{"id":12398,"date":"2015-04-17T09:00:41","date_gmt":"2015-04-17T13:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=12398"},"modified":"2015-04-17T08:21:45","modified_gmt":"2015-04-17T12:21:45","slug":"the-untapped-marijuana-market-pets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2015\/the-untapped-marijuana-market-pets\/","title":{"rendered":"The Untapped Marijuana Market: Pets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/041715_1216_TheUntapped1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"641\" height=\"361\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Alice Truong wrote about a customer segment that is often overlooked by the marijuana industry: pets.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Anecdotal evidence suggests that dogs respond well to the pain soothing effects of weed.<\/li>\n<li>This is backed up by scientific research which shows that mammals usually have cannabinoid receptors.<\/li>\n<li>However while some American states have medical marijuana laws, vets still can&#8217;t prescribe the drug.<\/li>\n<li>If this were changed then it could be a boost to the legal weed market which is expected to have $10 billion in sales by 2018.<\/li>\n<li>Some companies are working around the regulations. One company is unable to label its marijuana laced doggie treats as &#8216;organic&#8217; since that&#8217;s a federally regulated label. Instead its advertising promotes it as &#8220;organic-like&#8221;.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more about the business, its challenges, its future, and other details <a href=\"http:\/\/qz.com\/377887\/the-marijuana-industrys-newest-customers-are-sick-and-elderly-dogs\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Centives has some other fun coverage of pet perks <a href=\"http:\/\/www.centives.net\/S\/tag\/pet-perks\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/qz.com\/377887\/the-marijuana-industrys-newest-customers-are-sick-and-elderly-dogs\/\">Quartz<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alice Truong wrote about a customer segment that is often overlooked by the marijuana industry: pets. Anecdotal evidence suggests that dogs respond well to the pain soothing effects of weed. This is backed up by scientific research which shows that mammals usually have cannabinoid receptors. However while some American states have medical marijuana laws, vets [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12397,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[43],"class_list":["post-12398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin","tag-pet-perks"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/041715_1216_TheUntapped1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12398"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12401,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12398\/revisions\/12401"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}