{"id":8915,"date":"2020-02-06T14:33:20","date_gmt":"2020-02-06T14:33:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thecannabist.co\/2020\/02\/06\/bill-would-scrutinize-deals-between-communities-pot-firms\/131745\/"},"modified":"2020-02-06T14:33:20","modified_gmt":"2020-02-06T14:33:20","slug":"bill-would-scrutinize-deals-between-communities-pot-firms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/bill-would-scrutinize-deals-between-communities-pot-firms\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill would scrutinize deals between communities, pot firms"},"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\/bill-would-scrutinize-deals-between-communities-pot-firms\/\" 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\/2020\/02\/Marijuana_Holiday_Advertising_71305-560x373.jpg\"><img src=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/bill-would-scrutinize-deals-between-communities-pot-firms.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div><img src=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/bill-would-scrutinize-deals-between-communities-pot-firms-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\/2020\/02\/06\/bill-would-scrutinize-deals-between-communities-pot-firms\/131745\/#comments-anchor\"><span class=\"spot-im-replies-count\" data-post-id=\"131745\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>By STEVE LeBLANC<\/p>\n<p>BOSTON (AP) \u2014 Massachusetts House lawmakers approved a bill Wednesday that would tighten oversight of payments made by marijuana companies to the cities and towns that host them.<\/p>\n<p>The bill, which passed by a 121-33 vote, would give the state\u2019s Cannabis Control Commission the power to review, regulate and enforce \u201chost community agreements\u201d following criticism that some local officials have used the contracts to demand more money from companies than is allowed under state law.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonherald.com\/2020\/02\/05\/bill-would-scrutinize-deals-between-communities-pot-firms\/\">Read the rest of this story on BostonHerald.com.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!-- .row --> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By STEVE LeBLANC BOSTON (AP) \u2014 Massachusetts House lawmakers approved a bill Wednesday that would tighten oversight of payments made by marijuana companies to the cities and towns that host them. The bill, which passed by a 121-33 vote, would give the state\u2019s Cannabis Control Commission the power to review, regulate and enforce \u201chost community [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5062,8232,9,8242,1407,1,3,61,1736],"tags":[5063,8234,8243,3976],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8915"}],"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=8915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8915\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}