{"id":8545,"date":"2018-11-25T18:18:55","date_gmt":"2018-11-25T18:18:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thecannabist.co\/2018\/11\/25\/marijuana-movement-energized-with-sessions-out-as-attorney-general\/104812\/"},"modified":"2018-11-25T18:18:55","modified_gmt":"2018-11-25T18:18:55","slug":"marijuana-movement-energized-with-sessions-out-as-attorney-general","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/marijuana-movement-energized-with-sessions-out-as-attorney-general\/","title":{"rendered":"Marijuana movement energized with Sessions out as attorney general"},"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\/marijuana-movement-energized-with-sessions-out-as-attorney-general\/\" send=\"true\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div><div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecannabist.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/AFP_1AN6UC-1-560x373.jpg\"><img src=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/marijuana-movement-energized-with-sessions-out-as-attorney-general.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div><img src=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/marijuana-movement-energized-with-sessions-out-as-attorney-general-2.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"large-10 large-centered small-12 columns\">\n<p>He described marijuana as a \u201cvery real danger\u201d and has said its effects are \u201conly slightly less awful\u201d than those of heroin. Once, during a drug hearing when he was a senator, he said he wanted to send a clear message: \u201cGood people don\u2019t smoke marijuana.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>So when Attorney General Jeff Sessions resigned recently, proponents of legalized marijuana \u2014 activists, politicians, investors \u2014 were pleased.<\/p>\n<p>Sessions\u2019 departure has translated into surging stocks for cannabis companies and a reset of sorts for the legalization movement, which since 2012 has succeeded in nearly a dozen states.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/2018\/11\/25\/marijuana-movement-jeff-sessions-resigned\/\">Read the rest of this story on DenverPost.com.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#013; &#013; <\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!-- .row --> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He described marijuana as a \u201cvery real danger\u201d and has said its effects are \u201conly slightly less awful\u201d than those of heroin. Once, during a drug hearing when he was a senator, he said he wanted to send a clear message: \u201cGood people don\u2019t smoke marijuana.\u201d So when Attorney General Jeff Sessions resigned recently, proponents [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9,441,1,3,61,1736],"tags":[3015],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8545"}],"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=8545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8545\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}