{"id":1613,"date":"2013-04-24T01:36:48","date_gmt":"2013-04-24T01:36:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marijuana.net\/?p=20866"},"modified":"2013-04-24T01:36:48","modified_gmt":"2013-04-24T01:36:48","slug":"puerto-rico-lawmakers-contemplating-marijuna-legalization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/puerto-rico-lawmakers-contemplating-marijuna-legalization\/","title":{"rendered":"Puerto Rico Congress Considering Marijuna Legalisation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0 5px 5px;float:right;height:100px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/puerto-rico-lawmakers-contemplating-marijuna-legalization\/\" send=\"true\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div><p><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"259\" height=\"194\" src=\"http:\/\/www.marijuana.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/puerto-rico.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"puerto rico\" title=\"puerto rico\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-20869\" href=\"http:\/\/www.marijuana.net\/news-and-articles\/puerto-rico-lawmakers-contemplating-marijuna-legalization\/attachment\/puerto-rico\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-20869\" title=\"puerto rico\" src=\"http:\/\/www.marijuana.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/puerto-rico-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>The continuing fight between your states and authorities over marijuana law continues to be well recorded.\u00a0 American media shops feast on images of medical dispensary raids and from time to time a federal official attempts to flex their muscle making tough public claims regarding marijuana.<\/p>\n<p>We all know the way the Feds cope with their very own states, no regard for local law,\u00a0 even when the folks want legalized\/medicinal marijuana. \u00a0However, \u00a0how would the U . s . States government cope with a typical wealth that&#8217;s in breach of federal law? \u00a0We may soon discover as some \u00a0Puerto Rican authorities are thinking about a marijuana legalisation bill.<\/p>\n<p>Puerto Rico is renowned for standing on the conservative side on most political issues, \u00a0making many experts question if your legalisation bill could be passed there. \u00a0However, \u00a0the same might be stated of numerous of states in the usa which have either considered or passed decriminalization, medical or legalisation bills. \u00a0Officials in Puerto Rico are clearly divided.\u00a0 Senator Itzamar Pena lately told media shops that\u00a0 &#8220;It&#8217;s crazy that somebody who had been chosen through the people attempts to use his position to result in addiction, sicken and destroy Puerto Rican society.&#8221;\u00a0 However, Senator\u00a0 Miguel Pereira filed the legalisation bill and it has reported the large problem Puerto Rico has using its over crowded jails.\u00a0 80 percent of inmates within the Puerto Rico penal system exist for non violent crimes.<\/p>\n<p>This develop in Peurto Rico appears to participate an increasing trend of Hispanic regions which are frustrated with unsuccessful draconian marijuana guidelines. \u00a0Columbia has legalized as well as our close ally, \u00a0Mexico, \u00a0is seriously thinking about a departure in the U . s . States strategy. \u00a0Will we soon see federal raids by U.S. agents in Puerto Rico? \u00a0It is doubtful that will review well politically.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"259\" height=\"194\" src=\"http:\/\/www.marijuana.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/puerto-rico.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"puerto rico\" title=\"puerto rico\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-20869\" href=\"http:\/\/www.marijuana.net\/news-and-articles\/puerto-rico-lawmakers-contemplating-marijuna-legalization\/attachment\/puerto-rico\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-20869\" title=\"puerto rico\" src=\"http:\/\/www.marijuana.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/puerto-rico-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>The continuing fight between your states and authorities over marijuana law continues to be well recorded.\u00a0 American media shops feast on images of medical dispensary raids and from time to time a federal official attempts to flex their muscle making tough public claims regarding marijuana.<\/p>\n<p>We all know the way the Feds cope with their very own states, no regard for local law,\u00a0 even when the folks want legalized\/medicinal marijuana. \u00a0However, \u00a0how would the U . s . States government cope with a typical wealth that&#8217;s in breach of federal law? \u00a0We may soon discover as some \u00a0Puerto Rican authorities are thinking about a marijuana legalisation bill.<\/p>\n<p>Puerto Rico is renowned for standing on the conservative side on most political issues, \u00a0making many experts question if your legalisation bill could be passed there. \u00a0However, \u00a0the same might be stated of numerous of states in the usa which have either considered or passed decriminalization, medical or legalisation bills. \u00a0Officials in Puerto Rico are clearly divided.\u00a0 Senator Itzamar Pena lately told media shops that\u00a0 &#8220;It&#8217;s crazy that somebody who had been chosen through the people attempts to use his position to result in addiction, sicken and destroy Puerto Rican society.&#8221;\u00a0 However, Senator\u00a0 Miguel Pereira filed the legalisation bill and it has reported the large problem Puerto Rico has using its over crowded jails.\u00a0 80 percent of inmates within the Puerto Rico penal system exist for non violent crimes.<\/p>\n<p>This develop in Peurto Rico appears to participate an increasing trend of Hispanic regions which are frustrated with unsuccessful draconian marijuana guidelines. \u00a0Columbia has legalized as well as our close ally, \u00a0Mexico, \u00a0is seriously thinking about a departure in the U . s . States strategy. \u00a0Will we soon see federal raids by U.S. agents in Puerto Rico? \u00a0It is doubtful that will review well politically.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[52,184,56,9,51,70,1617,1,3,61],"tags":[2632,2762,2636,2631,5,4185,6],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1613"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1613\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}