{"id":15706,"date":"2019-07-10T13:15:47","date_gmt":"2019-07-10T17:15:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lcpllutzlivetotell.org\/?p=15706"},"modified":"2019-08-08T12:25:46","modified_gmt":"2019-08-08T16:25:46","slug":"hawaii-becomes-26th-state-to-decriminalize-marijuana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lutzlivetotell.org\/?p=15706","title":{"rendered":"Hawaii becomes 26th state to decriminalize marijuana"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"postid-14053654\">Hawaii becomes 26th state to decriminalize marijuana<\/h3>\n<div id=\"author-byline\">\n<p class=\"byline\">By\u00a0<a class=\"tamar-lapin\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/author\/tamar-lapin\/\">Tamar Lapin<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"byline-date\">July 10, 2019\u00a0<span class=\"separator\">|<\/span>\u00a05:50pm<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-15707\" src=\"https:\/\/lcpllutzlivetotell.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/IMG_8873-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lutzlivetotell.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/IMG_8873.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.lutzlivetotell.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/IMG_8873-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.lutzlivetotell.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/IMG_8873-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.lutzlivetotell.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/IMG_8873-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.lutzlivetotell.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/IMG_8873-272x182.jpg 272w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Hawaii has become the 26th state in the nation to decriminalize the possession of small amounts of marijuana.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Under the new legislation, which effectively became law on Tuesday, tokers with even a tiny amount of weed on them no longer face the possibility of 30 days in jail and a $1,000 fine.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Instead,\u00a0anyone with up to three grams of the drug could be slapped with a $130 fine, but no jail time.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Hawaii Governor David Ige declined to sign the legislation but also didn\u2019t veto it by Tuesday\u2019s deadline. The bill goes into effect January, 11, 2020.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Still, Ige cautioned this doesn\u2019t mean his state is ready to say \u201caloha\u201d to legal pot just yet.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u201cWe continue to learn from other states about the problems they see with recreational marijuana, and most of the governors that I talk to that have recreational laws have acknowledged significant problems with those measures,\u201d Ige said last month,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/hawaii-26th-state-decriminalize-marijuana\/story?id=64239358\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">according to ABC News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Hawaii was the first state to legalize medical marijuana in 2020.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2019\/06\/21\/legal-weed-bid-fails-in-albany-but-decriminalization-bill-pushes-through\/\">New York is one<\/a>\u00a0of the 25 other states that have some sort of decriminalization legislation in place.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Eleven states and Washington D.C. have legalized recreational use of marijuana.<\/p>\n<p>Retrieved from: https:\/\/nypost.com\/2019\/07\/10\/hawaii-becomes-26th-state-to-decriminalize-marijuana\/?fbclid=IwAR19iT4eM4fPcN5eT0VzzQOscIJg5j_2yeaixHdVf3I8p-AZca03ddTFQ-8<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hawaii becomes 26th state to decriminalize marijuana By\u00a0Tamar Lapin July 10, 2019\u00a0|\u00a05:50pm Hawaii has become the 26th state in the nation to decriminalize the possession of small amounts of marijuana. Under the new legislation, which effectively became law on Tuesday, tokers with even a tiny amount of weed on them &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15707,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cannabis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lutzlivetotell.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lutzlivetotell.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lutzlivetotell.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lutzlivetotell.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lutzlivetotell.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lutzlivetotell.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15706\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lutzlivetotell.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lutzlivetotell.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lutzlivetotell.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lutzlivetotell.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}