{"id":5199,"date":"2017-06-23T09:30:44","date_gmt":"2017-06-23T13:30:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/?p=5199"},"modified":"2017-06-23T09:16:50","modified_gmt":"2017-06-23T13:16:50","slug":"kill-the-houses-cannabis-bill-in-reconciliation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/2017\/06\/23\/kill-the-houses-cannabis-bill-in-reconciliation\/","title":{"rendered":"Kill The House&#8217;s Cannabis Bill in Reconciliation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Massachusetts House approved its <a href=\"https:\/\/malegislature.gov\/Bills\/190\/H3768\">repeal and rewrite of Question 4 legalizing Cannabis<\/a>. \u00a0You can <a href=\"https:\/\/www.leafly.com\/news\/politics\/massachusetts-house-passes-controversial-cannabis-bill-setting-showdown\">find how your legislator<\/a> voted at the end of this post.<\/p>\n<p>Differences between the House bill and Question 4 include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span>sharply raise total pot taxes to a mandatory 28 percent, from a maximum of 12 percent in the ballot question;<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>give municipal officials, instead of local voters, the power to ban cannabis shops and farms from their communities.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Senate approved its bill on Thursday, which used the Question 4 language and did not change the tax on Cannabis or remove citizen control over banning sale or production of Cannabis. \u00a0MassCANN\/NORML is <a href=\"http:\/\/masscann.org\/law\/rally-at-the-statehouse-steps-wednesday-10am\/\">urging voters to support the Senate Bill<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The House and Senate will need to reconcile their bills by their self-imposed deadline of June 30th.<\/p>\n<p>Today, please find your <a href=\"https:\/\/malegislature.gov\/Search\/FindMyLegislator\">House legislator&#8217;s contact info<\/a> and urge them to pressure the conference committee to adopt the Senate&#8217;s Bill. \u00a0If you can, please attend tonight&#8217;s 7:30pm <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/1624725390873881\">Milford Freedom Rally for Sensible Marijuana Regulation<\/a>,\u00a0Draper Park, Milford, MA 01757.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/HouseTraitorsToQuestion4.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/HouseTraitorsToQuestion4.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"671\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-5200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/HouseTraitorsToQuestion4.png 859w, https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/HouseTraitorsToQuestion4-268x300.png 268w, https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/HouseTraitorsToQuestion4-768x858.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Massachusetts House approved its repeal and rewrite of Question 4 legalizing Cannabis. \u00a0You can find how your legislator voted at the end&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2836,"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-5199","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\/2014\/06\/statehouse.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1W8mg-1lR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5199","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5199"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5201,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5199\/revisions\/5201"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}