{"id":17235,"date":"2018-04-20T16:18:43","date_gmt":"2018-04-20T23:18:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=17235"},"modified":"2018-04-20T16:18:43","modified_gmt":"2018-04-20T23:18:43","slug":"not-4-20-friendly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2018\/04\/20\/not-4-20-friendly\/","title":{"rendered":"not 4-20 friendly"},"content":{"rendered":"

Worthwhile to note, states that have legalized Cannibis — or at least Washington and Oregon — have it such that counties or municipalities can opt out.\u00c2\u00a0 I suppose you scavenge for votes, and allow for “community standards” to work.<\/p>\n

Such is the wackiness that ensues that a recall effort happened for the council members of Madras, Oregon because they didn’t ban the drug.<\/p>\n

And then you have to ponder the creeping in of outlaw border business<\/a>…<\/p>\n

Richland’s council banned\u00c2\u00a0marijuana-related activities on a 3-2 vote in 2014\u00c2\u00a0after Washington voters approved Initiative 502, legalizing recreational marijuana two years earlier.<\/em><\/p>\n

The measure was unpopular locally, leading Richland, along with Kennewick, Pasco, West Richland and Franklin County, to enact bans on retail stores, growing, processing and community pot gardens.<\/em><\/p>\n

Benton County did not initially ban marijuana, but is\u00c2\u00a0weighing a permanent after-the-fact moratorium\u00c2\u00a0now after complaints arose about the concentration of activities in unincorporated areas such as Finley and near West Richland.\u00c2\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Sure.\u00c2\u00a0 Do you have to swab the rooms extra-tightly in those areas to make extra sure the smoke doesn’t drift out of Finley lest West Richland get a contact high, which\u00c2\u00a0would make for a contact crime?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Worthwhile to note, states that have legalized Cannibis — or at least Washington and Oregon — have it such that counties or municipalities can opt out.\u00c2\u00a0 I suppose you scavenge for votes, and allow for “community standards” to work. Such is the wackiness that ensues that a recall effort happened for the council members of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17235"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17236,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17235\/revisions\/17236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}