{"id":11777,"date":"2021-07-11T00:07:05","date_gmt":"2021-07-11T04:07:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=11777"},"modified":"2021-07-11T00:07:05","modified_gmt":"2021-07-11T04:07:05","slug":"virginias-marijuana-martyr-fought-a-40-year-sentence-for-selling-pot-now-he-can-legally-smoke-a-joint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=11777","title":{"rendered":"Virginia\u2019s \u2018Marijuana Martyr\u2019 fought a 40-year sentence for selling pot. Now he can legally smoke a joint."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/us\/virginia-s-marijuana-martyr-fought-a-40-year-sentence-for-selling-pot-now-he-can-legally-smoke-a-joint\/ar-AALZHcA\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AALZHcw.img?h=1627&amp;w=1119&amp;m=6&amp;q=60&amp;o=f&amp;l=f\" alt=\"\" width=\"298\" height=\"433\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In 1974, Roger T. Davis was sentenced to 40 years in prison for marijuana possession and intent to sell \u2013 a case that went all the way to the Supreme Court and transformed Davis into Virginia\u2019s Marijuana Martyr.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/history\/2021\/07\/10\/marijuana-martyr-roger-davis-virginia\/\">Virginia\u2019s \u2018Marijuana Martyr\u2019 fought a 40-year sentence for selling pot. Now he can legally smoke a joint.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1974, Roger T. Davis was sentenced to 40 years in prison&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[39,4,675,694],"class_list":["post-11777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-cannabis","tag-drugwar","tag-race","tag-virginia","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11777\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}