{"id":119,"date":"2015-04-20T16:28:27","date_gmt":"2015-04-20T16:28:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/getnugg.com\/blog\/?p=119"},"modified":"2019-01-31T14:11:41","modified_gmt":"2019-01-31T22:11:41","slug":"marijuana-news-4-20-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/getnugg.com\/blog\/marijuana-news-4-20-15\/","title":{"rendered":"Marijuana News 4\/20\/15: Gateway Drugs, Chris Christie &#038; Obama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">April 20. Ahh, yes, April 20. 4\/20. Cannabis appreciation day in our book.\u00a0Here&#8217;s are roundup of the best marijuana news segments of the day.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"container-fluid contents-list\">\n<div class=\"container\">\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-md-8 col-md-offset-2\">\n<div class=\"dk-content\">\n<h2>What you'll learn in this post:<\/h2>\n<p class=\"description\">[Click any of the section titles below to jump there]<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a class=' _mPS2id-h mPS2id-highlight _ps2id' href='#1' data-ps2id-offset=''>Washington Post Shreds 'Gateway Drug' Label<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=' _mPS2id-h mPS2id-highlight _ps2id' href='#2' data-ps2id-offset=''>Christie Out of Step with His Own Party<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=' _mPS2id-h mPS2id-highlight _ps2id' href='#3' data-ps2id-offset=''>Obama Supports Legalizing Medicinal Cannabis<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"container\">\n<div class=\"content\" id=\"content-container\">\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-md-8 col-md-offset-2\">\n<div class=\"dk-content\">\n<div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h2 id=\"1\"><strong>Washington Post Shreds &#8220;Gateway Drug&#8221; Label<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">Today, the Washington Post took a hard look at the theory that Marijuana is \u2018gateway drug\u2019 leading to use of harder substances. Although that theory was first introduced in 1937, it has yet to be verified by any legitimate research. If anything, increased access to marijuana seems to lower rates of opiate overdoses.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">Read it here:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/morning-mix\/wp\/2015\/04\/20\/today-is-4202015-is-it-finally-time-to-stop-calling-marijuana-a-gateway-drug\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Washington Post<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"2\"><strong>Christie Out of Step with His Own Party\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">New Jersey Governor and possible presidential candidate Chris Christie made headlines last week when he asserted that legalizing pot would open a Pandora\u2019s box of drug use across the country. He may have been hoping to energize his base in light of slipping poll numbers, but the opposite seems to be occurring.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\"><i>Reason<\/i>, a Libertarian magazine, calls Christie out on his unrealistic assertion that the federal government could stop state-licensed marijuana business. With California likely joining the list of states repealing marijuana prohibition, it would be almost impossible to put the genie back in the bottle.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">A Pew poll conducted last month shows that a majority of Americans (59%) believe the Federal Government should not interfere with states that allow marijuana sales. Even more disconcerting for the Republican governor, 54% of Republicans also believe the Fed should have a hands off approach when it comes to legal cannabis. Stay tuned to see if Christie \u2018evolves\u2019 on the issue as most of the country has done.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">Read it here:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/jacobsullum\/2015\/04\/15\/why-chris-christies-vow-to-suppress-marijuana-legalization-is-politically-foolish\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Forbes<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h2 id=\"3\"><strong>Obama Supports Legalizing Medicinal Cannabis<\/strong><\/h2>\n<div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">In a CNN documentary<i> Weed 3: The Marijuana Revolution<\/i> that aired last night, Dr. Sanjay Gupta spoke with President Barack Obama about medicinal and recreational marijuana.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">Obama elaborated on his support for medicinal cannabis:<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>\u201cI\u2019m on record as saying that not only do I think carefully prescribed medical use of marijuana may\u00a0 in fact be appropriate and we should follow the science as opposed to ideology on this issue, but I\u2019m also on record as saying that the more we treat some of these issues related to drug abuse from a public health model and not just from an incarceration model, the better off we\u2019re going to be.\u201d<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">He also read the (pot) tea leaves and sees more states legalizing marijuana is an inevitability.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">Happy 4\/20 from Nugg!<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; April 20. 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Cannabis appreciation day in our book.\u00a0Here&#8217;s are roundup of the best marijuana news segments of the day. &nbsp; &nbsp; Washington Post Shreds &#8220;Gateway Drug&#8221; Label &nbsp; Today, the Washington Post took a hard look at the theory that Marijuana is \u2018gateway drug\u2019 leading to use of harder [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":121,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1092,8,122,1084],"tags":[37,36,10,21,35,38],"class_list":["post-119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-advocacy","category-cannabis","category-culture","category-marijuana-laws","tag-dr-sanjay-gupta","tag-marijuana-news","tag-medical-marijuana","tag-obama","tag-poll","tag-recreational"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/getnugg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/getnugg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/getnugg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/getnugg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/getnugg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/getnugg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/getnugg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/getnugg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/getnugg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/getnugg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}