{"id":5195,"date":"2017-06-21T07:30:49","date_gmt":"2017-06-21T11:30:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/?p=5195"},"modified":"2017-06-20T16:01:03","modified_gmt":"2017-06-20T20:01:03","slug":"masscann-rally-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/2017\/06\/21\/masscann-rally-today\/","title":{"rendered":"MassCANN Rally Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today, MassCANN\/NORML will hold a rally at 10am in front of the State House to urge legislators\u00a0to oppose <a data-cke-saved-href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/metro\/2017\/06\/19\/pot-advocates-back-senate-changes-legalization-law\/MQCvOkztNqqpJF0UoxRefJ\/story.html\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/metro\/2017\/06\/19\/pot-advocates-back-senate-changes-legalization-law\/MQCvOkztNqqpJF0UoxRefJ\/story.html\">the House bill to add further regulations on\u00a0cannabis<\/a>. The bill would:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>increase the tax to 28% on recreational sales and 21.75% on medical sales;<\/li>\n<li>require\u00a0everyone who wishes to work in the cannabis industry and everyone who applies for a license and everyone they associate with in the course of business to be investigated and fingerprinted with the information shared with the FBI;<\/li>\n<li>grant\u00a0local elected officials unilateral ability to limit or ban marijuana retail stores, cultivation facilities, testing hubs, and manufacturing sites for marijuana-infused products, instead of requiring a citizen vote;<\/li>\n<li>make\u00a0the personal possession of hemp seeds and cultivation of hemp for personal use a crime.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We urge you to come out to this rally today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, MassCANN\/NORML will hold a rally at 10am in front of the State House to urge legislators\u00a0to oppose the House bill to add&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-5195","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-1lN","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5195","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=5195"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5196,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5195\/revisions\/5196"}],"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=5195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}