{"id":2633,"date":"2020-02-13T13:27:02","date_gmt":"2020-02-13T13:27:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/?p=2633"},"modified":"2020-02-13T13:27:02","modified_gmt":"2020-02-13T13:27:02","slug":"new-mexico-pot-legalization-stopped","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/?p=2633","title":{"rendered":"New Mexico pot legalization stopped"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Late last night the Senate Judiciary Committee killed the legalization bill, despite overwhelming support in both political and non-political groups.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Reasons given were that the bill didn&#8217;t do enough to &#8220;keep cannabis out of the hands of children&#8221; and &#8220;didn&#8217;t do enough to address impaired driving&#8221;. The NM bill was about as thorough and proven on these issues as any state in the union, and was as comprehensive as current experience elsewhere demonstrates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>New Mexico has one of the least transparent legislative systems I&#8217;ve seen, so it&#8217;s going to take a day or two for the details to become available.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I do not understand why lawmakers prefer the loosy-goosy medical laws over the much more robust adult use laws that other states have and can show how they work in real life. By the time a bill gets passed, the existing medical program will be pretty much out of control.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Late last night the Senate Judiciary Committee killed the legalization bill, despite overwhelming support in both political and non-political groups. Reasons given were that the bill didn&#8217;t do enough to &#8220;keep cannabis out of the hands of children&#8221; and &#8220;didn&#8217;t do enough to address impaired driving&#8221;. The NM bill was about as thorough and proven [&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-2633","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\/2633","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=2633"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2634,"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2633\/revisions\/2634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}