{"id":16001,"date":"2018-03-15T16:20:45","date_gmt":"2018-03-15T20:20:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/?p=16001"},"modified":"2018-03-15T16:20:45","modified_gmt":"2018-03-15T20:20:45","slug":"marijuana-advocates-speak-out-at-capitol-hearing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/2018\/03\/marijuana-advocates-speak-out-at-capitol-hearing\/","title":{"rendered":"Marijuana Advocates Speak Out At Capitol Hearing"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img src='http:\/\/www.trbimg.com\/img-5aaad07f\/turbine\/hc-pol-marijuana-voices-20180314' style='max-width:600px;' \/><\/p>\n<div>Today in #Hartford, the debate on #Legalization is ON! We&#8217;ve been watching&#8230;some excellent points have been made in favor of. Of course, some stupidity has been heard from the fearful opponents&#8230;but 75% of CT Residents can&#8217;t be wrong!!<br \/>\nTime to Legalize and regulate like alcohol&#8230; #LetItGrow<br \/>\n#News420 #CT<\/p>\n<p>The Article &#8216;Marijuana Advocates Speak Out At Capitol Hearing&#8217; originally appeared on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.courant.com\/politics\/hc-pol-marijuana-voices-20180314-story.html\">http:\/\/www.courant.com\/politics\/hc-pol-marijuana-voices-20180314-story.html<\/a><br \/>\nJamie&#8217;s comments are his own.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today in #Hartford, the debate on #Legalization is ON! We&#8217;ve been watching&#8230;some excellent points have been made in favor of. Of course, some stupidity has been heard from the fearful opponents&#8230;but 75% of CT Residents can&#8217;t be wrong!! Time to Legalize and regulate like alcohol&#8230; #LetItGrow #News420 #CT The Article &#8216;Marijuana Advocates Speak Out At [&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-16001","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":11747,"url":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/2017\/01\/several-marijuana-legalization-bills-coming-at-state-capitol\/","url_meta":{"origin":16001,"position":0},"title":"Several marijuana legalization bills coming at State Capitol","date":"January 6, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"#News420 Connecticut has 3 different legalization bills heading to committee, with bipartisan support. 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