{"id":150412,"date":"2018-02-01T01:10:10","date_gmt":"2018-02-01T06:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=150412"},"modified":"2018-02-01T01:10:10","modified_gmt":"2018-02-01T06:10:10","slug":"cannabis-capitalists-exploit-loopholes-by-gifting-the-drug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/02\/01\/cannabis-capitalists-exploit-loopholes-by-gifting-the-drug\/","title":{"rendered":"Cannabis capitalists exploit loopholes by &#8216;gifting&#8217; the drug"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_120082\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-120082\" style=\"width: 428px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/cannabis-flower-2756638_640.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-120082\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/cannabis-flower-2756638_640.jpg\" alt=\"Companies are exploiting provisions in state marijuana laws that were intended to allow adults to give small amounts of the drug to each other without legal consequences. (PIXABAY Photo)\" width=\"428\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/cannabis-flower-2756638_640.jpg 428w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/cannabis-flower-2756638_640-201x300.jpg 201w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 428px) 100vw, 428px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-120082\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Companies are exploiting provisions in state marijuana laws that were intended to allow adults to give small amounts of the drug to each other without legal consequences. (Pixabay photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>BOSTON \u2014 Companies are exploiting provisions in state marijuana laws that were intended to allow adults to give small amounts of the drug to each other without legal consequences.<\/p>\n<p>In the Boston area, at least two companies have been operating for the past year. One sells high-priced juice that come with a free \u201cgift\u201d of marijuana. The other sells costly T-shirts that also come with the drug.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere, police in Colorado Springs say they shut down 14 similar operations last year.<\/p>\n<p>Morgan Fox, of the Marijuana Policy Project, says retail pot shops should make these so-called \u201cgifting\u201d operations obsolete.<\/p>\n<p>But Leo Beletsky, a Northeastern University law professor, suggests the Trump administration&#8217;s decision not to honour state marijuana laws could be a boon for them.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BOSTON \u2014 Companies are exploiting provisions in state marijuana laws that were intended to allow adults to give small amounts &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":120082,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4267,45469],"class_list":["post-150412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-cannabis","tag-capitalists","mauthors-philip-marcelo","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150412","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=150412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150412\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}