{"id":23320,"date":"2018-01-23T17:53:29","date_gmt":"2018-01-23T17:53:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radiofree.asia\/?guid=2151736ec6052aaa09b27074e83ed227"},"modified":"2018-01-23T17:53:29","modified_gmt":"2018-01-23T17:53:29","slug":"clearing-the-fog-on-jeff-sessions-assault-on-marijuana-legalization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2018\/01\/23\/clearing-the-fog-on-jeff-sessions-assault-on-marijuana-legalization\/","title":{"rendered":"Clearing the FOG on Jeff Sessions&#8217; Assault on Marijuana Legalization"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jeff Sessions, head of the Department of Justice, reversed the \u201cCole Memo\u201d that allowed states to pursue marijuana legalization without fear of the federal government stepping in and prosecuting the marijuana industry. Sessions is leaving it up to each state\u2019s federal prosecutor to decide on how to proceed. This happened just as\u00a0California moved to implement legal marijuana and Vermont voted to legalize marijuana. We speak with Justin Strekal, policy director for the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML), and Doug McVay, a long time advocate for drug law reform at the state and national level and editor of Drug War Facts, about what lies ahead for the movement to end marijuana prohibition. For more information, visit www.ClearingtheFOGRadio.org.<\/p>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/clearingthefogradioshow.libsyn.com\/clearing-the-fog-on-jeff-sessions-assault-on-marijuana-legalization\">Clearing the FOG with co-hosts Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeff Sessions, head of the Department of Justice, reversed the \u201cCole Memo\u201d that allowed states to pursue marijuana legalization without fear of the federal government stepping in and prosecuting the marijuana industry. Sessions is leaving it up to each&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23320"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23320"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23321,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23320\/revisions\/23321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}