{"id":1649,"date":"2021-08-05T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-05T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/CAIiECpKpAcV753u4ZxueoioBv0qGQgEKhAIACoHCAow4o-VCzDr7KoDMK_YxQY"},"modified":"2021-08-05T07:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-08-05T07:00:00","slug":"residents-of-these-35-connecticut-cities-and-towns-will-get-priority-for-marijuana-business-licenses-hartford-courant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/?p=1649","title":{"rendered":"Residents of these 35 Connecticut cities and towns will get priority for marijuana business licenses &#8211; Hartford Courant"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/residents-of-these-35-connecticut-cities-and-towns-will-get-priority-for-marijuana-business-licenses-hartford-courant.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p class=\" \"> More than 200 of the state\u2019s 833 census tracts qualify as \u201cdisproportionately impacted areas\u201d based on their unemployment rates and historical drug conviction rates. Under the terms of the marijuana legalization bill signed into law earlier this year, residents of those neighborhoods \u2014 or those who grew up there \u2014 will pay lower licensing fees. And half of all marijuana business licenses must be reserved for applicants from those areas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 200 of the state\u2019s 833 census tracts qualify as \u201cdisproportionately impacted areas\u201d based on their unemployment rates and historical drug conviction rates. Under the terms of the marijuana legalization bill signed into law earlier this year, residents of those neighborhoods \u2014 or those who grew up there \u2014 will pay lower licensing fees. And half of all marijuana business licenses must be reserved for applicants from those areas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1650,"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-1649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/residents-of-these-35-connecticut-cities-and-towns-will-get-priority-for-marijuana-business-licenses-hartford-courant.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1649","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=1649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1649\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}