{"id":2879,"date":"2021-02-22T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-22T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/CAIiECfzI6siCBLhPj5J8fg94D8qGQgEKhAIACoHCAow4o-VCzDr7KoDMK_YxQY"},"modified":"2021-02-22T08:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-02-22T08:00:00","slug":"as-connecticut-edges-closer-to-legalizing-recreational-marijuana-pot-growers-are-ready-to-do-business-hartford-courant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/?p=2879","title":{"rendered":"As Connecticut edges closer to legalizing recreational marijuana, pot growers are ready to do business &#8211; Hartford Courant"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.courant.com\/resizer\/7FQoaMvEPmvj16fHAwfNL5qQX8M=\/1200x0\/top\/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com\/tronc\/FY3G3ACEAVB7ZCP2JASZ7SHOVY.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p> Marijuana buds are shown at Huron View Provisioning in Ann Arbor, Mich., Thursday, Jan. 28, 2021. The first year of state-licensed recreational marijuana sales in Michigan saw $511 million of sales in recreational and $474 million in medical sales, generating over $100 million in tax revenue, but the state also found that the industry drastically failed to attract minority business owners. (AP Photo\/Paul Sancya) <span class=\"credit--ctn\">(Paul Sancya\/AP)<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marijuana buds are shown at Huron View Provisioning in Ann Arbor, Mich., Thursday, Jan. 28, 2021. The first year of state-licensed recreational marijuana sales in Michigan saw $511 million of sales in recreational and $474 million in medical sales, generating over $100 million in tax revenue, but the state also found that the industry drastically failed to attract minority business owners. (AP Photo\/Paul Sancya) (Paul Sancya\/AP)<\/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":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-connecticut-cbd-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2879","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=2879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2879\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}