{"id":14333,"date":"2021-10-22T13:36:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-22T17:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=14333"},"modified":"2021-10-22T13:36:00","modified_gmt":"2021-10-22T17:36:00","slug":"luxembourg-to-become-first-country-in-europe-to-legalise-cannabis-cnn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=14333","title":{"rendered":"Luxembourg to become first country in Europe to legalise cannabis &#8211; CNN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Luxembourg is set to become the first European nation to legalize the growing and use of cannabis, the government announced in a statement on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2021\/10\/22\/europe\/luxembourg-cannabis-legalization-intl\/index.html\">Luxembourg to become first country in Europe to legalise cannabis &#8211; CNN<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Oddly, the article mentions there will still be fines for possession:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Decriminalization will also dramatically lower the current fines for possession of the drug to between $29 and $581 for possession of three grams or less, down from the current fines of $291 to $2,910.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So not &#8220;legal&#8221;, more &#8220;decriminalization&#8221;.\u00a0 Which is a step in the right direction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Luxembourg is set to become the first European nation to legalize the&#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":[39,569,921],"class_list":["post-14333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-cannabis","tag-drug-law","tag-luxembourg","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14333","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=14333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14333\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}