{"id":36044,"date":"2019-03-17T00:35:35","date_gmt":"2019-03-17T00:35:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=36044"},"modified":"2019-03-17T00:35:35","modified_gmt":"2019-03-17T00:35:35","slug":"former-speaker-taking-the-high-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=36044","title":{"rendered":"Former speaker taking the ‘high’ road?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Well now. Former U.S. House Speaker John Boehner, who used to oppose legalization of marijuana, is now on board with it.<\/p>\n

He says he wants MJ legalized, marking a dramatic shift in the Ohio Republican’s former stance.<\/p>\n

In truth, he joins a list of prominent Republican public officials to extol the virtues of legalizing marijuana.<\/p>\n

Former Secretary of State George Schultz is on board; so was the late conservative icon William F. Buckley; same for noted GOP-minded economist Milton Friedman; the late Sen. Barry Goldwater, too.<\/p>\n

Former Speaker Boehner, as the West Texas saying goes, is walking through some mighty tall cotton by joining those individuals.<\/p>\n

According to National Public Radio<\/a>: “I feel like I’m like your average American who over the years began to look at this a little differently and I think over the last five years my position, it has kind of softened up and softened up,” Boehner said.<\/em><\/p>\n

I suppose I could add that being liberated from the whims and wishes of political constituents who might believe differently had something to do with Boehner’s change of heart.<\/p>\n

I am leaning that way myself.<\/p>\n\n

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Well now. Former U.S. House Speaker John Boehner, who used to oppose legalization of marijuana, is now on board with it. He says he wants MJ legalized, marking a dramatic shift in the Ohio Republican’s former stance. In truth, he joins a list of prominent Republican public officials to extol the virtues of legalizing marijuana. … Continue reading Former speaker taking the ‘high’ road?<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[2523,8436,2899,3341],"class_list":["post-36044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-john-boehner","tag-ketr-fm","tag-marijuana","tag-npr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36044"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36046,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36044\/revisions\/36046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}