{"id":7993,"date":"2018-01-15T23:52:51","date_gmt":"2018-01-15T23:52:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/?p=2920431"},"modified":"2018-01-15T23:52:51","modified_gmt":"2018-01-15T23:52:51","slug":"minister-who-sued-to-stop-colorados-pot-dui-law-running-for-weld-county-commissioner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/minister-who-sued-to-stop-colorados-pot-dui-law-running-for-weld-county-commissioner\/","title":{"rendered":"Minister who sued to stop Colorado\u2019s pot DUI law running for Weld County commissioner"},"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\/minister-who-sued-to-stop-colorados-pot-dui-law-running-for-weld-county-commissioner\/\" send=\"true\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div><div class=\"media_block\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"large-10 large-centered small-12 columns\">\n<div class=\"entry-meta-date\">Published: Jan 15, 2018, 4:29 pm \u2022 Updated: Jan 15, 2018, 4:38 pm<span class=\"single-comments-link\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"byline\">By <strong>Tyler Silvy<\/strong>, <em> The Greeley Tribune<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The pastor of a marijuana-based church will run for Weld County commissioner as a Republican.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/2013\/05\/20\/colorado-stoned-driving-bill-attracts-lawsuit\/\">Brandon Baker, 39, who in 2013 sued to stop the state\u2019s pot DUI law from being enacted,<\/a>\u00a0says he will campaign for the at-large county commissioners seat up for election November 2018, and could face off against incumbent at-large commissioner Steve Moreno, also a Republican, in the June primary.<\/p>\n<p>Baker cites partisan rhetoric as his reason for entering the race.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m running on the seriousness, dedication and <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.denverpost.com\/crime\/2011\/10\/06\/marijuana-activist-sues-colorado-in-federal-court\/1817\/\">determination I used to solidify our respectable and responsible cannabis sacrament church of God<\/a>,\u201d Baker said in an email.<\/p>\n<p>Baker spent 15 years as a stone mason, and has studied law but has not yet completed his degree. He has worked for law offices as a process server since 2010, and has run the Greenfaith Ministry church and charity in Nunn since 2009.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0organization\u2019s website\u00a0says it\u2019s the first federally and state-approved marijuana-based church in the United States. The church\u2019s sole focus is on cannabis, and it has detailed rules based on the substance, including the idea that the church must maintain a six-month supply of marijuana in the event of a natural disaster.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have one thing Weld County is lacking and no other candidate offers: a younger, modern approach to it all, with decades of experience in law as well as cannabis and hemp,\u201d Baker said, adding that hemp is the biggest emerging agriculture industry out there.<\/p>\n<p>To read more of this story go to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greeleytribune.com\/news\/local\/marijuana-church-reverend-will-run-for-weld-county-commissioner-in-2018\/\">greeleytribune.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!-- .row --> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><\/div>\n<p>The pastor of a marijuana-based church, who sued to stop the state&#8217;s pot DUI from taking effect, will run for Weld County commissioner as a Republican. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5062,52,6811,55,6813,6848,77,5667,9,5019,441,1,3,61,7488,1736],"tags":[5063,2632,6816,2635,6818,6851,2655,5673,5022,3015,7489],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7993"}],"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=7993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7993\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}