{"id":472,"date":"2010-11-05T11:55:43","date_gmt":"2010-11-05T11:55:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/somewhatnerdy.com\/?p=472"},"modified":"2011-02-13T23:40:56","modified_gmt":"2011-02-13T23:40:56","slug":"a-nation-governed-for-us-by-us-cannabis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/somewhatnerdy.com\/home\/a-nation-governed-for-us-by-us-cannabis\/","title":{"rendered":"A Nation Governed for Us, By Us, Cannabis?"},"content":{"rendered":"

On November, 2nd 2010 the state of California entertained the Regulate, Control & Tax Cannabis Act, also known as Proposition 19, at the ballot box.\u00a0 If passed, the act would have legalized marijuana and relied on local governments to regulate the familiarly legislated stipulations, likened best to those of alcohol.\u00a0 For better or worse, a majority of the people chose not to accept the terms of Prop 19 with a vote of 53.9% voting ‘No.’\u00a0 Pure speculation as to how this act could possibly have failed range from conspiracy to closed minded bigotry. These mostly being cooked up by those disappointed by the act’s failure, some consider it more likely the act failed due to the unreasonable workplace protections for cannabis users or the inflated and biased projections of revenue to be produced in taxes.\u00a0 Whatever the reasons for this act’s introduction to the garbage bin, supporters remain positive and look to the small margin of defeat as a huge leap in progress towards ‘their cause.’\u00a0 In any case, the process used for Proposition 19 is a wonderful exhibition of constitutionally sound legislation as it disregards policy from most every federal agency in existence. The ATF, FDA, and IRS would all have to take issue with one aspect or another of its legalization, but California isn’t concerned with federal agencies.\u00a0 They are concerned with constitutional right, and they have my applause.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On November, 2nd 2010 the state of California entertained the Regulate, Control & Tax Cannabis Act, also known as Proposition 19, at the ballot box.\u00a0 … <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"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":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[18,38],"class_list":["post-472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-untamedbeast","tag-prop-19","latest_post"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p35LLI-7C","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/somewhatnerdy.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/somewhatnerdy.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/somewhatnerdy.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/somewhatnerdy.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/somewhatnerdy.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=472"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/somewhatnerdy.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2198,"href":"https:\/\/somewhatnerdy.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472\/revisions\/2198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/somewhatnerdy.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/somewhatnerdy.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/somewhatnerdy.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}