{"id":1343,"date":"2021-04-12T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-12T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/CAIiEJbzfYivnuVmFs_1hv5cj3EqGQgEKhAIACoHCAow4o-VCzDr7KoDMK_YxQY"},"modified":"2021-04-12T07:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-04-12T07:00:00","slug":"legal-weed-still-uncertain-in-connecticut-this-year-despite-momentum-in-new-york-and-new-jersey-hartford-courant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/?p=1343","title":{"rendered":"Legal weed still uncertain in Connecticut this year, despite momentum in New York and New Jersey &#8211; Hartford Courant"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/legal-weed-still-uncertain-in-connecticut-this-year-despite-momentum-in-new-york-and-new-jersey-hartford-courant.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p class=\" \"> \u201cI have never felt that the marijuana money should be used to subsidize towns\u2019 operating budgets,\u201d he said. \u201cWe should be helping our cities through the PILOT system, which has been around for a long time \u2014 just underfunded. But marijuana revenues, to me, should not be a source of revenue for towns, other than the local property tax they can collect. It should go to equity. It should go to helping small businesses in urban areas. Juvenile justice programs and, yes, for treatment and other things like that. So I would agree with the minority leader on that \u2014 absolutely.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI have never felt that the marijuana money should be used to subsidize towns\u2019 operating budgets,\u201d he said. \u201cWe should be helping our cities through the PILOT system, which has been around for a long time \u2014 just underfunded. But marijuana revenues, to me, should not be a source of revenue for towns, other than the local property tax they can collect. It should go to equity. It should go to helping small businesses in urban areas. Juvenile justice programs and, yes, for treatment and other things like that. So I would agree with the minority leader on that \u2014&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1344,"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-1343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/legal-weed-still-uncertain-in-connecticut-this-year-despite-momentum-in-new-york-and-new-jersey-hartford-courant.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1343","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=1343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1343\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}