{"id":9487,"date":"2022-05-27T07:32:26","date_gmt":"2022-05-27T07:32:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thecannabist.co\/2022\/05\/27\/massachusetts-lawmakers-looking-to-strike-unconstitutional-controlled-substances-act\/135748\/"},"modified":"2022-05-27T07:32:26","modified_gmt":"2022-05-27T07:32:26","slug":"massachusetts-lawmakers-looking-to-strike-unconstitutional-controlled-substances-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/massachusetts-lawmakers-looking-to-strike-unconstitutional-controlled-substances-act\/","title":{"rendered":"Massachusetts lawmakers looking to strike unconstitutional Controlled Substances Act"},"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\/massachusetts-lawmakers-looking-to-strike-unconstitutional-controlled-substances-act\/\" 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\/2022\/05\/LEGAL_MARIJUANA_74189-560x373.jpg\"><img src=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/massachusetts-lawmakers-looking-to-strike-unconstitutional-controlled-substances-act.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div><img src=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/massachusetts-lawmakers-looking-to-strike-unconstitutional-controlled-substances-act-2.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"large-10 large-centered small-12 columns\">\n<div class=\"yarpp yarpp-related yarpp-related-website yarpp-template-yarpp-template-inarticle-right\">\n<aside class=\"article-related right\">\n<h3>Related Articles<\/h3>\n<\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<p>Lawmakers are about to weed out a law that\u2019s overgrown its usefulness.<\/p>\n<p>A seldom used and apparently unconstitutional part of the General Laws may soon be stricken, if an outside section of the state Senate\u2019s fiscal 2023 budgets makes it past muster during Tuesday\u2019s debate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis court concluded that the assessment of the tax on essentially the same activity for which a dealer had received criminal sanctions was punishment prohibited by principles of double jeopardy,\u201d the Supreme Judicial Court wrote in 1998, upholding a tax board\u2019s decision to abate a dealer\u2019s tax liability for their illegal drugs.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonherald.com\/2022\/05\/23\/bhr-l-outsidesection-0524\/\">Read the rest of this story on BostonHerald.com.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Related Articles Lawmakers are about to weed out a law that\u2019s overgrown its usefulness. A seldom used and apparently unconstitutional part of the General Laws may soon be stricken, if an outside section of the state Senate\u2019s fiscal 2023 budgets makes it past muster during Tuesday\u2019s debate. \u201cThis court concluded that the assessment of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8296,528,8232,9,441,1,3,61,1736],"tags":[8297,3102,8234,3015],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9487"}],"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=9487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9487\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}