{"id":19308,"date":"2015-04-03T17:42:29","date_gmt":"2015-04-03T22:42:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=19308"},"modified":"2015-04-04T14:26:10","modified_gmt":"2015-04-04T19:26:10","slug":"wichita-ballot-initiative-seeks-to-lessen-penalties-for-marijuana-possesion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=19308","title":{"rendered":"Wichita ballot initiative seeks to lessen penalties for Marijuana possesion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">WICHITA, Kan. (AP) \u2014 Some lawmakers and state officials are ramping up the pressure against a Wichita ballot initiative that seeks to ease penalties for possessing small amounts of marijuana.<\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">But supporters of the measure are also pushing back after crashing their news conference Friday in front of the Sedgwick County courthouse.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The issue is on the ballot for Tuesday&#8217;s election in Wichita.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The proposed ordinance does not legalize marijuana. It makes first-time possession a criminal infraction with a $50 fine. Under state law, it is a misdemeanor punishable by a fine of up to $2,500 and a year in jail.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Opponents contend the city has no legal authority to adopt an ordinance that conflicts with state law.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Supporters say people should vote for the measure anyway to send the Legislature a message.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WICHITA, Kan. (AP) \u2014 Some lawmakers and state officials are ramping up the pressure against a Wichita ballot initiative that seeks to ease penalties for&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":126,"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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3397],"tags":[809,5287,782,2577,1716],"class_list":["post-19308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-area-news","tag-kansas-legislature","tag-legislature","tag-marijuana","tag-pot","tag-wichita"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/126"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19308"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19314,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19308\/revisions\/19314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}