{"id":24579,"date":"2016-11-29T16:59:43","date_gmt":"2016-11-29T21:59:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=24579"},"modified":"2016-11-29T16:59:43","modified_gmt":"2016-11-29T21:59:43","slug":"city-pulse-regulating-pot-city-wants-mandatory-home-inspections-for-high-energy-users","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=24579","title":{"rendered":"City Pulse: Regulating pot: City wants mandatory home inspections for high energy users"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>City Pulse: <a href=\"http:\/\/lansingcitypulse.com\/article-14043-regulating-pot.html\">Regulating pot: City wants mandatory home inspections for high energy users<\/a> by Todd Heywood:<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Lansing [MI] Mayor Virg Bernero\u2019s proposal aimed at regulating homegrown marijuana raises legal concerns and may even be unconstitutional, critics say.<\/p>\n<p>The ordinance the mayor has called for would require the city-owned Lansing Board of Water &#038; Light to monitor customers\u2019 monthly electrical usage and report those using more than 5,000 kilowatts a month to enforcement agencies.<\/p>\n<p>Use beyond that level would trigger home inspections by building inspectors and the fire marshal. If homeowners refuse, the city could seek court orders to enter their homes.<\/p>\n<p>Critics say the proposal goes too far. They believe it violates constitutional protections against unreasonable search and seizure and may also run afoul of state law regulating medical marijuana.<\/p>\n<p>In a press release Nov. 10, Bernero said city officials had \u201cseen a recent increase in safety issues\u201d related to medical marijuana growth. But he offered no details, and marijuana advocates said to their knowledge there has not been a rash of fires related to growing operations.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>City Pulse: Regulating pot: City wants mandatory home inspections for high energy users by Todd Heywood:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-administrative-search"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24579"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24580,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24579\/revisions\/24580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}