{"id":1523,"date":"2014-07-12T22:06:57","date_gmt":"2014-07-13T02:06:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/?p=1523"},"modified":"2014-07-12T22:19:07","modified_gmt":"2014-07-13T02:19:07","slug":"these-hands-have-been-touched-by-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/?p=1523","title":{"rendered":"These Hands Have Been Touched By God!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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As most of you in DC will recall, the City Council voted to decriminalize marijuana<\/a> some months back. Predictably — and unlike any other city in the United States — this law passed by a local government is being interfered with<\/a> by the Congress of the United States, in the form of an amendment to an appropriations bill prohibiting Federal and city money to administer the new law, introduced by a no-name clown from Maryland named Andy Harris.<\/a><\/p>\n

The prevailing opinion among legalization and home rule advocates in DC is that if Rep. Harris<\/a> wants to help govern the city of Washington, DC, he should become an official resident and run for City Council.<\/a><\/p>\n

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As most of you in DC will recall, the City Council voted to decriminalize marijuana some months back. Predictably — and unlike any other city in the United States — this law passed by a local government is being interfered with by the Congress of the United States, in the form of an amendment to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64,7,20,5,132,8],"tags":[89,590,591,569,568],"class_list":["post-1523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dc-local","category-elections","category-health-care","category-liberty","category-party-animals","category-right-wingnuts","tag-dc","tag-decriminalization","tag-inititative-71","tag-legalization","tag-marijuana"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1523"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1528,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1523\/revisions\/1528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}