{"id":2118,"date":"2016-11-29T14:14:14","date_gmt":"2016-11-29T19:14:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/?p=2118"},"modified":"2016-11-29T14:14:14","modified_gmt":"2016-11-29T19:14:14","slug":"smoke-sessions-hits-capitol-hill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/?p=2118","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Smoke Sessions&#8221; hits Capitol Hill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/D_SRru006mE?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>And so it was that activists from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dcmj.org\" target=\"_blank\">DC Cannabis Coalition<\/a> convened at the office of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sessions.senate.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL),<\/a> Trump&#8217;s nominee for Attorney General, to discuss the Senator&#8217;s recent remarks that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/badpeoplemap\/badpeoplemap.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;good people don&#8217;t smoke marijuana&#8221;&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/capitolhillNov2816fotos\/capitolhillNov2816-11.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/capitolhillNov2816fotos\/capitolhillNov2816-11_600w.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"335\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<strong>&#8220;We don&#8217;t want to go back to jail&#8221;<\/strong> says DCMJ&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/aeidinger\" target=\"_blank\">Adam Eidinger,<\/a> speaking to the press outside Sen. Sessions office before going in to deliver personal letters for the Senator and a cordial meeting with Sessions&#8217; communications directors.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/capitolhillNov2816fotos\/capitolhillNov2816-02.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/capitolhillNov2816fotos\/capitolhillNov2816-02_600w.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Yep, that&#8217;s right. Sen. Sessions&#8217; office actually made time<\/strong> to listen to us. Later, however, at the office of Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY), newly-elected Senate Minority Leader&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/capitolhillNov2816fotos\/capitolhillNov2816-10.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/capitolhillNov2816fotos\/capitolhillNov2816-10_600w.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"335\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<strong>No aide, no personal assistant, no communications director,<\/strong> nobody from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.schumer.senate.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sen. Schumer&#8217;s office<\/a> could make so much as five minutes to speak with us. This was &#8220;typical&#8221; of the Democrats, commented Eidinger, &#8220;we have no allies here at all.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/capitolhillNov2816fotos\/capitolhillNov2816-06.jpg\"  target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/capitolhillNov2816fotos\/capitolhillNov2816-06_600w.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><\/a><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Sen. Sessions, Sen. Schumer? Here it is, the &#8220;Liberty Cap&#8221;. <\/strong>Take a look. Go ahead, TAKE A <em>GOOD, STEAMY GAWK.<\/em> We&#8217;ll be back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And so it was that activists from the DC Cannabis Coalition convened at the office of Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL), Trump&#8217;s nominee for Attorney General, to discuss the Senator&#8217;s recent remarks that &#8220;good people don&#8217;t smoke marijuana&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64,7,5,132,762],"tags":[569,568,763],"class_list":["post-2118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dc-local","category-elections","category-liberty","category-party-animals","category-trumpism","tag-legalization","tag-marijuana","tag-sessions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2118","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=2118"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2122,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2118\/revisions\/2122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}