{"id":40328,"date":"2014-06-12T10:21:45","date_gmt":"2014-06-12T17:21:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=40328"},"modified":"2014-06-12T10:21:45","modified_gmt":"2014-06-12T17:21:45","slug":"weedland-inside-americas-marijuana-epicenter-and-how-pot-went-legit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2014\/06\/12\/weedland-inside-americas-marijuana-epicenter-and-how-pot-went-legit\/","title":{"rendered":"Weedland: Inside America&#8217;s Marijuana Epicenter and How Pot Went Legit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/download\/20140612Uprising\/2014_06_12_weedland.mp3\">Listen to this segment with Peter Hecht <\/a><\/li><\/ul><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/download\/20140612Uprising\/2014_06_12_uprising.mp3\">Listen to the entire program with Sonali Kolhatkar<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=50% src=\"\/home\/graphics\/peter_hecht.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>The California city of San Jose just passed a resolution severely restricting the locations of medical marijuana dispensaries. The 7-3 decision will affect nearly all of San Jose&#8217;s roughly 80 pot shops, requiring them to move into only a handful of &#8220;industrial&#8221; areas. The shop owners are up in arms, saying the resolution amounts to a ban. <\/p>\n<p>However, San Jose&#8217;s  move contradicts the general trend toward greater liberalization of marijuana, not just for medicinal purposes but for recreational use also. <\/p>\n<p>Today, cannabis is legally available for purchase and use in Colorado and Washington, while several other states have legalized medicinal use. The state-by-state laws are still in violation of federal law which considers marijuana an illegal narcotic. <\/p>\n<p>However, Attorney General Eric Holder has made statements clarifying that federal agencies like the DEA would not prioritize raids of marijuana growers as had happened a number of times under the Bush administration, and most dramatically in California. <\/p>\n<p>Today, marijuana is big business, and not restricted to providing pain relief for medical patients and the terminally ill. <\/p>\n<p><em>GUEST: Peter Hecht, award winning journalist who writes for the Sacramento Bee and McClatchy newspapers, has written a new book meticulously documenting California&#8217;s battle to legalize marijuana called Weedland: Inside America&#8217;s Marijuana Epicenter and How Pot Went Legit.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The California city of San Jose just passed a resolution severely restricting the locations of medical marijuana dispensaries. The 7-3 decision will affect nearly all of San Jose&#8217;s roughly 80 pot shops, requiring them to move into only a handful of &#8220;industrial&#8221; areas. The shop owners are up in arms, saying the resolution amounts to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program","category-featured-book"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40328"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40343,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40328\/revisions\/40343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}