{"id":29266,"date":"2021-03-01T09:07:42","date_gmt":"2021-03-01T15:07:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ceo-na.com\/?p=29266"},"modified":"2021-03-01T09:07:42","modified_gmt":"2021-03-01T15:07:42","slug":"virginia-lawmakers-vote-to-legalize-marijuana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/news\/virginia-lawmakers-vote-to-legalize-marijuana\/","title":{"rendered":"Virginia lawmakers vote to legalize marijuana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The move makes Virginia the first Southern state to legalize marijuana following 15 other states and the District of Columbia. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Virginia lawmakers approved a bill on Saturday that would legalize the sale and recreational use of marijuana as of 2024.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Virginia House Speaker Eileen Filler-Corn applauded her colleagues in both chambers for passing the measure.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe House and Senate took a strong step in legalizing the sale and possession of Marijuana here in the Commonwealth,\u201d said\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EFillerCorn\/status\/1365827785227440132?s=20\">Filler-Corn on Twitter<\/a>. \u201cThis legislation will make our criminal justice system fairer and help end the targeting of black and brown communities over the possession of cannabis.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The legislation now goes to Democratic Gov. Ralph Northam, who supports legalization, for his signature.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The move makes Virginia the first Southern state to legalize  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":29277,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1338],"tags":[4486,4485,631],"class_list":["post-29266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-legislation","tag-virginia","tag-marijuana"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29266"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29281,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29266\/revisions\/29281"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}