{"id":42345,"date":"2014-01-30T22:06:09","date_gmt":"2014-01-30T22:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/bbc_magazine-us_marijuana_laws_will_records_be_wiped_clean\/"},"modified":"2014-01-30T22:06:09","modified_gmt":"2014-01-30T22:06:09","slug":"bbc_magazine-us_marijuana_laws_will_records_be_wiped_clean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=42345","title":{"rendered":"BBC Magazine&#8211;US marijuana laws: Will records be wiped clean?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Moves across the US to legalise marijuana have been greeted by reformers as heralding the end of the &#8220;war on drugs&#8221;. But what happens to people convicted of offences that no longer exist? And will the records of those arrested now be wiped clean?<\/p>\n<p>This is a big year for American pot smokers. Business has been brisk at shops in Colorado where, for the first time, people can buy marijuana to smoke purely for pleasure. Stores in Washington state are set to open in a few months and others may follow, as authorities eye a new source of tax dollars from a policy that now has broad popular support.<\/p>\n<p>Yet as the momentum for reform has gathered pace, one issue has largely been brushed aside &#8211; the fate of those arrested in the past.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/magazine-25832120\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Moves across the US to legalise marijuana have been greeted by reformers as heralding the end of the &#8220;war on drugs&#8221;. But what happens to people convicted of offences that no longer exist? And will the records of those arrested<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=42345\">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":[39,40,50,209,99,133,114,151,619],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-americau-s-a","category-drugsdrug-addiction","category-history","category-law-legal-issues","category-politics-in-general","category-state-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42345","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=42345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42345\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}