{"id":742,"date":"2012-09-23T07:43:05","date_gmt":"2012-09-23T07:43:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marijuana.net\/?p=20026"},"modified":"2012-09-23T07:43:05","modified_gmt":"2012-09-23T07:43:05","slug":"med-marijuana-advocates-rally-in-front-of-many-obama-campaign-headquarters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/med-marijuana-advocates-rally-in-front-of-many-obama-campaign-headquarters\/","title":{"rendered":"Med Marijuana Advocates Rally in Front of Many Obama Campaign Headquarters"},"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\/med-marijuana-advocates-rally-in-front-of-many-obama-campaign-headquarters\/\" send=\"true\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div><p><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"266\" height=\"189\" src=\"http:\/\/www.marijuana.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/protestors.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"protestors\" title=\"protestors\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-20027\" href=\"http:\/\/www.marijuana.net\/news-and-articles\/med-marijuana-advocates-rally-in-front-of-many-obama-campaign-headquarters\/attachment\/protestors\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-20027\" title=\"protestors\" src=\"http:\/\/www.marijuana.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/protestors-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>With the exception of Paul Ryan&#8217;s declaration that marijuana should be a state level issue (which was quickly recanted by Team Romney), marijuana reform has not garnered much attention this race.\u00a0 Only Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson has embraced the issue and vowed to legalize marijuana if elected president.\u00a0 Unfortunately he is having a hard time breaking through the two party system and his appearance at the debates seems unlikely.\u00a0 President Obama has certainly disappointed\u00a0 many medical marijuana patients and activists.\u00a0 Mitt Romney has vowed to &#8220;fight medical marijuana tooth and nail&#8221;, leaving patients with few options.\u00a0 Recent campaign stumbles, including a controversial statement accusing President Obama of &#8220;apologizing for American values&#8221; immediately following the Libya embassy attacks and a video where Romney claimed he was not targeting 47% of the country in his campaign make it increasingly likely that Barack Obama will remain the president of the United States.\u00a0 Marijuana activists launched a nation wide protest outside of the President&#8217;s campaign offices in 15 states.\u00a0 Americans for Safe Access have been helping to organize the rallies.\u00a0 Steph Sherer of the group said \u201cThere have been more raids under Obama in three-and-a-half years than eight years of Bush.\u201d\u00a0 Even if President Obama wins, advocates are hopeful that he would reconsider his positions for a second term.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.ria.ru\/world\/20120921\/176147519.html\" target=\"_blank\">For more click here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"266\" height=\"189\" src=\"http:\/\/www.marijuana.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/protestors.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"protestors\" title=\"protestors\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-20027\" href=\"http:\/\/www.marijuana.net\/news-and-articles\/med-marijuana-advocates-rally-in-front-of-many-obama-campaign-headquarters\/attachment\/protestors\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-20027\" title=\"protestors\" src=\"http:\/\/www.marijuana.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/protestors-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>With the exception of Paul Ryan&#8217;s declaration that marijuana should be a state level issue (which was quickly recanted by Team Romney), marijuana reform has not garnered much attention this race.\u00a0 Only Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson has embraced the issue and vowed to legalize marijuana if elected president.\u00a0 Unfortunately he is having a hard time breaking through the two party system and his appearance at the debates seems unlikely.\u00a0 President Obama has certainly disappointed\u00a0 many medical marijuana patients and activists.\u00a0 Mitt Romney has vowed to &#8220;fight medical marijuana tooth and nail&#8221;, leaving patients with few options.\u00a0 Recent campaign stumbles, including a controversial statement accusing President Obama of &#8220;apologizing for American values&#8221; immediately following the Libya embassy attacks and a video where Romney claimed he was not targeting 47% of the country in his campaign make it increasingly likely that Barack Obama will remain the president of the United States.\u00a0 Marijuana activists launched a nation wide protest outside of the President&#8217;s campaign offices in 15 states.\u00a0 Americans for Safe Access have been helping to organize the rallies.\u00a0 Steph Sherer of the group said \u201cThere have been more raids under Obama in three-and-a-half years than eight years of Bush.\u201d\u00a0 Even if President Obama wins, advocates are hopeful that he would reconsider his positions for a second term.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.ria.ru\/world\/20120921\/176147519.html\" target=\"_blank\">For more click here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[293,165,52,56,9,68,51,480,70,281,171,1,3,61],"tags":[2871,2743,2632,2636,2647,2631,3054,5,2859,2749,6],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742"}],"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=742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}