{"id":8901,"date":"2019-12-20T21:27:21","date_gmt":"2019-12-20T21:27:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thecannabist.co\/2019\/12\/20\/working-in-colorados-cannabis-industry-could-prevent-you-from-becoming-a-u-s-citizen-a-new-bill-in-washington-could-change-that\/120468\/"},"modified":"2019-12-20T21:27:21","modified_gmt":"2019-12-20T21:27:21","slug":"working-in-colorados-cannabis-industry-could-prevent-you-from-becoming-a-u-s-citizen-a-new-bill-in-washington-could-change-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/working-in-colorados-cannabis-industry-could-prevent-you-from-becoming-a-u-s-citizen-a-new-bill-in-washington-could-change-that\/","title":{"rendered":"Working in Colorado&#8217;s cannabis industry could prevent you from becoming a U.S. citizen. A new bill in Washington could change that."},"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\/working-in-colorados-cannabis-industry-could-prevent-you-from-becoming-a-u-s-citizen-a-new-bill-in-washington-could-change-that\/\" 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\/2019\/12\/20190403_Immigrant-Marijuana_030-560x373.jpg\"><img src=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/working-in-colorados-cannabis-industry-could-prevent-you-from-becoming-a-u-s-citizen-a-new-bill-in-washington-could-change-that.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div><img src=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/working-in-colorados-cannabis-industry-could-prevent-you-from-becoming-a-u-s-citizen-a-new-bill-in-washington-could-change-that-2.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"large-10 large-centered small-12 columns\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecannabist.co\/2019\/12\/20\/working-in-colorados-cannabis-industry-could-prevent-you-from-becoming-a-u-s-citizen-a-new-bill-in-washington-could-change-that\/120468\/#comments-anchor\"><span class=\"spot-im-replies-count\" data-post-id=\"120468\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year, Denver resident Oswaldo Barrientos was barred from becoming a U.S. citizen because of his work in Colorado\u2019s legal cannabis industry, despite a perfectly clean record.<\/p>\n<p>But a bi-partisan bill introduced in Washington this week could make it possible for those like Barrientos to clear that final hurdle.<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Cory Gardner, R-Yuma, joined forces with an unlikely partner in Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Massachusetts, to introduce legislation that would remove participation in the legal cannabis industry from the list of activities that automatically bar naturalization. It comes months after Denver Mayor Michael Hancock pressed the Trump administration to rethink its citizenship policies, which issued guidance in April that anyone working in the marijuana industry \u2014 even in states where it is legal \u2014 could be barred from becoming a citizen because they \u201clacked good moral character.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/2019\/12\/20\/colorado-marijuana-citizenship-bill-cory-gardner-elizabeth-warren\/\">Read the rest of this story on DenverPost.com.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!-- .row --> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this year, Denver resident Oswaldo Barrientos was barred from becoming a U.S. citizen because of his work in Colorado\u2019s legal cannabis industry, despite a perfectly clean record. But a bi-partisan bill introduced in Washington this week could make it possible for those like Barrientos to clear that final hurdle. Sen. Cory Gardner, R-Yuma, joined [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6811,7163,5662,7469,1538,5577,9,441,1,3,5125,61,1736],"tags":[6816,7165,5668,7472,4106,5580,3015,5128],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8901"}],"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=8901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8901\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}