{"id":2399,"date":"2018-12-18T14:24:20","date_gmt":"2018-12-18T14:24:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/?p=2399"},"modified":"2018-12-18T14:24:20","modified_gmt":"2018-12-18T14:24:20","slug":"de-prohibition-on-the-east-coast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/?p=2399","title":{"rendered":"De-prohibition on the East Coast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After so many years of successful legalization in the West, I&#8217;m baffled by the approaches seen in the East:<\/p>\n<p><strong>New York<\/strong>, Governor Andrew Cuomo: &#8220;We will end the disproportionate criminalization of one race over another by regulating, legalizing and taxing the adult use of recreational marijuana.&#8221; (December 17, 2018).<\/p>\n<p><strong>New Hampshire<\/strong>, Governor Chris Sununu (from Weed News): &#8220;Gov. Chris Sununu came out swinging against the effort to legalize marijuana Friday, calling it one of the biggest policy fights for his administration next year and urging members of a prominent state drug and alcohol commission to rally against its passage.&#8221; (December 14, 2018).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rhode Island<\/strong>, State Representative: \u201cWith the reality of it being all around us, I think folks have to look at it a little harder now.\u201d (December 3, 2018).  This is the &#8220;everybody else is doing it&#8221; argument.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the electeds back East are having a reality problem&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After so many years of successful legalization in the West, I&#8217;m baffled by the approaches seen in the East: New York, Governor Andrew Cuomo: &#8220;We will end the disproportionate criminalization of one race over another by regulating, legalizing and taxing the adult use of recreational marijuana.&#8221; (December 17, 2018). New Hampshire, Governor Chris Sununu (from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2399"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2400,"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2399\/revisions\/2400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}