{"id":20459,"date":"2017-10-20T12:48:54","date_gmt":"2017-10-20T20:48:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2017\/10\/20\/new-zealand-to-hold-recreational-cannabis-referendum\/"},"modified":"2017-10-22T00:55:56","modified_gmt":"2017-10-22T08:55:56","slug":"new-zealand-to-hold-recreational-cannabis-referendum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2017\/10\/20\/new-zealand-to-hold-recreational-cannabis-referendum\/","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand to hold recreational cannabis referendum"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>New Zealand will hold a public\u00a0referendum on whether to legalize recreational\u00a0marijuana for personal use at some point over the next three years, according to the nation\u2019s newly-elected prime minister.<\/p>\n<p>Jacinda Ardern \u2013 who\u00a0was confirmed as the nation\u2019s next prime minister on Thursday after a close September election \u2013 hasn\u2019t said whether she favors legalization. But she has said the current system wasn\u2019t working well.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve always been very open about the fact that I do not believe that people should be imprisoned for personal use of cannabis,\u201d said Ardern, whose new government takes office next week. \u201cOn the flip side,<\/p>\n<p> &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/mjbizdaily.com\/new-zealand-hold-recreational-marijuana-referendum\/\">New Zealand to hold recreational cannabis referendum<\/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\/new-zealand-hold-recreational-marijuana-referendum\/\" target=\"_blank\">New Zealand to hold recreational cannabis referendum<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Zealand will hold a public\u00a0referendum on whether to legalize recreational\u00a0marijuana for personal use at some point over the next three years, according to the nation\u2019s newly-elected prime minister. Jacinda Ardern \u2013 who\u00a0was confirmed as the nation\u2019s next prime minister on Thursday after a close September election \u2013 hasn\u2019t said<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2017\/10\/20\/new-zealand-to-hold-recreational-cannabis-referendum\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":123,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,1112,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20459"}],"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\/123"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20459"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20460,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20459\/revisions\/20460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}