{"id":20920,"date":"2017-11-06T15:29:06","date_gmt":"2017-11-06T23:29:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2017\/11\/06\/maine-lawmakers-vote-to-sustain-govs-recreational-cannabis-veto\/"},"modified":"2017-11-07T00:39:47","modified_gmt":"2017-11-07T08:39:47","slug":"maine-lawmakers-vote-to-sustain-govs-recreational-cannabis-veto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2017\/11\/06\/maine-lawmakers-vote-to-sustain-govs-recreational-cannabis-veto\/","title":{"rendered":"Maine lawmakers vote to sustain gov\u2019s recreational cannabis veto"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>The Maine House of Representatives on Monday\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pressherald.com\/2017\/11\/06\/legislature-set-to-take-up-lepage-veto-of-recreational-marijuana\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">opted not to overturn<\/a>\u00a0the governor\u2019s\u00a0veto of a bill that would have implemented a recreational marijuana ballot measure approved by voters last year.<\/p>\n<p>Gov. Paul LePage wrote in a veto letter last week that he <a href=\"https:\/\/mjbizdaily.com\/maine-governor-vetoes-bill-regulate-recreational-cannabis-sales\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">torpedoed the bill<\/a> because it \u201csets unrealistic timelines for launching the market, fails to address shortcomings in the medical marijuana program, creates a confusing regulatory system and might not generate enough tax revenue to cover the cost of market implementation,\u201d the Press Herald reported.<\/p>\n<p>He also stressed that marijuana is still illegal at the<\/p>\n<p> &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/mjbizdaily.com\/maine-lawmakers-vote-sustain-governors-recreational-cannabis-veto\/\">Maine lawmakers vote to sustain gov\u2019s recreational cannabis veto<\/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-lawmakers-vote-sustain-governors-recreational-cannabis-veto\/\" target=\"_blank\">Maine lawmakers vote to sustain gov\u2019s recreational cannabis veto<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Maine House of Representatives on Monday\u00a0opted not to overturn\u00a0the governor\u2019s\u00a0veto of a bill that would have implemented a recreational marijuana ballot measure approved by voters last year. Gov. Paul LePage wrote in a veto letter last week that he torpedoed the bill because it \u201csets unrealistic timelines for launching<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2017\/11\/06\/maine-lawmakers-vote-to-sustain-govs-recreational-cannabis-veto\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,2109,2070,844,356,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20920"}],"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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20920"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20921,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20920\/revisions\/20921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}