{"id":7969,"date":"2022-05-29T14:15:03","date_gmt":"2022-05-29T14:15:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=7969"},"modified":"2022-05-29T14:15:03","modified_gmt":"2022-05-29T14:15:03","slug":"why-do-gop-lawmakers-still-oppose-legalizing-weed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=7969","title":{"rendered":"Why Do GOP Lawmakers Still Oppose Legalizing Weed?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\n\n“a majority of registered voters in all 50 states now favor making cannabis legal, according to state-level polling data from Civiqs<\/a>. Support ranges from a low of 52 percent in North Dakota to a high of 81 percent in Vermont and Washington.”
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“the U.S. House passed legislation<\/a> that would decriminalize marijuana at the federal level.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not everyone is on board with those policy changes, though.\u00a0Over 200 House Republicans voted against the legislation<\/a>, while only three voted for it. (By comparison, over 200 House Democrats voted for the legislation, while only two voted against it.) That partisan opposition means the bill will\u00a0almost certainly die in the U.S. Senate<\/a>.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/fivethirtyeight.com\/features\/why-do-gop-lawmakers-still-oppose-legalizing-weed\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“a majority of registered voters in all 50 states now favor making cannabis legal, according to state-level polling data from Civiqs. Support ranges from a low of 52 percent in North Dakota to a high of 81 percent in Vermont and Washington.”<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

“the U.S. House passed legislation that would decriminalize marijuana at the federal level.
\nNot everyone is on board with those policy changes, though. Over 200 House Republicans voted against the legislation, while only three voted for it. (By comparison, over 200 House Democrats voted for the legislation, while only two voted against it.) That partisan opposition means the bill will almost certainly die in the U.S. Senate.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[987,292,968,506],"class_list":["post-7969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-legalization","tag-marijuana","tag-republican-party","tag-republicans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7969"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7970,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7969\/revisions\/7970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}