{"id":40347,"date":"2014-06-13T09:46:08","date_gmt":"2014-06-13T16:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=40347"},"modified":"2014-06-13T09:47:39","modified_gmt":"2014-06-13T16:47:39","slug":"peter-hecht-explores-how-california-became-the-epicenter-of-pot-legalization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2014\/06\/13\/peter-hecht-explores-how-california-became-the-epicenter-of-pot-legalization\/","title":{"rendered":"Peter Hecht Explores How California Became the Epicenter of Pot Legalization"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=50% src=\"\/home\/graphics\/peter_hecht_interview.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>Peter Hecht is an award winning journalist who writes for the Sacramento Bee and McClatchy newspapers. He 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. On June 12, 2014, he spoke with Uprising host Sonali Kolhatkar about his book. <\/p>\n<p>Watch a video of the interview here: <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"477\" height=\"300\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/a_gmPbA8i1I\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=50% src=\"\/home\/graphics\/peter_hecht_interview.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>Peter Hecht is an award winning journalist who writes for the Sacramento Bee and McClatchy newspapers. He 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. On June 12, 2014, he spoke with Uprising host Sonali Kolhatkar about his book. <\/p>\n<p>Watch a video of the interview here: <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/a_gmPbA8i1I\">http:\/\/youtu.be\/a_gmPbA8i1I<\/a><\/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":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40347","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=40347"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40362,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40347\/revisions\/40362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}