{"id":4952,"date":"2016-12-15T10:00:48","date_gmt":"2016-12-15T15:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/?p=4952"},"modified":"2016-12-15T09:27:12","modified_gmt":"2016-12-15T14:27:12","slug":"today-come-out-to-celebrate-cannabis-legalization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/2016\/12\/15\/today-come-out-to-celebrate-cannabis-legalization\/","title":{"rendered":"Today, come out to celebrate Cannabis legalization"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cannabis is legal today!<\/p>\n<p>Thank you to the 1.7 million voters who approved Question 4 to legalize Cannabis.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you and congratulations to the thousands of volunteers who put in years of work to make this day possible. A decade ago, getting cannabis legalized was only a dream, but today it is a reality because of the tremendous work of so many!<\/p>\n<p>The prohibitionists are still active, whether they are looking at holding up implementation of the law or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bostonherald.com\/news\/local_politics\/2016\/12\/senate_president_stan_rosenberg_eyes_raising_pot_smoking_age_to_25?utm_source=facebook&amp;utm_medium=socialflow\" target=\"_blank\">threatening to raise the age for legal purchase from 21 to 25<\/a>. Unfortunately the struggle will continue, but we can still be happy with this day and the progress we have made in ending the Drug War.<\/p>\n<p>Today from 3 p.m. to 4:20 p.m. pro-cannabis groups have invited people to attend an open mic at the State House steps to celebrate legalization of Cannabis in Massachusetts. We hope you will make it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cannabis is legal today! Thank you to the 1.7 million voters who approved Question 4 to legalize Cannabis. Thank you and congratulations to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":1934,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[48,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-end-the-drug-war","category-slider"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/cannabis-field.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1W8mg-1hS","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4952"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4954,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4952\/revisions\/4954"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}