{"id":1553,"date":"2016-07-18T22:31:58","date_gmt":"2016-07-18T22:31:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cannachronicle.com\/?p=1553"},"modified":"2016-07-18T22:31:58","modified_gmt":"2016-07-18T22:31:58","slug":"temple-terrace-moves-to-silence-pro-cannabis-groups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannachronicle.com\/2016\/07\/18\/temple-terrace-moves-to-silence-pro-cannabis-groups\/","title":{"rendered":"Temple Terrace Moves to Silence Pro Cannabis Groups"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>City Council Attempting to Take Away NORML\u2019s First Amendment Rights<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">On July 4<\/span><span class=\"s2\"><sup>th<\/sup><\/span><span class=\"s1\">, the Central Florida Chapter for the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws \u201csparked\u201d a bit of controversy by marching a 10-foot giant joint down the parade route of the Temple Terrace 4<\/span><span class=\"s2\"><sup>th<\/sup><\/span><span class=\"s1\"> of July Parade.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>A stunt that they pulled last year, in 2015, in the same parade.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>In 2015, members from Florida\u2019s No 2 Pot campaign were present on the Temple Terrace Republican\u2019s float and of course made a big stink over NORML\u2019s presence in the parade.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>The Chamber of Commerce, in the spirit of the 4<\/span><span class=\"s2\"><sup>th<\/sup><\/span><span class=\"s1\"> of July, cited NORML had the right to be in the parade to express their freedom of speech.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">This year the No 2 Pot is stooping to new lows to silence NORML and their message, by influencing the Temple Terrace City Council and the mayor to get involved.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">&#8220;I don&#8217;t know about you guys, but I got about 10 emails today, saying, &#8216;What are you guys doing in Temple Terrace?&#8217; &#8221; Mayor Frank Chillura said during Tuesday&#8217;s City Council meeting.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">Should the Chamber decided to not let NORML back in next year\u2019s parade that would be fine.<\/span>\u00a0 <span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">That is a private organization and they have the right to run their organization the way they please.<\/span>\u00a0 <span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">However, what right does the City Council or Mayor have to get involved?<\/span>\u00a0 <span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">What these publicly elected officials would be doing by getting involved is attempting to silence a Non-Profit political advocacy organization\u2019s voice.<\/span>\u00a0 <span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">They would be using tax payer\u2019s money to take away NORML\u2019s freedom of speech.<\/span>\u00a0 <span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">Is this what we elect them for?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Central Florida NORML is holding an event (click the below picture for more Information)<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/1081068808608762\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1554\" src=\"http:\/\/cannachronicle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Screen-Shot-2016-07-13-at-8.59.55-PM-1024x832.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2016-07-13 at 8.59.55 PM\" width=\"1024\" height=\"832\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cannachronicle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Screen-Shot-2016-07-13-at-8.59.55-PM-1024x832.png 1024w, https:\/\/cannachronicle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Screen-Shot-2016-07-13-at-8.59.55-PM-300x244.png 300w, https:\/\/cannachronicle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Screen-Shot-2016-07-13-at-8.59.55-PM-768x624.png 768w, https:\/\/cannachronicle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Screen-Shot-2016-07-13-at-8.59.55-PM.png 1614w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"mantis__recommended__wordpress\"><\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\" data-cfasync=\"false\">\n    MANTIS_RECOMMEND = {\n        property: '556c86bbbf60bd001d672ecb',\n        render: 'mantis__recommended__wordpress'\n    };\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\" data-cfasync=\"false\">\n\tvar z = document.createElement(\"script\");\n\tz.type = \"text\/javascript\";\n\tz.async = true;\n\tz.src = \"\/\/assets.mantisadnetwork.com\/recommend.min.js\";\n\tvar s = document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0];\n\ts.parentNode.insertBefore(z, s);\n<\/script><\/p>\n<link href=\"\/\/assets.mantisadnetwork.com\/recommend.3columns.css\" rel=\"stylesheet\" type=\"text\/css\" \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; City Council Attempting to Take Away NORML\u2019s First Amendment Rights &nbsp; On July 4th, the Central Florida Chapter for the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws \u201csparked\u201d a bit of controversy by marching a 10-foot giant joint down the parade route of the Temple Terrace 4th of July Parade.\u00a0 A stunt that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1557,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[186,185],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cannachronicle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/1200x628-med-mj.001-2.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannachronicle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1553"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannachronicle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannachronicle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannachronicle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannachronicle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cannachronicle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1553\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannachronicle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannachronicle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannachronicle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannachronicle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}