{"id":5226,"date":"2017-07-14T09:00:12","date_gmt":"2017-07-14T13:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/?p=5226"},"modified":"2017-07-12T22:10:05","modified_gmt":"2017-07-13T02:10:05","slug":"keep-the-legislature-from-harming-voter-approved-cannabis-legalization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/2017\/07\/14\/keep-the-legislature-from-harming-voter-approved-cannabis-legalization\/","title":{"rendered":"Keep the legislature from harming voter-approved Cannabis legalization"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thankfully, the Massachusetts Senate hasn&#8217;t yet buckled to the House&#8217;s\u00a0<a data-cke-saved-href=\"https:\/\/malegislature.gov\/Bills\/190\/H3768\" href=\"https:\/\/malegislature.gov\/Bills\/190\/H3768\">repeal and rewrite of Question 4 legalizing Cannabis<\/a>\u00a0and the legislature is still settling on a single bill.<\/p>\n<p>The differences between the House bill and Question 4 include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>sharply raise total pot taxes to a mandatory 28 percent, from a maximum of 12 percent in the ballot question;<\/li>\n<li>give municipal officials, instead of local voters, the power to ban cannabis shops and farms from their communities.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>MassCANN\/NORML is<span>\u00a0<\/span><a data-cke-saved-href=\"http:\/\/masscann.org\/law\/rally-at-the-statehouse-steps-wednesday-10am\/\" href=\"http:\/\/masscann.org\/law\/rally-at-the-statehouse-steps-wednesday-10am\/\">urging voters to support the Senate Bill<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The legislature is back in session Wednesday. Please find your<span>\u00a0<\/span><a data-cke-saved-href=\"https:\/\/malegislature.gov\/Search\/FindMyLegislator\" href=\"https:\/\/malegislature.gov\/Search\/FindMyLegislator\">House and Senate legislators&#8217; contact info<\/a><span>\u00a0<\/span>and give them a call to urge them to pressure the conference committee to adopt the Senate&#8217;s Bill, or better, leave the text of\u00a0Question 4 alone. \u00a0Here is how the House voted:<\/p>\n<p><a data-cke-saved-href=\"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/HouseTraitorsToQuestion4.png\" href=\"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/HouseTraitorsToQuestion4.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-5200\" height=\"671\" data-cke-saved-src=\"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/HouseTraitorsToQuestion4.png\" src=\"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/HouseTraitorsToQuestion4.png\" width=\"600\" 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>Thankfully, the Massachusetts Senate hasn&#8217;t yet buckled to the House&#8217;s\u00a0repeal and rewrite of Question 4 legalizing Cannabis\u00a0and the legislature is still settling on&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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-5226","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-1mi","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5226","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=5226"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5228,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5226\/revisions\/5228"}],"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=5226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}