{"id":120,"date":"2021-07-19T09:00:14","date_gmt":"2021-07-19T09:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/CAIiEDv03OuPOFPe65eCevkFHsIqFwgEKg8IACoHCAowjuuKAzCWrzwwt4QY"},"modified":"2021-07-19T09:00:14","modified_gmt":"2021-07-19T09:00:14","slug":"the-8-billion-question-which-towns-will-cash-in-on-marijuana-the-new-york-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/?p=120","title":{"rendered":"The $8 Billion Question: Which Towns Will Cash In on Marijuana? &#8211; The New York Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/the-8-billion-question-which-towns-will-cash-in-on-marijuana-the-new-york-times.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"css-axufdj evys1bk0\">On the West Coast, California and the neighboring states of Washington, Oregon, Nevada and Arizona, where marijuana is also legal, are likely to remain the country\u2019s dominant market.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-axufdj evys1bk0\">In Massachusetts, the city of Easthampton, which opened its first dispensary in December 2018, and is close to at least five colleges, expects to be home to five dispensaries by the end of the year, the mayor, Nicole LaChapelle, said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-axufdj evys1bk0\">The extra revenue has been tremendously helpful, she said, especially during the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-axufdj evys1bk0\">A small 1,000-square-foot dispensary generated $84,000 in revenue for the city of roughly 16,000 in April, May and June alone, she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-axufdj evys1bk0\">The rollout has not been without hiccups. But the problems the city has faced, Ms. LaChapelle said, were not the same ones it anticipated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-axufdj evys1bk0\">\u201cThere was not an uptick in crime,\u201d she said, nor increased ambulance calls. \u201cWe did not need more patrols.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-axufdj evys1bk0\">Instead, the city has been forced to repair and repave roads damaged by a heavy flow of customers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-axufdj evys1bk0\">\u201cThe people just come from everywhere,\u201d Ms. LaChapelle said, adding that pedestrian crosswalks also had to be redesigned to make them safer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-axufdj evys1bk0\">Rob Mejia, a professor who teaches in the cannabis studies department at Stockton University near Atlantic City, N.J., said he expected the municipal jitters to fade over time, as has happened elsewhere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the West Coast, California and the neighboring states of Washington, Oregon, Nevada and Arizona, where marijuana is also legal, are likely to remain the country\u2019s dominant market. In Massachusetts, the city of Easthampton, which opened its first dispensary in December 2018, and is close to at least five colleges, expects to be home to five dispensaries by the end of the year, the mayor, Nicole LaChapelle, said. The extra revenue has been tremendously helpful, she said, especially during the pandemic. A small 1,000-square-foot dispensary generated $84,000 in revenue for the city of roughly 16,000 in April, May and June&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}