11-12T16:20:15","date_gmt":"2017-11-12T21:20:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/?p=14843"},"modified":"2017-11-12T16:20:15","modified_gmt":"2017-11-12T21:20:15","slug":"california-sticker-shock-will-dispensary-prices-jump-70-percent-cannabis-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/2017\/11\/california-sticker-shock-will-dispensary-prices-jump-70-percent-cannabis-now\/","title":{"rendered":"California Sticker Shock: Will Dispensary Prices Jump 70 Percent? | Cannabis Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img src='https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cannabisnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/californiataxes.jpg?w=980&#038;ssl=1' style='max-width:600px;' data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<div>#News420 Pay attention for a second, #California. If you tax the fuck out of legal #cannabis, you are giving the black market a reason to survive&#8230;maybe even THRIVE. Cheap, legal cannabis can destroy the illegal market. Getting greedy, and heaping government tariffs on what should be just another cash crop&#8230;it&#8217;s really just an agricultural product, a &#8220;budding&#8221; industry that will create thousands of jobs&#8230;trying to overtax this market will doom your economy to huge tax revenue losses to a #BlackMarket. A black market which could be mostly eradicated under a system with reasonable taxes and oversight based on common sense. #DoItRight<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2mj3UbJ\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/2mj3UbJ<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>#News420 Pay attention for a second, #California. If you tax the fuck out of legal #cannabis, you are giving the black market a reason to survive&#8230;maybe even THRIVE. Cheap, legal cannabis can destroy the illegal market. Getting greedy, and heaping government tariffs on what should be just another cash crop&#8230;it&#8217;s really just an agricultural product, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[14,480,456,132,429],"tags":[523,159,33,530,552],"class_list":["post-14843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-facebook","category-jamie-gray","category-news","category-shared-link","tag-blog","tag-facebook","tag-jamie-gray","tag-news","tag-shared"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":15938,"url":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/2018\/03\/uk-is-worlds-largest-producer-of-legal-cannabis\/","url_meta":{"origin":14843,"position":0},"title":"UK is world&#8217;s largest producer of legal cannabis","date":"March 6, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"How is that even remotely possible? 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