{"id":5205,"date":"2022-04-01T10:03:23","date_gmt":"2022-04-01T10:03:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/CAIiEO1EyqybFKtZS1Ban-IbEkYqGQgEKhAIACoHCAow4o-VCzDr7KoDMLHYxQY"},"modified":"2022-04-01T10:03:23","modified_gmt":"2022-04-01T10:03:23","slug":"nathan-tinker-repeal-connecticuts-medical-marijuana-certificate-fees-hartford-courant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/?p=5205","title":{"rendered":"Nathan Tinker: Repeal Connecticut&#8217;s medical marijuana certificate fees &#8211; Hartford Courant"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/nathan-tinker-repeal-connecticuts-medical-marijuana-certificate-fees-hartford-courant.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p class=\" \" data-item-type=\"depthscroll\" data-item-id=\"depth_scroll_middle\" data-item-number=\"middle\"> Each year, medical marijuana patients must pay a $100 fee to the state to obtain a medical marijuana certificate, and $25 per year for certificates for their caregivers. These fees \u2014 which amount to about $5.3 million in total each year \u2014 effectively, and unfairly, tax medical marijuana patients for access to their medication. No other medical treatment or therapy requires such fees or taxes and, unlike prescription drugs, medical marijuana is a cash-only market. It is not covered by insurance of any sort, so patients must bear the full cost out-of-pocket.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each year, medical marijuana patients must pay a $100 fee to the state to obtain a medical marijuana certificate, and $25 per year for certificates for their caregivers. These fees \u2014 which amount to about $5.3 million in total each year \u2014 effectively, and unfairly, tax medical marijuana patients for access to their medication. No other medical treatment or therapy requires such fees or taxes and, unlike prescription drugs, medical marijuana is a cash-only market. It is not covered by insurance of any sort, so patients must bear the full cost out-of-pocket.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5206,"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-5205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/nathan-tinker-repeal-connecticuts-medical-marijuana-certificate-fees-hartford-courant.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5205","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=5205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5205\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}