{"id":8210,"date":"2018-04-18T20:55:28","date_gmt":"2018-04-18T20:55:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/?p=3021868"},"modified":"2018-04-18T20:55:28","modified_gmt":"2018-04-18T20:55:28","slug":"no-colorado-mcdonalds-are-not-converting-playplaces-into-marijuana-lounges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/no-colorado-mcdonalds-are-not-converting-playplaces-into-marijuana-lounges\/","title":{"rendered":"No, Colorado McDonald\u2019s are not converting PlayPlaces into marijuana lounges"},"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\/no-colorado-mcdonalds-are-not-converting-playplaces-into-marijuana-lounges\/\" send=\"true\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div><div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"large-10 large-centered small-12 columns\">\n<p>DENVER \u2014 McDonald\u2019s PlayPlaces aren\u2019t becoming pot places, not even in Colorado, the first state with legal recreational marijuana sales.<\/p>\n<p>The fast-food company said there is no truth to a report on social media that 15 restaurants in the state have transformed or plan to transform play areas into pot-smoking centers.<\/p>\n<p>The Now 8 News site claimed each restaurant would have 15 pods where customers can smoke marijuana-filled joints, bongs or pipes without bothering others.<\/p>\n<p>McDonald\u2019s spokesman Khim Aday says he \u201ccan confirm 100 percent that this is not true.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Related: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecannabist.co\/2018\/02\/13\/marijuana-cigarettes-philip-morris-marlboro-cannabis\/98922\/\">No, Philip Morris isn\u2019t selling marijuana cigarettes<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>He said the false story has circulated since 2015. The story said two Denver restaurants had completed the conversion, while the other 13 were planning completion renovations by the end of 2015. Legal recreational pot sales in Colorado began in 2014.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>This is part of The Associated Press\u2019 ongoing effort to fact-check misinformation that is shared widely online, including work with Facebook to identify and reduce the circulation of false stories on the platform.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#013; &#013; <\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!-- .row --> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>McDonald\u2019s PlayPlaces aren\u2019t becoming pot places, not even in Colorado, the first state with legal recreational marijuana sales. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6811,910,7634,6813,77,5667,6858,9,5019,7621,7276,1,3,61,1736],"tags":[6816,3481,7635,6818,2655,5673,6860,5022,7623,7278],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8210"}],"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=8210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8210\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}