{"id":7006,"date":"2016-11-28T16:48:11","date_gmt":"2016-11-28T16:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.denverpost.com?p=2233905&amp;preview_id=2233905"},"modified":"2016-11-28T16:48:11","modified_gmt":"2016-11-28T16:48:11","slug":"the-weed-legalization-train-could-get-derailed-and-heres-how","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/the-weed-legalization-train-could-get-derailed-and-heres-how\/","title":{"rendered":"The weed legalization train could get derailed, and here\u2019s how"},"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\/the-weed-legalization-train-could-get-derailed-and-heres-how\/\" send=\"true\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div><p>DENVER \u2014 Weed is winning in the polls, with a solid majority of Americans saying marijuana should be legal. But does that mean the federal government will let dozens of state pot experiments play out? Not by a long shot.<\/p>\n<p>The government still has many means to slow or stop the marijuana train. And President-elect Donald Trump\u2019s nomination of Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions to be the next attorney general has raised fears that the new administration could crack down on weed-tolerant states 20 years after California became the first to legalize medical marijuana.<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thecannabist.co\/2016\/11\/18\/trump-attorney-general-marijuana-legalization-enforcement\/67892\/\">Related: Trump\u2019s pick for attorney general not fan of legal weed<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need grown-ups in charge in Washington to say marijuana is not the kind of thing that ought to be legalized. It ought not to be minimized, that it\u2019s in fact a very real danger,\u201d Sessions said during an April Senate hearing.<\/p>\n<p>The Controlled Substances Act bans pot even for medical purposes. A closer look at some of the government\u2019s options for enforcing it is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thecannabist.co\/2016\/11\/28\/marijuana-legalization-federal-moves\/68272\/\">available at thecannabist.co<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Weed is winning in the polls. But does that mean the federal government will let dozens of state pot experiments play out? Not in a long shot. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[77,6826,9,5019,1,3,61,1736],"tags":[2655,6828,5022],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7006"}],"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=7006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7006\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}