{"id":2253,"date":"2021-10-19T12:10:07","date_gmt":"2021-10-19T12:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/CBMiX2h0dHBzOi8vYnJvb2tseW4ubmV3czEyLmNvbS9zdGF0ZS1pbmNyZWFzZXMtYW1vdW50LW9mLW1hcmlqdWFuYS1tZWRpY2FsLXJlY2lwaWVudHMtY2FuLXB1cmNoYXNl0gEA"},"modified":"2021-10-19T12:10:07","modified_gmt":"2021-10-19T12:10:07","slug":"state-increases-amount-of-marijuana-medical-recipients-can-purchase-news-12-brooklyn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/?p=2253","title":{"rendered":"State increases amount of marijuana medical recipients can purchase &#8211; News 12 Brooklyn"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/state-increases-amount-of-marijuana-medical-recipients-can-purchase-news-12-brooklyn.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"byline\"><span class=\"author\">News 12 Staff<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"date\">Oct 19, 2021, 12:09pm<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"datetime\">\n<p><span class=\"text\">Updated on: <!-- -->Oct 19, 2021, 12:09pm<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Medical marijuana recipients are now allowed to purchase more from dispensaries around Connecticut.<\/p>\n<p>The Department of Consumer Protection&nbsp;announced there are&nbsp;new rules for the nearly 54,000 medical marijuana patients in&nbsp;Connecticut,&nbsp;including an increase of how much they can buy at a dispensary. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Medical marijuana recipients&nbsp;can now buy up to 3 ounces per month, up from 2.5 ounces. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The marijuana will not be taxed like recreational&nbsp;cannabis, which&nbsp;is legal now but won&#8217;t be available for purchase until 2022.<\/p>\n<p>The state is also now allowing patients to use any of the 18 dispensaries throughout the&nbsp;state. They&nbsp;used to have to choose one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News 12 Staff Oct 19, 2021, 12:09pm Updated on: Oct 19, 2021, 12:09pm Medical marijuana recipients are now allowed to purchase more from dispensaries around Connecticut. The Department of Consumer Protection&nbsp;announced there are&nbsp;new rules for the nearly 54,000 medical marijuana patients in&nbsp;Connecticut,&nbsp;including an increase of how much they can buy at a dispensary. &nbsp; Medical marijuana recipients&nbsp;can now buy up to 3 ounces per month, up from 2.5 ounces. &nbsp; The marijuana will not be taxed like recreational&nbsp;cannabis, which&nbsp;is legal now but won&#8217;t be available for purchase until 2022. The state is also now allowing patients to use any of&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2254,"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-2253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/state-increases-amount-of-marijuana-medical-recipients-can-purchase-news-12-brooklyn.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2253","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=2253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2253\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}