{"id":706,"date":"2012-09-15T08:08:55","date_gmt":"2012-09-15T08:08:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marijuana.net\/?p=19940"},"modified":"2012-09-15T08:08:55","modified_gmt":"2012-09-15T08:08:55","slug":"rough-election-for-paul-ryan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/rough-election-for-paul-ryan\/","title":{"rendered":"Rough Election For Paul Ryan"},"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\/rough-election-for-paul-ryan\/\" send=\"true\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div><p><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"268\" height=\"188\" src=\"http:\/\/www.marijuana.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/paul-ryan1.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"paul ryan\" title=\"paul ryan\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-19941\" href=\"http:\/\/www.marijuana.net\/news-and-articles\/rough-election-for-paul-ryan\/attachment\/paul-ryan-2\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-19941\" title=\"paul ryan\" src=\"http:\/\/www.marijuana.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/paul-ryan1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>The race for the U.S. presidency can consume and spit out candidates.\u00a0 The young boy wonder Paul Ryan has been a rising star in the GOP and Congress for almost 14 years.\u00a0 However, joining Mitt Romney in the race for the White House may drive down his stock considerably.\u00a0 Already responding to criticisms of misstatements after his address at the RNC regarding welfare and Medicare, the news just has not been great for Ryan.<\/p>\n<p>Clearly Ryan and Romney are not on the same page.\u00a0 Romney selected a man known as a budget hawk, but has not embraced what Ryan believes.\u00a0 In fact Mitt Romney seems to be running from his record.\u00a0 Recently<a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/mitt-romney-defense-cuts-paul-ryan-debt-ceiling-2012-9\" target=\"_blank\"> Mitt Romeny told &#8220;Meet The Press&#8221; <\/a>that President Obama and the GOP (lead by Ryan on the issue) were wrong to vote to cut military spending.\u00a0 The lack of unity was on display recently as Paul Ryan told a group of voters in Colorado that he felt marijuana laws should be left up to the states to decide.\u00a0 This was soon followed by a statement from the Romney campaign that indicated that Ryan agreed with Mitt Romney 100% and that marijuana should never be legalized.<\/p>\n<p>We do not want to pick on Paul Ryan specifically, but so far he is the only one who has dared engage on the issue of marijuana.\u00a0 Even though marijuana legalization offers the potential to satisfy Paul Ryan\u2019s desire to cut spending and the size of government, we were still surprised to hear him support the issue.\u00a0 We were <strong><em>NOT <\/em><\/strong>surprised to see the Romney campaign recant a statement.\u00a0 They seem to have made an art of this.<\/p>\n<p>The Paul Ryan statement that seemed to come from left field motivated marijuana.net to dig a little deeper into Paul Ryan\u2019s view on marijuana.\u00a0 The digging did not require much effort and we were able to figure out that as recently as May of this year, Paul Ryan voted against a bill that would have defunded the DEA\u2019s ability conduct medical marijuana raids.\u00a0 Not exactly a pro state rights view is it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"268\" height=\"188\" src=\"http:\/\/www.marijuana.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/paul-ryan1.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"paul ryan\" title=\"paul ryan\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-19941\" href=\"http:\/\/www.marijuana.net\/news-and-articles\/rough-election-for-paul-ryan\/attachment\/paul-ryan-2\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-19941\" title=\"paul ryan\" src=\"http:\/\/www.marijuana.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/paul-ryan1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>The race for the U.S. presidency can consume and spit out candidates.\u00a0 The young boy wonder Paul Ryan has been a rising star in the GOP and Congress for almost 14 years.\u00a0 However, joining Mitt Romney in the race for the White House may drive down his stock considerably.\u00a0 Already responding to criticisms of misstatements after his address at the RNC regarding welfare and Medicare, the news just has not been great for Ryan.<\/p>\n<p>Clearly Ryan and Romney are not on the same page.\u00a0 Romney selected a man known as a budget hawk, but has not embraced what Ryan believes.\u00a0 In fact Mitt Romney seems to be running from his record.\u00a0 Recently<a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/mitt-romney-defense-cuts-paul-ryan-debt-ceiling-2012-9\" target=\"_blank\"> Mitt Romeny told &#8220;Meet The Press&#8221; <\/a>that President Obama and the GOP (lead by Ryan on the issue) were wrong to vote to cut military spending.\u00a0 The lack of unity was on display recently as Paul Ryan told a group of voters in Colorado that he felt marijuana laws should be left up to the states to decide.\u00a0 This was soon followed by a statement from the Romney campaign that indicated that Ryan agreed with Mitt Romney 100% and that marijuana should never be legalized.<\/p>\n<p>We do not want to pick on Paul Ryan specifically, but so far he is the only one who has dared engage on the issue of marijuana.\u00a0 Even though marijuana legalization offers the potential to satisfy Paul Ryan\u2019s desire to cut spending and the size of government, we were still surprised to hear him support the issue.\u00a0 We were <strong><em>NOT <\/em><\/strong>surprised to see the Romney campaign recant a statement.\u00a0 They seem to have made an art of this.<\/p>\n<p>The Paul Ryan statement that seemed to come from left field motivated marijuana.net to dig a little deeper into Paul Ryan\u2019s view on marijuana.\u00a0 The digging did not require much effort and we were able to figure out that as recently as May of this year, Paul Ryan voted against a bill that would have defunded the DEA\u2019s ability conduct medical marijuana raids.\u00a0 Not exactly a pro state rights view is it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[52,98,56,511,9,479,68,51,480,70,281,1,3,512,513,61],"tags":[2632,2676,2636,3085,3053,2647,2631,3054,5,2859,3086,3087,6],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706"}],"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=706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}