{"id":109767,"date":"2017-08-03T23:53:42","date_gmt":"2017-08-04T03:53:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=109767"},"modified":"2017-08-03T23:53:42","modified_gmt":"2017-08-04T03:53:42","slug":"cannabis-company-plans-to-turn-desert-town-into-pot-paradise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/08\/03\/cannabis-company-plans-to-turn-desert-town-into-pot-paradise\/","title":{"rendered":"Cannabis company plans to turn desert town into pot paradise"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_109103\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-109103\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/640px-Marijuana-Cannabis-Weed-Bud-Gram.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-109103\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/640px-Marijuana-Cannabis-Weed-Bud-Gram-300x208.jpg\" alt=\"A dried bud of cannabis, which can be used for medical therapy. 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(Photo By Evan-Amos &#8211; Own work, Public Domain)<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"background: white\"><span style=\"font-size: 13.5pt;color: black\">NIPTON, Calif. &#8212; Now that one of the nation&#8217;s largest cannabis companies has bought the entire California desert town of Nipton, a question remains: Will the new owners rename the place Potsylvania?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white;text-align: start\"><span style=\"font-size: 13.5pt;color: black\">American Green Inc. announced Thursday it is buying all 80 acres of the town whose current owner likes to describe it as being conveniently located in the middle of nowhere.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white;text-align: start\"><span style=\"font-size: 13.5pt;color: black\">Nipton owner Roxanne Lang says escrow hasn&#8217;t closed yet. But she confirms American Green is the buyer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white;text-align: start\"><span style=\"font-size: 13.5pt;color: black\">The new owner plans to turn the onetime Gold Rush town 60 miles from Las Vegas into an \u201c<a name=\"AUTOJUMP\"><\/a>energy-independent, cannabis-friendly\u201d destination.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white;text-align: start\"><span style=\"font-size: 13.5pt;color: black\">When Lang&#8217;s late husband, Gerald Freeman, bought Nipton in 1985 it was a rundown ghost town.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white;text-align: start\"><span style=\"font-size: 13.5pt;color: black\">He transformed it into an eccentric destination for desert aficionados.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white;text-align: start\"><span style=\"font-size: 13.5pt;color: black\">Only about 20 people live there.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NIPTON, Calif. &#8212; Now that one of the nation&#8217;s largest cannabis companies has bought the entire California desert town of &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":109103,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,17],"tags":[4267,20417],"class_list":["post-109767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-w","tag-cannabis","tag-desert","mauthors-john-locher","mauthors-john-rogers","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109767\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}