{"id":51235,"date":"2022-04-17T00:55:46","date_gmt":"2022-04-17T00:55:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=51235"},"modified":"2022-04-17T00:55:46","modified_gmt":"2022-04-17T00:55:46","slug":"back-and-forth-on-marijuana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=51235","title":{"rendered":"Back and forth on marijuana"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/mj-scaled.webp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-51236\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/mj-300x158.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"158\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/mj-300x158.webp 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/mj-1024x538.webp 1024w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/mj-768x403.webp 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/mj-1536x806.webp 1536w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/mj-2048x1075.webp 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Man, I cannot make up my mind on the issue of whether we ought to legalize marijuana.<\/p>\n<p>I have commented in the past on this blog about my &#8220;open mind&#8221; on the issue. It&#8217;s still open, but it closes from time to time.<\/p>\n<p>At the moment, my mind hasn&#8217;t slammed the proverbial door shut, but I am wavering.<\/p>\n<p>States are decriminalizing marijuana use. Oregon, the state of my birth, was among the first to do so. It&#8217;s two Pacific Cost neighboring states &#8212; Washington and California &#8212; have done the same. We moved away from Oregon in 1984, so I am not entirely well-versed on the effect that decriminalization has had on my home state.<\/p>\n<p>I am not prepared to endorse the idea of decriminalization. Nor am I ready to condemn it. So, I guess my mind is open.<\/p>\n<p>There might be a middle ground I can endorse: turning it into a civil penalty, sort of like a traffic ticket. You pay the fine and go about your business.<\/p>\n<p>Some progressive members of Congress are talking openly about legalizing marijuana use. I&#8217;ll have to get back to you on that one.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"mailto:johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com\">johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Man, I cannot make up my mind on the issue of whether we ought to legalize marijuana. I have commented in the past on this blog about my &#8220;open mind&#8221; on the issue. It&#8217;s still open, but it closes from time to time. At the moment, my mind hasn&#8217;t slammed the proverbial door shut, but &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=51235\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Back and forth on marijuana<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[837,2899],"class_list":["post-51235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legal-news","tag-cannabis","tag-marijuana"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51235","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=51235"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51237,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51235\/revisions\/51237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}