{"id":504,"date":"2018-04-21T07:22:03","date_gmt":"2018-04-21T07:22:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cannabiskenya.com\/legitweed\/?p=504"},"modified":"2018-04-21T07:22:03","modified_gmt":"2018-04-21T07:22:03","slug":"schumer-to-introduce-bill-to-decriminalize-marijuana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannabiskenya.com\/legitweed\/schumer-to-introduce-bill-to-decriminalize-marijuana\/","title":{"rendered":"Schumer To Introduce Bill To Decriminalize Marijuana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By <strong>Christiano Lima<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2018\/04\/19\/chuck-schumer-decriminalize-marijuana-537828\" target=\"_blank\">Politico<\/a><\/p>\n<p>U.S. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) said on Thursday that he would introduce legislation to decriminalize marijuana at the federal level, marking a significant shift in policy for the Democratic leader and lending the movement to lower government barriers to the drug a powerful ally.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I believe that the States should continue to be the labs of democracy when it comes to recreational &#038; medical marijuana,&#8221; Schumer tweeted in January. &#8220;Jeff, this is one place where states&#8217; rights work. Let each state decide.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The top congressional Democrat told VICE News in an interview set to air Thursday night that legislation to increase access to marijuana is &#8220;long overdue&#8221; and that far &#8220;too many people&#8221; have been affected by the government&#8217;s crackdown on the drug. [ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2018\/04\/19\/chuck-schumer-decriminalize-marijuana-537828\" target=\"_blank\">READ MORE<\/a> ]<\/p>\n<p><u>NOTES<\/u>: <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Legal_history_of_cannabis_in_the_United_States\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Legal history of cannabis in the United States<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Christiano Lima, Politico U.S. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) said on Thursday that he would introduce legislation to decriminalize marijuana at the federal level, marking a significant shift in policy for the Democratic leader and lending the movement to lower government barriers to the drug a powerful ally. &#8220;I believe that the States &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cannabiskenya.com\/legitweed\/schumer-to-introduce-bill-to-decriminalize-marijuana\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Schumer To Introduce Bill To Decriminalize Marijuana&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":505,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[50,49,47,48],"class_list":["post-504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external-news-articles","category-guest-articles","tag-cannabis-usa","tag-decriminalize-cannabis","tag-decriminalize-marijuana","tag-sen-chuck-schumer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiskenya.com\/legitweed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiskenya.com\/legitweed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiskenya.com\/legitweed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiskenya.com\/legitweed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiskenya.com\/legitweed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiskenya.com\/legitweed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiskenya.com\/legitweed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiskenya.com\/legitweed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiskenya.com\/legitweed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiskenya.com\/legitweed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}