{"id":9305,"date":"2020-12-05T01:32:13","date_gmt":"2020-12-05T01:32:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thecannabist.co\/2020\/12\/04\/orange-countys-democratic-leaders-celebrate-historic-house-vote-to-decriminalize-marijuana\/135115\/"},"modified":"2020-12-05T01:32:13","modified_gmt":"2020-12-05T01:32:13","slug":"orange-countys-democratic-leaders-celebrate-historic-house-vote-to-decriminalize-marijuana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/orange-countys-democratic-leaders-celebrate-historic-house-vote-to-decriminalize-marijuana\/","title":{"rendered":"Orange County&#8217;s Democratic leaders celebrate historic House vote to decriminalize marijuana"},"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\/orange-countys-democratic-leaders-celebrate-historic-house-vote-to-decriminalize-marijuana\/\" 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\/12\/OCR-L-MOREACTREAX-1205-01-1-560x314.jpg\"><img src=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/orange-countys-democratic-leaders-celebrate-historic-house-vote-to-decriminalize-marijuana.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div><img src=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/orange-countys-democratic-leaders-celebrate-historic-house-vote-to-decriminalize-marijuana-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\/12\/04\/orange-countys-democratic-leaders-celebrate-historic-house-vote-to-decriminalize-marijuana\/135115\/#comments-anchor\"><span class=\"spot-im-replies-count\" data-post-id=\"135115\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Orange County\u2019s all-Democratic congressional leadership celebrated Friday after the House approved a bill to decriminalize and tax cannabis at the federal level.<\/p>\n<p>The vote, they believe, reverses what supporters describe as a failed policy of criminalizing marijuana consumption, and it takes steps to address racial disparities in enforcement of federal drug laws.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDecriminalizing marijuana at the federal level is long overdue,\u201d said Rep. Harley Rouda, D-Laguna Beach.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ocregister.com\/2020\/12\/04\/orange-countys-democratic-leaders-celebrate-historic-house-vote-to-decriminalize-marijuana\/\">Read the rest of this story on ocregister.com.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!-- .row --> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Orange County\u2019s all-Democratic congressional leadership celebrated Friday after the House approved a bill to decriminalize and tax cannabis at the federal level. The vote, they believe, reverses what supporters describe as a failed policy of criminalizing marijuana consumption, and it takes steps to address racial disparities in enforcement of federal drug laws. \u201cDecriminalizing marijuana at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8226,9,441,1,3,61,1736],"tags":[8227,3015],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9305"}],"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=9305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9305\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}