{"id":8068,"date":"2011-03-31T08:44:22","date_gmt":"2011-03-31T15:44:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/?p=8068"},"modified":"2011-03-31T08:44:24","modified_gmt":"2011-03-31T15:44:24","slug":"dem-rep-jared-polis-calls-on-congress-to-end-marijuana-prohibition-the-raw-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/2011\/03\/dem-rep-jared-polis-calls-on-congress-to-end-marijuana-prohibition-the-raw-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Dem Rep. Jared Polis calls on Congress to end marijuana prohibition | The Raw Story"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Dem Rep. Jared Polis calls on Congress to end marijuana prohibition | The Raw Story<\/a>: “WASHINGTON \u2013 Speaking alongside industry advocates, U.S. Rep. Jared Polis (D-CO) called Wednesday for Congress to end the prohibition on marijuana, stressing the need to reduce drug violence while hailing the medical cannabis market’s capacity for growing the economy.<\/p>\n

‘Ending the failed policy of prohibition with regard to marijuana will strike a major blow against the criminal cartels that are terrorizing Americans and Mexicans on both sides of the border,’ Polis said at the National Press Club, in response to a question from Raw Story.<\/p>\n

‘It’s been estimated that the drug cartels drive about half of their revenue from marijuana, so I think it would reduce the violence by half, and reduce the money that fuels the criminal enterprises by half.’<\/p>\n

Organized by the National Cannabis Industry Association (NCIA), a lobbying and trade group for the industry, the event featured anti-prohibition advocates and owners of medical marijuana businesses speaking out against the burdensome federal regulations they face.”<\/p>\n

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Dem Rep. Jared Polis calls on Congress to end marijuana prohibition | The Raw Story: “WASHINGTON \u2013 Speaking alongside industry advocates, U.S. Rep. Jared Polis (D-CO) called Wednesday for Congress to end the prohibition on marijuana, stressing the need to reduce drug violence while hailing the medical cannabis market’s capacity for growing the economy. ‘Ending … Continue reading Dem Rep. Jared Polis calls on Congress to end marijuana prohibition | The Raw Story<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4RRl-268","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8068"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8068\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8069,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8068\/revisions\/8069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}