{"id":17013,"date":"2018-11-13T11:51:43","date_gmt":"2018-11-13T16:51:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/?p=17013"},"modified":"2018-11-13T17:13:00","modified_gmt":"2018-11-13T22:13:00","slug":"texas-norml-midterm-elections-and-the-86th-texas-legislature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/2018\/11\/texas-norml-midterm-elections-and-the-86th-texas-legislature\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas NORML: Midterm Elections and the 86th Texas Legislature"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"max-width: 600px;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/assets.blog.norml.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Texas.png?w=980\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<div>Pete Sessions, no relationship to recently shit-canned Jeffy the Elf, but perhaps an even bigger obstacle to cannabis legalization, will no longer be in Congress. That means that the guy who refused to allow any cannabis bills to make it to the House floor for discussion or vote&#8230;that guy is gone.<br \/>\nSo&#8230;2019 should be an interesting year for legal weed. Kudos to Texans for making the right choice&#8230;for a change.<br \/>\n#News420<\/p>\n<p>The Article &#8216;Texas NORML: Midterm Elections and the 86th Texas Legislature&#8217; originally appeared on <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.norml.org\/2018\/11\/13\/texas-norml-midterm-elections-and-the-86th-texas-legislature\/\">http:\/\/blog.norml.org\/2018\/11\/13\/texas-norml-midterm-elections-and-the-86th-texas-legislature\/<\/a><br \/>\nJamie&#8217;s comments are his own.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pete Sessions, no relationship to recently shit-canned Jeffy the Elf, but perhaps an even bigger obstacle to cannabis legalization, will no longer be in Congress. That means that the guy who refused to allow any cannabis bills to make it to the House floor for discussion or vote&#8230;that guy is gone. So&#8230;2019 should be an [&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":[582,586,590,589,565,587,588,585,591,456],"tags":[593,597,596,96,598,594,595,592,523,33],"class_list":["post-17013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-2","category-editorial-2","category-imho","category-imo","category-jamiegray","category-moregray","category-myopinion","category-opinion-3","category-sharedlink","category-jamie-gray","tag-editorial","tag-imho-blogger","tag-imo","tag-jamiegray","tag-link","tag-moregray","tag-myopinion","tag-opinion","tag-blog","tag-jamie-gray"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":17160,"url":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/2018\/12\/congress-lifts-longstanding-ban-on-hemp-production\/","url_meta":{"origin":17013,"position":0},"title":"Congress Lifts Longstanding Ban on Hemp Production","date":"December 13, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Hemp production has been greenlighted...next stop, cannabis with a kick. 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