{"id":3143,"date":"2013-03-04T11:08:39","date_gmt":"2013-03-04T16:08:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/?p=3143"},"modified":"2013-03-04T11:08:39","modified_gmt":"2013-03-04T16:08:39","slug":"marijuana-legalization-may-be-unstoppable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2013\/03\/marijuana-legalization-may-be-unstoppable\/","title":{"rendered":"Marijuana Legalization May Be Unstoppable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/pot-weed.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3013\" alt=\"pot-weed\" src=\"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/pot-weed.jpg\" width=\"259\" height=\"194\" srcset=\"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/pot-weed.jpg 259w, http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/pot-weed-150x112.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 259px) 100vw, 259px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, US Attorney General Eric Holder told America to expect a decision &#8220;soon&#8221; on how he&#8217;ll respond to the recent legalization of pot by Colorado and Washington state. To which the rest of the country has basically said, &#8220;Whatever, dude.&#8221; The same day, legislative committees in New Mexico and Hawaii approved bills to decriminalize marijuana possession and Oregon lawmakers introduced a legalization bill. Yesterday, Rhode Island legislators held a hearing on a bill to\u2014surprise!\u2014legalize and tax marijuana.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE:\u00a0<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/mojo\/2013\/02\/new-polls-and-votes-suggest-marijuana-legalization-unstoppable\">&gt;Marijuana Legalization May Be Unstoppable | Mother Jones<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday, US Attorney General Eric Holder told America to expect a decision &#8220;soon&#8221; on how he&#8217;ll respond to the recent legalization of pot by Colorado and Washington state. To which the rest of the country has basically said, &#8220;Whatever, dude.&#8221; The same day, legislative committees in New Mexico and Hawaii approved bills to decriminalize&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17,22,7],"tags":[1655,1579],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3143"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3143"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3144,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3143\/revisions\/3144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}