{"id":1347,"date":"2021-04-22T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-22T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/CAIiEFOMzMIJwl16di0fgHasTdwqGQgEKhAIACoHCAow4o-VCzDr7KoDMK_YxQY"},"modified":"2021-04-22T07:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-04-22T07:00:00","slug":"connecticut-lawmakers-pass-tax-bill-directing-legal-weed-revenue-to-address-equity-and-the-impact-of-the-war-on-drugs-hartford-courant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/?p=1347","title":{"rendered":"Connecticut lawmakers pass tax bill directing legal weed revenue to address equity and the impact of the war on drugs &#8211; Hartford Courant"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/connecticut-lawmakers-pass-tax-bill-directing-legal-weed-revenue-to-address-equity-and-the-impact-of-the-war-on-drugs-hartford-courant.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p class=\" \"> Rep. Gale Mastrofrancesco, R-Wolcott, said the \u201cfirst priority\u201d should be to target money for substance abuse and mental health treatment. Rep. Sean Scanlon, a Guilford Democrat and House chairman of the finance committee, said final legislation will increase funding for those areas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Gale Mastrofrancesco, R-Wolcott, said the \u201cfirst priority\u201d should be to target money for substance abuse and mental health treatment. Rep. Sean Scanlon, a Guilford Democrat and House chairman of the finance committee, said final legislation will increase funding for those areas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1348,"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-1347","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\/connecticut-lawmakers-pass-tax-bill-directing-legal-weed-revenue-to-address-equity-and-the-impact-of-the-war-on-drugs-hartford-courant.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1347","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=1347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1347\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}