{"id":42294,"date":"2014-01-28T02:11:41","date_gmt":"2014-01-28T02:11:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/ny_times_with_marijuana_having_become_legal_in_some_states_localities_begin\/"},"modified":"2014-01-28T02:11:41","modified_gmt":"2014-01-28T02:11:41","slug":"ny_times_with_marijuana_having_become_legal_in_some_states_localities_begin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=42294","title":{"rendered":"(NY Times) With Marijuana having become Legal in some States, Localities Begin to Just Say No"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThis is not about the adult being able to smoke a joint,\u201d\u009d said Mr. Sabet of Smart Approaches to Marijuana. \u201cIt\u2019s about widespread access, it\u2019s about changing the landscape of a neighborhood, it\u2019s about widespread promotion and advertising, and it\u2019s about youth access.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Supporters of legalization say that because voters statewide approved a system guaranteeing adults access to legal marijuana, they will push state regulators and lawmakers to meet that mandate, possibly by pushing for penalties against local governments that enact bans.<\/p>\n<p>But Dave Ettl, a Yakima City Council member who voted for the ban, said he was willing to risk penalties, saying he considered the promised tax revenues from marijuana sales tainted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s some money that\u2019s not worth getting,\u201d\u009d he said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/01\/27\/us\/cannabis-legal-localities-begin-to-just-say-no.html?_r=0\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThis is not about the adult being able to smoke a joint,\u201d\u009d said Mr. Sabet of Smart Approaches to Marijuana. \u201cIt\u2019s about widespread access, it\u2019s about changing the landscape of a neighborhood, it\u2019s about widespread promotion and advertising, and it\u2019s<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=42294\">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":[39,40,50,209,101,615,582,99,149,168,104,114,98,151,619,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-americau-s-a","category-children","category-city-government","category-consumerconsumer-spending","category-drugsdrug-addiction","category-economy","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-health-medicine","category-law-legal-issues","category-marriage-family","category-politics-in-general","category-state-government","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42294","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=42294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42294\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}