{"id":9216,"date":"2020-06-17T12:41:06","date_gmt":"2020-06-17T12:41:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thecannabist.co\/2020\/06\/17\/colorado-lawmakers-let-governor-mass-pardon-marijuana-possession-convictions\/134890\/"},"modified":"2020-06-17T12:41:06","modified_gmt":"2020-06-17T12:41:06","slug":"colorado-lawmakers-let-governor-mass-pardon-marijuana-possession-convictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/colorado-lawmakers-let-governor-mass-pardon-marijuana-possession-convictions\/","title":{"rendered":"Colorado lawmakers let governor mass-pardon marijuana possession convictions"},"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\/colorado-lawmakers-let-governor-mass-pardon-marijuana-possession-convictions\/\" 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\/2020\/02\/TDP-L-LIVWELL__HHR0431-560x373.jpg\"><img src=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/colorado-lawmakers-let-governor-mass-pardon-marijuana-possession-convictions.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div><img src=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/colorado-lawmakers-let-governor-mass-pardon-marijuana-possession-convictions-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\/2020\/06\/17\/colorado-lawmakers-let-governor-mass-pardon-marijuana-possession-convictions\/134890\/#comments-anchor\"><span class=\"spot-im-replies-count\" data-post-id=\"134890\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The governor would be able to mass-pardon marijuana convictions for possession of 2 ounces or less if he signs a bill that gives him that authority.<\/p>\n<p>It was the last amendment to the last bill considered Monday before Colorado\u2019s General Assembly ended its work for the year. Lawmakers added the mass expungement option to House Bill 1424, which aims to open the marijuana industry to people of color and those who were previously convicted on drug charges that wouldn\u2019t be crimes now.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for Gov. Jared Polis didn\u2019t directly answer whether he would sign it but sounded supportive Tuesday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/2020\/06\/17\/colorado-governor-mass-pardon-expungement-marijuana-convictions\/\">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>The governor would be able to mass-pardon marijuana convictions for possession of 2 ounces or less if he signs a bill that gives him that authority. It was the last amendment to the last bill considered Monday before Colorado\u2019s General Assembly ended its work for the year. Lawmakers added the mass expungement option to House [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5062,6907,6857,854,5577,6814,56,9,441,1,3,61,1736],"tags":[5063,6909,6859,3427,5580,6819,2636,3015],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9216"}],"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=9216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}