{"id":17108,"date":"2017-06-15T15:00:29","date_gmt":"2017-06-15T23:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2017\/06\/15\/ncia-expo-oakland-day-three-plus-mini-cup-results\/"},"modified":"2017-06-16T00:54:24","modified_gmt":"2017-06-16T08:54:24","slug":"ncia-expo-oakland-day-three-plus-mini-cup-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2017\/06\/15\/ncia-expo-oakland-day-three-plus-mini-cup-results\/","title":{"rendered":"NCIA Expo Oakland: Day Three (Plus Mini Cup Results!)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/gorillagluewinner.jpg\" width=\"620\" height=\"400\"> Following a night of festivities across the\u00a0cannabis industry\u2019s spiritual home in Oakland, the final day of the National Cannabis Industry Association\u2019s Summit &amp; Expo hit on emerging issues like tax reform and industry-wide packaging standards. Things started fast on the final day of the NCIA expo:\u00a0Harborside Health Center\u2019s\u00a0CEO and co-founder, Steve DeAngelo, and the dispensary\u2019s lead attorney, Henry Wykowski, (one of the top pot tax attorneys in the business) talked about section 280E\u00a0of the tax code, which prevents legal lot businesses from deducting\u00a0basic business expenses like rent. Last November, following Berkeley Patients Group\u2019s victory over the Department of Justice, Wykowski told Cannabis Now that Harborside\u2019s own 280E case is a big domino waiting to fall\u2014 the results (either way) will set precedent for the entire industry. \u201cIf we knock 280E out of the box, we\u2019ll lose one of the biggest problems we have,\u201d he said. \u201cGetting rid of 280E will help us a lot in dealing with the tax situation.\u201d The expo floor was popping off as people decided what specs they wanted on their outdoor cannabis defense drone:\u00a0NXT Robotics can hook your murdered-out cannabis killbot up with people, fire and smoke detection \u2014 you might as well shell out\u00a0for the license plate reader too, just to make sure it\u2019s your boys at the gate. NXT Founder, Jeff Dubosse, said leveraging one of the units as a security asset (using a \u201csubscription model\u201d) could save cultivators up to $70,000. You can even have a conversation with the person robbing your\u2026&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nRead More: <a href=\"https:\/\/cannabisnow.com\/ncia-expo-oakland-day-three-plus-mini-cup-results\/\" target=\"_blank\">NCIA Expo Oakland: Day Three (Plus Mini Cup Results!)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following a night of festivities across the\u00a0cannabis industry\u2019s spiritual home in Oakland, the final day of the National Cannabis Industry Association\u2019s Summit &amp; Expo hit on emerging issues like tax reform and industry-wide packaging standards. Things started fast on the final day of the NCIA expo:\u00a0Harborside Health Center\u2019s\u00a0CEO and co-founder,<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2017\/06\/15\/ncia-expo-oakland-day-three-plus-mini-cup-results\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":17109,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[70,50,193,69,71,72],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17108"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17108"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17110,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17108\/revisions\/17110"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}