{"id":62026,"date":"2017-02-01T06:00:57","date_gmt":"2017-02-01T12:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=62026"},"modified":"2017-01-31T15:32:47","modified_gmt":"2017-01-31T21:32:47","slug":"in-the-words-of-jack-tomczak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=62026","title":{"rendered":"In The Words Of Jack Tomczak&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;only the state of Minnesota could figure out a way to\u00a0<em>lose money\u00a0<\/em>selling drugs.<\/p>\n<p>But <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mprnews.org\/story\/2017\/01\/30\/minnesotas-medical-marijuana-program-needs-more-money\">they pulled it off<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The state&#8217;s manufacturers combined to lose more than $5 million in the first year of legal medical marijuana sales in 2015. And patient count hasn&#8217;t met projections, exacerbating high prescription costs for patients that the two companies who cultivate and sell medication have only recently begun to address with modest price decreases.<\/p>\n<p>The Office of Medical Cannabis&#8217; request for more than $500,000 over the next two years is just a fraction of the $40 billion-plus budget Minnesota&#8217;s Legislature will assemble this year.<\/p>\n<p>But state regulators say that money is critical to cover the higher-than-expected costs for maintenance of their around-the-clock patient registry and the costs of performing 120 inspections or more each year.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Of\u00a0<em>course\u00a0<\/em>it does.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;only the state of Minnesota could figure out a way to\u00a0lose money\u00a0selling drugs. But they pulled it off: The state&#8217;s manufacturers combined to lose more than $5 million in the first year of legal medical marijuana sales in 2015. And patient count hasn&#8217;t met projections, exacerbating high prescription costs for patients that the two companies [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-minnesota-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62026"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62027,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62026\/revisions\/62027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}