{"id":50,"date":"2008-10-29T02:05:13","date_gmt":"2008-10-29T07:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.majik.org\/cruxenrose\/?p=50"},"modified":"2008-10-29T02:05:13","modified_gmt":"2008-10-29T07:05:13","slug":"federal-decrim-bill-for-pot-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.majik.org\/cruxenrose\/federal-decrim-bill-for-pot-announced\/","title":{"rendered":"Federal Decrim Bill for Pot announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time in nearly 25 years, NORML is spearheading a campaign in Congress to end the federal prohibition of marijuana. Congress created cannabis prohibition, and the courts say time and again to reformers: \u2018Congress is the place to change marijuana laws.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Bi-Partisan Support in Congress for Reform<br \/>\nTo wage this long-overdue effort, NORML has teamed up with two of our closest Congressional allies: Democrat Congressman Barney Frank from Massachusetts and Republican Congressman Ron Paul of Texas.\u00a0 Over the past several months I have worked closely with these courageous Representatives to draft legislation that would strip the federal government of its authority to enforce marijuana possession laws.\u00a0 This legislation is now pending before Congress as House Bill HR 5843, an \u2018Act to Remove Federal Penalties for Personal Use of Marijuana by Responsible Adults.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Yes indeed, for the first time in more than two decades, we have legislation in Congress that, if enacted, would end the federal prosecution of adult marijuana consumers!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time in nearly 25 years, NORML is spearheading a campaign in Congress to end the federal prohibition of marijuana. Congress created cannabis prohibition, and the courts say time and again to reformers: \u2018Congress is the place to change marijuana laws.\u2019 Bi-Partisan Support in Congress for Reform To wage this long-overdue effort, NORML [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-seekers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.majik.org\/cruxenrose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.majik.org\/cruxenrose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.majik.org\/cruxenrose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.majik.org\/cruxenrose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.majik.org\/cruxenrose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.majik.org\/cruxenrose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51,"href":"https:\/\/www.majik.org\/cruxenrose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions\/51"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.majik.org\/cruxenrose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.majik.org\/cruxenrose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.majik.org\/cruxenrose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}