{"id":18360,"date":"2017-08-07T04:00:45","date_gmt":"2017-08-07T12:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2017\/08\/07\/ag-sessions-questions-cannabis-regulatory-efficacy-in-co-wa\/"},"modified":"2017-08-07T12:48:11","modified_gmt":"2017-08-07T20:48:11","slug":"ag-sessions-questions-cannabis-regulatory-efficacy-in-co-wa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2017\/08\/07\/ag-sessions-questions-cannabis-regulatory-efficacy-in-co-wa\/","title":{"rendered":"AG Sessions questions cannabis regulatory efficacy in CO, WA"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thecannabist.co\/2017\/08\/04\/jeff-sessions-colorado-marijuana-letter-hickenlooper\/85404\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">contacted the governors<\/a> of Colorado and Washington state\u00a0and, using parallel language, questioned the effectiveness of state regulations designed to comply with the 2013 Cole Memo.<\/p>\n<p>In letters to Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper and Washington state Gov. Jay Inslee, Sessions referenced reports from the High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area (HIDTA), which compiled information in 2016 about general effects of cannabis legalization in both states, the Denver Post reported.<\/p>\n<p>The attorney general suggested the first two recreational marijuana states haven\u2019t done an adequate job of controlling cannabis production.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis report raises serious questions<\/p>\n<p> &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/mjbizdaily.com\/ag-sessions-questions-cannabis-regulatory-efficacy-co-wa\/\">AG Sessions questions cannabis regulatory efficacy in CO, WA<\/a> is a post from: <a href=\"http:\/\/mjbizdaily.com\">Marijuana Business Daily: Financial, Legal &amp; Cannabusiness news for cannabis entrepreneurs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nRead More: <a href=\"https:\/\/mjbizdaily.com\/ag-sessions-questions-cannabis-regulatory-efficacy-co-wa\/\" target=\"_blank\">AG Sessions questions cannabis regulatory efficacy in CO, WA<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions has contacted the governors of Colorado and Washington state\u00a0and, using parallel language, questioned the effectiveness of state regulations designed to comply with the 2013 Cole Memo. In letters to Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper and Washington state Gov. Jay Inslee, Sessions referenced reports from the High<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2017\/08\/07\/ag-sessions-questions-cannabis-regulatory-efficacy-in-co-wa\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,16,14,861,10,7,1059,471],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18360"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18360"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18361,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18360\/revisions\/18361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}