{"id":5222,"date":"2012-09-19T12:48:41","date_gmt":"2012-09-19T18:48:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/?p=5222"},"modified":"2012-09-19T12:48:41","modified_gmt":"2012-09-19T18:48:41","slug":"many-of-us-assumed-40-years-ago-that-marijuana-would-be-legal-and-taxed-by-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/election\/many-of-us-assumed-40-years-ago-that-marijuana-would-be-legal-and-taxed-by-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Many of us assumed 40 years ago that marijuana would be legal and taxed by now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Legalization is on the ballot in Colorado, Oregon, and Washington state.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/wireStory\/pot-tax-windfall-skeptics-abound-17272586#.UFoTCJXnYpb\">Pot Could Be Tax Windfall, but Skeptics Abound &#8211; ABC News<\/a> <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&quot;Marijuana can be regulated, can be taxed, can be sold. We&#8217;re doing it now, just currently to sick people,&quot; said Vicente, the lawyer working on the Colorado legalization campaign.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Legalization is on the ballot in Colorado, Oregon, and Washington state. Pot Could Be Tax Windfall, but Skeptics Abound &#8211; ABC News &quot;Marijuana can be regulated, can be taxed, can be sold. We&#8217;re doing it now, just currently to sick people,&quot; said Vicente, the lawyer working on the Colorado legalization campaign.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5222"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5223,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5222\/revisions\/5223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}