{"id":8903,"date":"2019-12-18T17:56:19","date_gmt":"2019-12-18T17:56:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thecannabist.co\/2019\/12\/18\/california-agency-recommends-major-overhaul-to-states-cannabis-taxes\/119989\/"},"modified":"2019-12-18T17:56:19","modified_gmt":"2019-12-18T17:56:19","slug":"california-agency-recommends-major-overhaul-to-states-cannabis-taxes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/california-agency-recommends-major-overhaul-to-states-cannabis-taxes\/","title":{"rendered":"California agency recommends major overhaul to state&#8217;s cannabis taxes"},"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\/california-agency-recommends-major-overhaul-to-states-cannabis-taxes\/\" send=\"true\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div><div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecannabist.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/OCR-L-DOUBLEDIP-0308-PB-06-1-560x388.jpg\"><img src=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/california-agency-recommends-major-overhaul-to-states-cannabis-taxes.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div><img src=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/california-agency-recommends-major-overhaul-to-states-cannabis-taxes-2.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"large-10 large-centered small-12 columns\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecannabist.co\/2019\/12\/18\/california-agency-recommends-major-overhaul-to-states-cannabis-taxes\/119989\/#comments-anchor\"><span class=\"spot-im-replies-count\" data-post-id=\"119989\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>California\u2019s struggling cannabis industry didn\u2019t get the recommendation many hoped for \u2014 a call to sharply lower the industry\u2019s tax rate \u2014 but a long-awaited state report did suggest a marijuana tax overhaul.<\/p>\n<p>The report from California\u2019s nonpartisan Legislative Analyst Office, released Tuesday, Dec. 17, says lawmakers should ditch the way the state currently taxes marijuana and, instead, tax cannabis at different rates based on its potency. Such a tax structure, the report said, would result in stable revenue and discourage cannabis abuse.<\/p>\n<p>The report \u2014 the first of its kind since voters legalized cannabis three years earlier \u2014 also recommends California quit making licensed cultivators pay a tax based on the weight of marijuana they grow.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.times-standard.com\/2019\/12\/18\/california-agency-recommends-major-overhaul-to-states-cannabis-taxes\/\">Read the rest of this story on Times-Standard.com.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!-- .row --> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>California\u2019s struggling cannabis industry didn\u2019t get the recommendation many hoped for \u2014 a call to sharply lower the industry\u2019s tax rate \u2014 but a long-awaited state report did suggest a marijuana tax overhaul. The report from California\u2019s nonpartisan Legislative Analyst Office, released Tuesday, Dec. 17, says lawmakers should ditch the way the state currently taxes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5062,8226,9,441,1,3,61,1736],"tags":[5063,8227,3015],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8903"}],"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=8903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8903\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}