{"id":19176,"date":"2017-09-07T02:30:55","date_gmt":"2017-09-07T10:30:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2017\/09\/07\/marijuana-executives-making-push-into-mainstream-politics\/"},"modified":"2017-09-07T12:58:45","modified_gmt":"2017-09-07T20:58:45","slug":"marijuana-executives-making-push-into-mainstream-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2017\/09\/07\/marijuana-executives-making-push-into-mainstream-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"Marijuana executives making push into mainstream politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><strong>By John Schroyer<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Cannabis entrepreneur Todd Mitchem announced in\u00a0a late-August email blast that he\u2019s running for Congress, and the subject line even referred to the Coloradan as a \u201cmarijuana industry leader.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s one of at least five current candidates for public office around the United States who have direct professional connections to marijuana.<span id=\"more-74101\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And,<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>like Mitchem, they\u2019re all quite open about those ties.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere was a time, not that long ago, that being for marijuana would be considered a weakness in running for office. Now, not only is it not a weakness, but it\u2019s a perceived strength,\u201d said Michael Bronstein,<\/p>\n<p> &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/mjbizdaily.com\/marijuana-emissariesoperatives-making-push-mainstream-politics\/\">Marijuana executives making push into mainstream politics<\/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\/marijuana-emissariesoperatives-making-push-mainstream-politics\/\" target=\"_blank\">Marijuana executives making push into mainstream politics<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By John Schroyer Cannabis entrepreneur Todd Mitchem announced in\u00a0a late-August email blast that he\u2019s running for Congress, and the subject line even referred to the Coloradan as a \u201cmarijuana industry leader.\u201d He\u2019s one of at least five current candidates for public office around the United States who have direct professional<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2017\/09\/07\/marijuana-executives-making-push-into-mainstream-politics\/\">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":[1506,1507,28,14,1508,39,18,1460,1509,1510,1511,294,1512],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19176"}],"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=19176"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19177,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19176\/revisions\/19177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}