{"id":9343,"date":"2021-03-31T22:16:53","date_gmt":"2021-03-31T22:16:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thecannabist.co\/2021\/03\/31\/new-york-legalizes-pot\/135215\/"},"modified":"2021-03-31T22:16:53","modified_gmt":"2021-03-31T22:16:53","slug":"new-york-legalizes-pot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/new-york-legalizes-pot\/","title":{"rendered":"New York legalizes pot"},"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\/new-york-legalizes-pot\/\" 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\/2021\/03\/AP21084156966155-560x368.jpg\"><img src=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/new-york-legalizes-pot.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div><img src=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/new-york-legalizes-pot-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\/2021\/03\/31\/new-york-legalizes-pot\/135215\/#comments-anchor\"><span class=\"spot-im-replies-count\" data-post-id=\"135215\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>New York adults over the age of 21 can now possess and use marijuana \u2014 even in public \u2014 under a legalization bill signed Wednesday by Gov. Andrew Cuomo, though legal sales of recreational-use cannabis won\u2019t start for an estimated 18 months until regulations are set.<\/p>\n<p>Passed after several years of stalled efforts, the measure makes New York the 16th state to legalize adult use of the drug, though South Dakota\u2019s measure is in legal limbo.<\/p>\n<p>New York becomes the second-most populous state, after California, to legalize recreational marijuana. Legalization backers hope the Empire State will add momentum and set an example with its efforts to redress the inequities of a system that has locked up people of color for marijuana offenses at disproportionate rates.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonherald.com\/2021\/03\/31\/new-york-legalizes-pot\/\">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>New York adults over the age of 21 can now possess and use marijuana \u2014 even in public \u2014 under a legalization bill signed Wednesday by Gov. Andrew Cuomo, though legal sales of recreational-use cannabis won\u2019t start for an estimated 18 months until regulations are set. Passed after several years of stalled efforts, the measure [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1212,5062,8232,9,1407,1,3,61,1736],"tags":[3782,5063,8234,3976],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9343"}],"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=9343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9343\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}