{"id":174840,"date":"2019-07-01T14:44:55","date_gmt":"2019-07-01T19:44:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=174840"},"modified":"2019-07-01T14:45:17","modified_gmt":"2019-07-01T19:45:17","slug":"push-to-legalize-recreational-marijuana-to-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=174840","title":{"rendered":"Push to legalize recreational marijuana to start"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-152771\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/marijunanaplant.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"259\" height=\"194\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/marijunanaplant.jpg 259w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/marijunanaplant-234x175.jpg 234w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 259px) 100vw, 259px\" \/>FARGO, N.D. (AP) \u2014 A group that pushed to legalize marijuana in North Dakota last year is back for another try.<\/p>\n<p>Legalize ND expects to submit a new proposed initiative to the secretary of state\u2019s office soon. The group\u2019s leader, David Owen, said the new measure will be far more specific than the one that voters soundly defeated in November.<\/p>\n<p>The group\u2019s proposal would limit possession to 2 ounces, and wouldn\u2019t allow home growing. It also calls for child-resistant packaging and no marketing to children. Owen said it also would prohibit smoking in public or in vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>The group needs about 13,450 signatures for the initiative to be approved for next year\u2019s ballot. Owen said he expected signature-gathering to begin in August, several months earlier than last time around.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FARGO, N.D. (AP) \u2014 A group that pushed to legalize marijuana in North Dakota last year is back for another try. Legalize ND expects to submit a new proposed initiative to the secretary of state\u2019s office soon. The group\u2019s leader, David Owen, said the new measure will be far more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-174840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174840","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=174840"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":174842,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174840\/revisions\/174842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=174840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=174840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=174840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}