{"id":12025,"date":"2016-08-13T13:04:41","date_gmt":"2016-08-13T13:04:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/?p=12025"},"modified":"2016-09-21T08:37:58","modified_gmt":"2016-09-21T08:37:58","slug":"amid-effort-to-limit-pot-potency-industry-strikes-back-with-well-funded-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/2016\/08\/amid-effort-to-limit-pot-potency-industry-strikes-back-with-well-funded-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"Amid effort to limit pot potency, industry strikes back with well-funded campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new coalition funded by the cannabis industry has formed in Colorado to fight a ballot measure that some say would crush the state\u2019s billion-dollar marijuana industry.<\/p>\n<p>The Colorado Health Research Council (CHRC) announced its formation Thursday to oppose Amendment 139, a constitutional amendment that would limit the THC-potency of marijuana and pot products at 16 percent. The average potency of Colorado pot products is already higher \u2014 17.1 percent for cannabis flower and 62.1 percent for marijuana extracts, according to a state study.<\/p>\n<p>The amendment also would mandate warnings printed on pot packaging that say marijuana\u2019s health risks include \u201cpermanent loss of brain abilities\u201d and \u201cbirth defects and reduced brain development.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>If passed by voters, the amendment \u201cwould have devastating unintended consequences to the citizens and economy of Colorado,\u201d according to CHRC media materials, which add that 80 percent of the pot products on shelves now would be considered illegal under the measure.<\/p>\n<p><em>Source:\u00a0 http:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/2016\/06\/30\/pot-potency-campaign<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new coalition funded by the cannabis industry has formed in Colorado to fight a ballot measure that some say would crush the state\u2019s billion-dollar marijuana industry. The Colorado Health Research Council (CHRC) announced its formation Thursday to oppose Amendment 139, a constitutional amendment that would limit the THC-potency of marijuana and pot products at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cannabis-marijuana","category-global-drug-legalisation-efforts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12025\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}