{"id":9279,"date":"2022-11-11T16:31:20","date_gmt":"2022-11-11T16:31:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=9279"},"modified":"2022-11-11T16:31:20","modified_gmt":"2022-11-11T16:31:20","slug":"pot-prohibition-continues-collapsing-and-psychedelic-bans-could-be-next","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=9279","title":{"rendered":"Pot Prohibition Continues Collapsing, and Psychedelic Bans Could Be Next"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p> &#8220;Voters on Tuesday approved the legalization of recreational marijuana in\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2022\/11\/08\/maryland-becomes-the-20th-state-to-legalize-recreational-marijuana\/\" target=\"_blank\">Maryland<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2022\/11\/09\/missouri-becomes-the-21st-state-to-legalize-recreational-marijuana\/\" target=\"_blank\">Missouri<\/a>\u00a0while rejecting similar measures in\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2022\/11\/09\/arkansas-voters-reject-marijuana-legalization\/\" target=\"_blank\">Arkansas<\/a>,\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2022\/11\/08\/north-dakota-voters-reject-marijuana-legalization\/\" target=\"_blank\">North Dakota<\/a>, and\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2022\/11\/09\/south-dakotans-say-no-to-marijuana-legalization-after-saying-yes-two-years-ago\/\" target=\"_blank\">South Dakota<\/a>. Meanwhile, voters in five Texas cities\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.marijuanamoment.net\/texas-voters-in-five-cities-approve-marijuana-decriminalization-ballot-initiatives\/\" target=\"_blank\">passed<\/a>\u00a0ballot measures that bar local police from issuing citations or making arrests for low-level marijuana possession. But the most striking election result for drug policy reformers looking beyond the ongoing collapse of marijuana prohibition happened in Colorado, where a\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2022\/10\/27\/colorado-voters-will-soon-decide-whether-to-decriminalize-5-natural-psychedelics\/\" target=\"_blank\">broad psychedelic decriminalization measure<\/a>\u00a0is winning by\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2022\/11\/08\/us\/elections\/results-colorado-proposition-122-decriminalize-and-regulate-certain-psychedelics.html\" target=\"_blank\">two points<\/a>\u00a0with 80 percent of votes counted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>Prior to yesterday&#8217;s elections,\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/medicalmarijuana.procon.org\/legal-medical-marijuana-states-and-dc\/\" target=\"_blank\">37 states<\/a>\u00a0had approved marijuana for medical purposes, and\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/marijuana.procon.org\/legal-recreational-marijuana-states-and-dc\/\" target=\"_blank\">19 of them<\/a>\u00a0also had legalized recreational use. The Maryland and Missouri results raise the latter number to 21.&#8221;<br><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2022\/11\/09\/pot-and-psychedelics-rack-up-wins-at-the-ballot-box\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/reason.com\/2022\/11\/09\/pot-and-psychedelics-rack-up-wins-at-the-ballot-box\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Voters on Tuesday approved the legalization of recreational marijuana in Maryland and Missouri while rejecting similar measures in Arkansas, North Dakota, and South Dakota. Meanwhile, voters in five Texas cities passed ballot measures that bar local police from issuing citations or making arrests for low-level marijuana possession. But the most striking election result for drug policy reformers looking beyond the ongoing collapse of marijuana prohibition happened in Colorado, where a broad psychedelic decriminalization measure is winning by two points with 80 percent of votes counted.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to yesterday&#8217;s elections, 37 states had approved marijuana for medical purposes, and 19 of them also had legalized recreational use. The Maryland and Missouri results raise the latter number to 21.&#8221;<\/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":[321,800,439,372,198,987,292,1757,386],"class_list":["post-9279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-ban","tag-bans","tag-drugs","tag-election","tag-elections","tag-legalization","tag-marijuana","tag-psychedelics","tag-voters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9279","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=9279"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9280,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9279\/revisions\/9280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}