{"id":35768,"date":"2012-11-20T16:29:02","date_gmt":"2012-11-20T16:29:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/bbc_magazine_marijuana_legalisation_in_the_us_five_burning_questions\/"},"modified":"2012-11-20T16:29:02","modified_gmt":"2012-11-20T16:29:02","slug":"bbc_magazine_marijuana_legalisation_in_the_us_five_burning_questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=35768","title":{"rendered":"(BBC Magazine) Marijuana legalisation in the US: Five burning questions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This month, two US states voted to legalise, regulate and tax marijuana. From advertising and marketing to drugged-driving enforcement, we ask what&#8217;s ahead.<\/p>\n<p>The 6 November votes in Colorado and Washington left a lot of marijuana users happy and a lot of police officers nervous. And they set the two states up for a confrontation with the federal government, as marijuana is still illegal under federal law.<\/p>\n<p>Marijuana is the most widely used illicit drug in the US. Legalisation advocates say the recent votes mark the beginning of the end of the drug&#8217;s prohibition.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/magazine-20346431\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This month, two US states voted to legalise, regulate and tax marijuana. From advertising and marketing to drugged-driving enforcement, we ask what&#8217;s ahead. The 6 November votes in Colorado and Washington left a lot of marijuana users happy and a<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=35768\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,99,104,114,151,619],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-drugsdrug-addiction","category-health-medicine","category-law-legal-issues","category-politics-in-general","category-state-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35768\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}