{"id":153266,"date":"2018-09-14T14:39:23","date_gmt":"2018-09-14T19:39:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=153266"},"modified":"2018-09-14T14:44:46","modified_gmt":"2018-09-14T19:44:46","slug":"state-chamber-opposes-legalize-recreational-pot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=153266","title":{"rendered":"State Chamber opposes legalized recreational pot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-153267\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/GNDC-logo.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"91\" \/>BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) \u2014 North Dakota&#8217;s largest business organization will campaign to help defeat a measure that would legalize recreational marijuana and another one aimed at ethics reform.<\/p>\n<p>Greater North Dakota Chamber President and CEO Arik Spencer says his organization is among a coalition of groups being assembled to fight the proposals.<\/p>\n<p>Campaign filings list the chamber as the contact for committees opposing the measures that will be decided in November.<\/p>\n<p>Measure 1 would ban foreign money from North Dakota elections, restrict lobbying and create an independent ethics commission, among other provisions.<\/p>\n<p>Spencer says it would be difficult to comply with the measure because it is too broadly worded.<\/p>\n<p>He says making marijuana legal would create many problems for businesses and employees.<\/p>\n<p>The chamber has more than 1,000 members.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) \u2014 North Dakota&#8217;s largest business organization will campaign to help defeat a measure that would legalize recreational marijuana and another one aimed at ethics reform. Greater North Dakota Chamber President and CEO Arik Spencer says his organization is among a coalition of groups being assembled to fight [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":153268,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=153266"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":153270,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153266\/revisions\/153270"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/153268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=153266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=153266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=153266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}