{"id":15864,"date":"2018-02-27T16:20:28","date_gmt":"2018-02-27T21:20:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/?p=15864"},"modified":"2018-02-27T16:20:28","modified_gmt":"2018-02-27T21:20:28","slug":"maine-lawmakers-push-to-rewrite-2016-voter-approved-marijuana-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/2018\/02\/maine-lawmakers-push-to-rewrite-2016-voter-approved-marijuana-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Maine: Lawmakers Push To Rewrite 2016 Voter-Approved Marijuana Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img src='https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/assets.blog.norml.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Paul_LePage_32770544230-600x315.jpg?resize=600%2C315' style='max-width:600px;' data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<div>#News420<br \/>\nDear #Maine voters:<br \/>\n#JustSayNo at the ballot box in November, to all of your elected officials that, for nearly two years have disregarded the will of their constituency by failing to enact the legislation you voted for. Now they want further delays to rewrite it&#8230;you know what needs to get rewritten? The name of your legislators, that&#8217;s what. To candidates that respect your wishes, rather than interpret them for their own purposes.<br \/>\n#Resist government bullshit.<\/p>\n<p>The Article &#8216;Maine: Lawmakers Push To Rewrite 2016 Voter-Approved Marijuana Law&#8217; originally appeared on <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.norml.org\/2018\/02\/27\/maine-lawmakers-push-to-rewrite-2016-voter-approved-marijuana-law\/?utm_content=buffer6fa19&#038;utm_medium=social&#038;utm_source=facebook.com&#038;utm_campaign=buffer\">http:\/\/blog.norml.org\/2018\/02\/27\/maine-lawmakers-push-to-rewrite-2016-voter-approved-marijuana-law\/?utm_content=buffer6fa19&#038;utm_medium=social&#038;utm_source=facebook.com&#038;utm_campaign=buffer<\/a><br \/>\nJamie&#8217;s comments are his own.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>#News420 Dear #Maine voters: #JustSayNo at the ballot box in November, to all of your elected officials that, for nearly two years have disregarded the will of their constituency by failing to enact the legislation you voted for. Now they want further delays to rewrite it&#8230;you know what needs to get rewritten? The name of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[14,480,456,132,429],"tags":[523,159,33,530,552],"class_list":["post-15864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-facebook","category-jamie-gray","category-news","category-shared-link","tag-blog","tag-facebook","tag-jamie-gray","tag-news","tag-shared"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":13748,"url":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/2017\/07\/blowing-past-deadlines-massachusetts-lawmakers-still-at-odds-over-state-budget-marijuana-law-rewrite\/","url_meta":{"origin":15864,"position":0},"title":"Blowing past deadlines, Massachusetts lawmakers still at odds over state budget, marijuana law rewrite","date":"July 6, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"#News420 Oh Massachusetts, get your shit together. 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