{"id":7335,"date":"2017-04-08T05:36:04","date_gmt":"2017-04-08T05:36:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.denverpost.com?p=2608356&amp;preview_id=2608356"},"modified":"2017-04-08T05:36:04","modified_gmt":"2017-04-08T05:36:04","slug":"new-law-courts-cant-force-medical-marijuana-abstinence-for-users-awaiting-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/new-law-courts-cant-force-medical-marijuana-abstinence-for-users-awaiting-trial\/","title":{"rendered":"New law: Courts can\u2019t force medical marijuana abstinence for users awaiting trial"},"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\/new-law-courts-cant-force-medical-marijuana-abstinence-for-users-awaiting-trial\/\" send=\"true\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div><div class=\"row\" id=\"sticky-outer\">\n<div class=\"large-11 small-12 columns\">\n<div class=\"entry-meta-date\">Published: Apr 7, 2017, 11:47 am \u2022 Updated: Apr 7, 2017, 11:47 am<span class=\"single-comments-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thecannabist.co\/2017\/04\/07\/colorado-medical-marijuana-trial-bond-condition\/76878\/#disqus_thread\" class=\"commentsNameLink\" \/><\/span><\/div>\n<p class=\"byline\"><em>By The Associated Press<\/em><\/p>\n<p>DENVER \u2014 Marijuana use won\u2019t be banned while people await trial in Colorado. That\u2019s according to a new law (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thecannabist.co\/2017\/02\/27\/list-eye-2017-colorado-legislation-marijuana-hemp-bills\/73558\/\">SB17-178<\/a>) signed Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Gov. John Hickenlooper signed a measure forbidding a court from saying that criminal defendants who are marijuana patients must abstain from pot as a condition of bond.<\/p>\n<p>Colorado has already decided that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thecannabist.co\/2015\/05\/09\/colorado-marijuana-probation\/34851\/\">marijuana use shouldn\u2019t be off-limits for people on probation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A fiscal analysis prepared for lawmakers says the bond measure won\u2019t cost any money. That\u2019s because pot abstention isn\u2019t usually a condition of bond in this state.<\/p>\n<p>Supporters call the bond change a policy statement. The protection for marijuana use applies only to people with certain medical conditions, not recreational pot users.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!-- .row --> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marijuana use can&#8217;t be banned while people await trial in Colorado, according to a new law signed by the governor Thursday. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6811,6857,6897,77,56,9,5019,441,1,3,61,1736],"tags":[6816,6859,6898,2655,2636,5022,3015],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7335"}],"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=7335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7335\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}