{"id":2727,"date":"2019-05-15T09:37:10","date_gmt":"2019-05-15T13:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/?p=2727"},"modified":"2019-05-15T09:37:10","modified_gmt":"2019-05-15T13:37:10","slug":"dc-council-give-us-a-fair-shot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/?p=2727","title":{"rendered":"DC Council: Give US a &#8220;Fair Shot&#8221;!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" style=\"border: 0px none; margin: 0px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/DCMJfairshot\/DCMJfarmersmarketposter_crop650w.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"650\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Needless to say, we at DCMJ have some issues<\/strong> with the initial draft of DC Mayor Bowser&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/dcmj.org\/feedback-requested-dcmj-suggestions-for-cannabis-reform-legislation\/\" target=\"_blank\">reforms to DC cannabis legislation<\/a> \u2013 among them a prohibition on the free distribution of cannabis for advocacy purposes, restrictions on the cannabis &#8220;gifting economy&#8221; that&#8217;s sprung up in DC in lieu of regulated legal sales, and the continued denial of access to the legal cannabis market for small-scale growers in DC.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" style=\"border: 0px none; margin: 0px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/DCMJfairshot\/DCMJspotthedifference650w.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"650\" \/><br \/>\nI should be able to go to Eastern Market on Sundays and get a quarter of Capitol Hill Kush at the same place I get my tomatoes, apple cider and craft whiskey. DCMJ calls on the DC government to follow through on Mayor Bowser&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/dmgeo.dc.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/dc\/sites\/dmgeo\/publication\/attachments\/PathwaytoProsperity.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;fair shot&#8221;<\/a> rhetoric and give DC&#8217;s small-batch cannbis growers a <a href=\"https:\/\/dcyac.dc.gov\/release\/mayor-bowser-rolls-out-fair-shot-investments\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;fair shot&#8221;<\/a> \u2013 and end the prohibition on the sale of cannabis by small-batch growers.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" style=\"border: 0px none; margin: 0px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/DCMJfairshot\/DCMJfarmersmarketposter650w.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"280\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>&#8220;Don&#8217;t Cut DC Out&#8221;<\/em><br \/>\n11&#215;17 inch <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/DCMJfairshot\/DCMJfarmersmarketposter.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">medium-res .jpg image,<\/a> 1.2mb<br \/>\n11&#215;17 inch <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/DCMJfairshot\/DCMJfarmersmarketposter300dpi.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">high-res .jpg image,<\/a> 3.2mb<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>&#8220;Spot The Difference&#8221;<\/em><br \/>\n11&#215;11 inch <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/DCMJfairshot\/DCMJspotthedifference.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">medium-res .jpg image,<\/a> 986kb<br \/>\n11&#215;11 inch <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/DCMJfairshot\/DCMJspotthedifference300dpi.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">high-res .jpg image,<\/a> 2.3mb<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Needless to say, we at DCMJ have some issues with the initial draft of DC Mayor Bowser&#8217;s reforms to DC cannabis legislation \u2013 among them a prohibition on the free distribution of cannabis for advocacy purposes, restrictions on the cannabis &#8220;gifting economy&#8221; that&#8217;s sprung up in DC in lieu of regulated legal sales, and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64,5],"tags":[983,982,576,568,838],"class_list":["post-2727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dc-local","category-liberty","tag-fair-shot","tag-bowser","tag-cannabis","tag-marijuana","tag-marijuana-legalization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2727","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=2727"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2732,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2727\/revisions\/2732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}