{"id":9254,"date":"2020-08-21T20:56:49","date_gmt":"2020-08-21T20:56:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thecannabist.co\/2020\/08\/21\/guest-commentary-the-use-of-cannabis-in-the-united-states-should-be-decriminalized\/134996\/"},"modified":"2020-08-21T20:56:49","modified_gmt":"2020-08-21T20:56:49","slug":"guest-commentary-the-use-of-cannabis-in-the-united-states-should-be-decriminalized","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/guest-commentary-the-use-of-cannabis-in-the-united-states-should-be-decriminalized\/","title":{"rendered":"Guest Commentary: The use of cannabis in the United States should be decriminalized"},"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\/guest-commentary-the-use-of-cannabis-in-the-united-states-should-be-decriminalized\/\" 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\/08\/medical-marijuana-560x380.jpg\"><img src=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/guest-commentary-the-use-of-cannabis-in-the-united-states-should-be-decriminalized.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div><img src=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/guest-commentary-the-use-of-cannabis-in-the-united-states-should-be-decriminalized-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\/08\/21\/guest-commentary-the-use-of-cannabis-in-the-united-states-should-be-decriminalized\/134996\/#comments-anchor\"><span class=\"spot-im-replies-count\" data-post-id=\"134996\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Amid the long-overdue national conversation about achieving true social justice, one key element is being largely overlooked: The need to end decades of misguided drug policy that has disproportionately taken a toll on minority communities.<\/p>\n<p>An issue certain to arise in the presidential campaign is whether the use of cannabis should be decriminalized, or whether it should remain illegal under federal law. I believe the current federal prohibition must be repealed.<\/p>\n<p>First, the grim truth is that America\u2019s war on drugs, coupled with decades of disinvestment, has contributed to a cycle of poverty, violence and incarceration and contributed to the societal injustice we are working to unravel.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/2020\/08\/21\/guest-commentary-the-use-of-cannabis-in-the-united-states-should-be-decriminalized\/\">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>Amid the long-overdue national conversation about achieving true social justice, one key element is being largely overlooked: The need to end decades of misguided drug policy that has disproportionately taken a toll on minority communities. An issue certain to arise in the presidential campaign is whether the use of cannabis should be decriminalized, or whether [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5062,5577,56,9,6983,1,3,61,1736],"tags":[5063,5580,2636,6984],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9254"}],"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=9254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9254\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}