{"id":5474,"date":"2016-02-03T00:54:11","date_gmt":"2016-02-03T00:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marijuana.com\/?p=46609"},"modified":"2016-02-03T00:54:11","modified_gmt":"2016-02-03T00:54:11","slug":"az-supporters-of-marijuana-legalization-unveil-pro-pot-billboard-at-phoenix-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/az-supporters-of-marijuana-legalization-unveil-pro-pot-billboard-at-phoenix-open\/","title":{"rendered":"AZ Supporters of Marijuana Legalization Unveil Pro-Pot Billboard at Phoenix Open"},"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\/az-supporters-of-marijuana-legalization-unveil-pro-pot-billboard-at-phoenix-open\/\" send=\"true\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div><p>Golf is an addictive sport, and one that&#8217;s embraced by the dark underbelly of those traveling in the Fast Lane. Long associated with the idle rich \u2013 think nobility \u2013 golf has recently undergone a rebranding by some heavy hitters who hope to utilize the game\u2019s popularity in order to stress the need of <strong>legalizing marijuana in Arizona<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Frustrating, expensive, and a favorite game of moral hucksters, the game of golf takes prime real estate and dots it with multimillion dollar McMansions, then encourages those that can afford it, to smack a little ball with one of their 14 clubs around an 18 hole course \u2026 and whoever has the fewest hacks wins.<\/p>\n<p>Ordinarily, a golf cart is rented for navigating the course, which generally tends to eliminate any possibility of getting exercise. While it restricts a golfer\u2019s overall exercise level, it provides today&#8217;s recreational player an opportunity to run into the eye-catching girl driving a refreshment cart, puttering around the sea of green and pimping out alcohol and tobacco like it was candy.<\/p>\n<p>Tired of the toxicity twins dominating one of America&#8217;s favorite sports, supporters of <strong>Arizona&#8217;s proposed ballot initiative to legalize marijuana<\/strong> are d\u00e9buting a slightly risqu\u00e9 Phoenix Open billboard Monday to correspond with the start of Arizona&#8217;s most popular golf tournament, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/ktar.com\/story\/883095\/go-green-pro-marijuana-billboard-targets-waste-management-phoenix-open-fans\/#Go%20green:%20Pro-marijuana%20billboard%20targets%20Waste%20Management%20Phoenix%20Open%20fans\" target=\"_blank\">KTAR News<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><strong>&#8220;The sign reads: \u201cIf beer and golf make for the greatest party on grass \u2026 Why can\u2019t adults enjoy a safer party on grass?<\/strong>\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><em>Indeed&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><strong>\u201cWhen they put out their slogan as the \u2018Greatest party on grass,\u2019 how can we as an organization \u2014 whose goal is to legalize adult-use cannabis \u2014 not have fun with this?\u201d campaign chair J.P. Holyoak said.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>As golf&#8217;s younger demographic continues to grow, millennial golfers are resistant to blindly accepting what came before. They\u2019re not interested in dressing like they are off to work or feeling like they are being policed as they play a round of golf. Oh yeah, they also want the freedom to fire up a fatty before teeing off. And while there&#8217;s little doubt golf has needed to pull the pitching wedge out of its rear end for quite some time, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.regulatemarijuanainarizona.org#Why%20regulate%20marijuana%20like%20alcohol?\" target=\"_blank\">Arizona&#8217;s Campaign to Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol<\/a> is emphasizing that fact at this years Phoenix Open. Provided the November ballot initiative passes, marijuana would become legal for adults 21 years of age and older in Arizona.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Golf is an addictive sport, and one that&#8217;s embraced by the dark underbelly of those traveling in the Fast Lane. Long associated with the idle rich \u2013 think nobility \u2013 golf has recently undergone a rebranding by some heavy hitters who hope to utilize the game\u2019s popularity in order to stress the need of legalizing [&#8230;] <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2437,9,2451,1,3],"tags":[2443,2454],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5474"}],"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=5474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5474\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}