{"id":88784,"date":"2015-12-01T08:05:23","date_gmt":"2015-12-01T14:05:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=88784"},"modified":"2015-12-01T08:05:23","modified_gmt":"2015-12-01T14:05:23","slug":"med-marijuana-petition-approved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=88784","title":{"rendered":"Med. marijuana petition approved"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/jaeger.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-86385\" alt=\"jaeger\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/jaeger-300x202.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/jaeger-300x202.jpg 300w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/jaeger-259x175.jpg 259w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/jaeger.jpg 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) \u2013 North Dakota Secretary of State Al Jaeger has approved for circulation a medical marijuana ballot measure petition.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Jaeger on Monday said the measure\u2019s sponsoring committee will have to gather about 13,500 qualified signatures in order to put the measure on the ballot.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 With voters\u2019 approval, the initiative would make it legal for North Dakota residents to possess up to 3 ounces of marijuana for medical purposes. It says those who qualify could obtain the drug from a state-licensed dispensary or grow a limited supply for personal use.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Jaeger says signatures must be turned in by Feb. 15 if the committee intends to place the measure on the June 14 ballot. If the committee wants it placed on the Nov. 8 ballot, its deadline to submit the signatures is July 11.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) \u2013 North Dakota Secretary of State Al Jaeger has approved for circulation a medical marijuana ballot measure petition. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Jaeger on Monday said the measure\u2019s sponsoring committee will have to gather about 13,500 qualified signatures in order to put the measure on the ballot. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":86385,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=88784"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88786,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88784\/revisions\/88786"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/86385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}