{"id":959,"date":"2015-12-08T19:15:11","date_gmt":"2015-12-08T19:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cannachronicle.com\/?p=959"},"modified":"2015-12-08T19:15:31","modified_gmt":"2015-12-08T19:15:31","slug":"florida-attorney-general-keeping-silent-about-legalizing-medical-marijuana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannachronicle.com\/2015\/12\/08\/florida-attorney-general-keeping-silent-about-legalizing-medical-marijuana\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida Attorney General Keeping Silent About Legalizing Medical Marijuana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cannachronicle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/1200x628-med-mj.001.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1007\" src=\"http:\/\/cannachronicle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/1200x628-med-mj.001-1024x536.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"536\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cannachronicle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/1200x628-med-mj.001-1024x536.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/cannachronicle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/1200x628-med-mj.001-300x157.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/cannachronicle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/1200x628-med-mj.001.jpeg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi, who adamantly opposed the medical marijuana measure that appeared on the 2014 ballot, is keeping mum this time around.<\/p>\n<p>Bondi said she still opposes the effort to legalize medical marijuana, but she is keeping quiet about whether or not the Florida Supreme Court should block the latest version of the ballot initiative.<\/p>\n<p>The Supreme Court is currently reviewing the proposed amendment before next year&#8217;s elections.<\/p>\n<p>Previously, Bondi\u2019s reasoning was that a similar medical marijuana amendment would allow patients to go to their physician and obtain pot for just about any reason.<\/p>\n<p>Two years ago, Bondi unsuccessfully attempted to persuade the\u00a0 Supreme Court to remove the amendment from the ballot. That ballot measure just missed reaching\u00a0 the 60 percent mark it needed to pass in order to become legal.<\/p>\n<p>To learn more, check out this\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tampabay.com\/news\/politics\/stateroundup\/attorney-general-pam-bondi-wont-fight-medical-marijuana-amendment\/2253258\">story<\/a> at Tampabay.com.<\/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>Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi, who adamantly opposed the medical marijuana measure that appeared on the 2014 ballot, is keeping mum this time around. Bondi said she still opposes the effort to legalize medical marijuana, but she is keeping quiet about whether or not the Florida Supreme Court should block the latest version of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1007,"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":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cannachronicle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/1200x628-med-mj.001.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannachronicle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/959"}],"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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannachronicle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cannachronicle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/959\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannachronicle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannachronicle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannachronicle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannachronicle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}