{"id":19843,"date":"2017-09-29T14:27:20","date_gmt":"2017-09-29T22:27:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2017\/09\/29\/maine-panel-signs-off-on-rewrite-of-recreational-cannabis-law\/"},"modified":"2017-10-01T00:39:44","modified_gmt":"2017-10-01T08:39:44","slug":"maine-panel-signs-off-on-rewrite-of-recreational-cannabis-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2017\/09\/29\/maine-panel-signs-off-on-rewrite-of-recreational-cannabis-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Maine panel signs off on rewrite of recreational cannabis law"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>Maine\u2019s recreational marijuana law <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pressherald.com\/2017\/09\/28\/pot-taxes-scrutinized-by-lawmakers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">underwent a rewrite by a legislative committee<\/a>\u00a0this week that could spell major changes for the program, including an increased tax rate and a two-year residency requirement to own a rec shop.<\/p>\n<p>But Maine Gov. Paul LePage <a href=\"https:\/\/mjbizdaily.com\/maine-governor-backtracks-signs-bill-delaying-rec-mj-program\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">hasn\u2019t expressed much enthusiasm<\/a> about adult-use marijuana, and committee members are concerned he\u2019ll veto or delay the implementation of the bill, according to the Portland Press Herald.<\/p>\n<p>A final draft of the legislation is expected to be finished by Oct. 10.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Major provisions of the bill include:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A\u00a010% excise tax<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/mjbizdaily.com\/maine-panel-signs-off-rewrite-recreational-cannabis-law\/\">Maine panel signs off on rewrite of recreational cannabis law<\/a> is a post from: <a href=\"http:\/\/mjbizdaily.com\">Marijuana Business Daily: Financial, Legal &amp; Cannabusiness news for cannabis entrepreneurs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nRead More: <a href=\"https:\/\/mjbizdaily.com\/maine-panel-signs-off-rewrite-recreational-cannabis-law\/\" target=\"_blank\">Maine panel signs off on rewrite of recreational cannabis law<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maine\u2019s recreational marijuana law underwent a rewrite by a legislative committee\u00a0this week that could spell major changes for the program, including an increased tax rate and a two-year residency requirement to own a rec shop. But Maine Gov. Paul LePage hasn\u2019t expressed much enthusiasm about adult-use marijuana, and committee members<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2017\/09\/29\/maine-panel-signs-off-on-rewrite-of-recreational-cannabis-law\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,5,172,844,1201,1837],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19843"}],"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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19843"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19844,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19843\/revisions\/19844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}