{"id":46837,"date":"2022-04-01T11:23:56","date_gmt":"2022-04-01T18:23:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=46837"},"modified":"2022-04-01T11:23:56","modified_gmt":"2022-04-01T18:23:56","slug":"house-approves-bill-legalizing-marijuana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=46837","title":{"rendered":"House approves bill legalizing marijuana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The House passed legislation on Friday to legalize marijuana nationwide and eliminate the longstanding criminal penalties for anyone who distributes or possesses it.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Lawmakers passed the bill largely along party lines, 220-204, with three Republicans joining all but two Democrats in support.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The measure now goes to the Senate, where Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) is working with fellow Democrats to introduce a marijuana legalization bill as soon as this spring.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The House passed legislation on Friday&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46837"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46838,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46837\/revisions\/46838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}