{"id":7697,"date":"2017-09-05T17:50:10","date_gmt":"2017-09-05T17:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.denverpost.com?p=2776443&amp;preview_id=2776443"},"modified":"2017-09-05T17:50:10","modified_gmt":"2017-09-05T17:50:10","slug":"in-one-record-breaking-month-alaska-sold-more-weed-than-3-month-average","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/in-one-record-breaking-month-alaska-sold-more-weed-than-3-month-average\/","title":{"rendered":"In one record-breaking month, Alaska sold more weed than 3 month average"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0 5px 5px;float:right;height:100px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/in-one-record-breaking-month-alaska-sold-more-weed-than-3-month-average\/\" send=\"true\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div><div class=\"media_block\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"large-10 large-centered small-12 columns\">\n<div class=\"entry-meta-date\">Published: Sep 5, 2017, 10:16 am \u2022 Updated: Sep 5, 2017, 1:41 pm<span class=\"single-comments-link\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"byline\">By <span class=\"author\"><a class=\"url fn n\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thecannabist.co\/author\/ap\/\" rel=\"author\">The Associated Press<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>JUNEAU, Alaska \u2014 Alaska made nearly $600,000 in July on marijuana tax, which is equal to about 33 percent of the total marijuana tax revenue brought in last fiscal year.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2gz4YSS\">Juneau Empire reported<\/a> Sunday that July\u2019s figures are the highest to date for Alaska\u2019s young marijuana industry, which began selling over the counter last year in October. Alaska\u2019s last fiscal year that ended June 30 saw $1.7 million from the marijuana industry.<\/p>\n<p>The state reported 612 pounds (280 kilograms) of marijuana bud and 369 pounds (170 kilograms) of stems or leaves were sold in July.<\/p>\n<p>The state collects $50 per ounce of bud and $15 per ounce for trimmings.<br \/>Excise tax supervisor Kalley Mazzei expects sales to continue increasing.<\/p>\n<p><em>Information from: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\">Juneau Empire<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!-- .row --> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><\/div>\n<p>Alaska made nearly $600,000 in July on marijuana tax, which is equal to about 33 percent of the total marijuana tax revenue brought in last fiscal year. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[407,77,9,5019,1,3,61,1736],"tags":[2985,2655,5022],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7697"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7697\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}