{"id":931,"date":"2005-06-16T19:54:25","date_gmt":"2005-06-16T23:54:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/wordpress\/?p=931"},"modified":"2005-06-16T19:54:25","modified_gmt":"2005-06-16T23:54:25","slug":"hinchey-rohrabacher-amendment-defeated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=931","title":{"rendered":"Hinchey-Rohrabacher Amendment defeated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, the House voted 264-161 against the <a href=\"http:\/\/ga0.org\/campaign\/hinchey2005\/explanation\">Hinchey-Rohrabacher Amendment<\/a>, which would have prevented the federal government &#8220;from arresting, raiding or prosecuting patients who are abiding by state medical marijuana laws&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/8241829\">This is a transcript<\/a> of the conversation Joe Scarborough had last night with Montel Williams, who uses medical marijuana to alleviate the neuralgic pain of M.S..  Nikos A. Leverenz at <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.drugpolicy.org\/2005\/06\/montel-williams-hits-home-run.html\">D&#8217;Alliance<\/a> writes that Scarborough &#8220;stated outright at the end of the program that he was against medical marijuana while in Congress, but after listening to Montel Williams he was all for it.&#8221;  The transcript ends on a very different note, with Joe telling Montel he would be in &#8220;our thoughts and prayers&#8221;, but the comment can still be heard on the video.<\/p>\n<p>It should have been included in the print version, as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, the House voted 264-161 against the Hinchey-Rohrabacher Amendment, which would have prevented the federal government &#8220;from arresting, raiding or prosecuting patients who are abiding by state medical marijuana laws&#8221;. This is a transcript of the conversation Joe Scarborough had &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=931\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-f1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/931\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}