{"id":1707,"date":"2004-11-13T23:27:00","date_gmt":"2004-11-13T23:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=1707"},"modified":"2017-09-20T13:25:06","modified_gmt":"2017-09-20T18:25:06","slug":"1707","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2004\/11\/13\/1707\/","title":{"rendered":"Fortunately for Law and Order, It&#8217;s Soon To Be a Federal Offense"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Voters in Columbia, Missouri have apparently passed referenda decriminalizing the possession of small amounts of marijuana:  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/stltoday\/news\/stories.nsf\/stlouiscitycounty\/story\/DC2E7ADE1FF91B3F86256F4B006FBFEF?OpenDocument&#038;Headline=Voters+cut+marijuana+penalties++\" target=\"_new\">Voters cut marijuana penalties<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Decriminalization means if you&#8217;re caught in the city with a small amount of marijuana, &#8220;you don&#8217;t get arrested, you don&#8217;t go to jail, and you don&#8217;t get a record,&#8221; according to Dan Viets, a Columbia defense attorney who helped spearhead the effort to pass the propositions. He&#8217;s also defended clients against marijuana charges here for 18 years.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Fortunately, though, the United States Congress will undoubtedly move quickly to make it a Federal crime to possess a joint to cover situations such as this where residents of a particular area try to determine their own standards of behavior.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Voters in Columbia, Missouri have apparently passed referenda decriminalizing the possession of small amounts of marijuana: Voters cut marijuana penalties: Decriminalization means if you&#8217;re caught in the city with a small amount of marijuana, &#8220;you don&#8217;t get arrested, you don&#8217;t go to jail, and you don&#8217;t get a record,&#8221; according to Dan Viets, a Columbia [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1707"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16939,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1707\/revisions\/16939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}