{"id":18647,"date":"2017-08-17T04:00:20","date_gmt":"2017-08-17T12:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2017\/08\/17\/two-states-rebut-ag-sessions-critiques-of-their-cannabis-laws\/"},"modified":"2017-08-17T12:59:01","modified_gmt":"2017-08-17T20:59:01","slug":"two-states-rebut-ag-sessions-critiques-of-their-cannabis-laws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2017\/08\/17\/two-states-rebut-ag-sessions-critiques-of-their-cannabis-laws\/","title":{"rendered":"Two states rebut AG Sessions\u2019 critiques of their cannabis laws"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>Governors in at least two states that have legalized recreational marijuana are pushing back against the Trump administration and defending their efforts to regulate the industry.<\/p>\n<p>Alaska Gov. Bill Walker, a former Republican, sent a letter to U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions this week asking the Department of Justice to maintain the Obama administration\u2019s more hands-off enforcement approach to states that have legalized the drug.<\/p>\n<p>The letter comes after Sessions sent responses recently to the governors of Alaska, Colorado, Oregon and Washington state after they asked the attorney general to allow the cannabis experiments to continue in the first four<\/p>\n<p> &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/mjbizdaily.com\/two-states-rebut-ag-sessions-critiques-cannabis-laws\/\">Two states rebut AG Sessions\u2019 critiques of their cannabis laws<\/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\/two-states-rebut-ag-sessions-critiques-cannabis-laws\/\" target=\"_blank\">Two states rebut AG Sessions\u2019 critiques of their cannabis laws<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Governors in at least two states that have legalized recreational marijuana are pushing back against the Trump administration and defending their efforts to regulate the industry. Alaska Gov. Bill Walker, a former Republican, sent a letter to U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions this week asking the Department of Justice to<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2017\/08\/17\/two-states-rebut-ag-sessions-critiques-of-their-cannabis-laws\/\">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":[785,402,4,14,861,10,257,7,1059,471],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18647"}],"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=18647"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18648,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18647\/revisions\/18648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}