{"id":2687,"date":"2014-04-01T11:30:39","date_gmt":"2014-04-01T15:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=2687"},"modified":"2014-04-01T13:01:41","modified_gmt":"2014-04-01T17:01:41","slug":"will-vallario-kill-marijuana-decriminalization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=2687","title":{"rendered":"Will Vallario Kill Marijuana Decriminalization?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Vallario.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2690\" alt=\"Vallario\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Vallario.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"442\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Vallario.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Vallario-300x221.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The General Assembly session is rapidly coming to a close and the House Judiciary Committee may kill efforts to decriminalize the possession of small amounts of marijuana. Chairman Joe Vallario is <a href=\"http:\/\/thedailyrecord.com\/2014\/03\/31\/aclu-naacp-call-on-vallario-to-allow-marijuana-vote\/\">leading the effort to kill the bill<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Senate passed the bill by a 36-8 vote earlier this year. Vallario opposed the bill last year and continues to be the major hurdle to a full vote in the House of Delegates. The ACLU, in its statement, said Vallario &#8220;has been lobbying his committee members to reject the measure in 2014.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Vice Chair Kathleen Dumais is also <a href=\"http:\/\/thedailyrecord.com\/2014\/03\/31\/aclu-naacp-call-on-vallario-to-allow-marijuana-vote\/\">deeply ambivalent about the bill<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In an interview last week, Dumais expressed doubt for the bill\u2019s prospects, saying she \u201cis not so sure it\u2019s the right \u00a0message to send to young people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m just not ready to make that leap,\u201d Dumais said. \u201cMy committee has never been real comfortable with it and to be honest I\u2019m not that comfortable with it. Maybe there\u2019s something we can do with it. We haven\u2019t had a full discussion because it hasn\u2019t come up for a vote yet.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think it\u2019s going to move this year but I could be wrong,\u201d Dumais said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The ACLU released results from a poll showing strong support for the Senate bill in their two districts as well as Del. Frank Conaway as part of an effort to build pressure for the bill&#8217;s passage. You can see the full results in .pdf form here:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/215550858-MD-ACLU-Decrim-Districts-Poll.pdf\">MD-ACLU Marijuana Decriminalization Poll<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The General Assembly session is rapidly coming to a close and the House Judiciary Committee may kill efforts to decriminalize the possession of small amounts of marijuana. Chairman Joe Vallario is leading the effort to kill the bill: The Senate passed the bill by a 36-8 vote earlier this year. Vallario opposed the bill last &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=2687\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Will Vallario Kill Marijuana Decriminalization?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[712,710,1653,1487,709],"class_list":["post-2687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marijuana","tag-frank-conaway","tag-house-judiciary-committee","tag-joe-vallario","tag-kathleen-dumais","tag-marijuana-decriminalization"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4mKJE-Hl","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2687"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2696,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2687\/revisions\/2696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}