{"id":13330,"date":"2012-12-03T00:20:40","date_gmt":"2012-12-03T04:20:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dubvlive.com\/blog\/?p=13330"},"modified":"2012-12-12T16:27:15","modified_gmt":"2012-12-12T20:27:15","slug":"w-va-advocates-announce-public-forum-in-charleston-tuesday-december-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/dubvlive.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/03\/w-va-advocates-announce-public-forum-in-charleston-tuesday-december-11\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday, December 11, at 5:00 p.m. in Charleston. Reform advocates have reserved the House chamber (1900 Kanawha Boulevard East) for an hour-long public forum entitled \u201cShould West Virginia reform its marijuana laws?\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mpp.org\">Marijuana Policy Project &lt;state@mpp.org&gt;<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mpp.org\"> Subject: \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0W.Va.: Advocates announce public forum in Charleston Tuesday, December 11<\/a><\/p>\n<p>December 4, 2012<\/p>\n<p>Advocates announce public forum in Charleston Tuesday, December 11<\/p>\n<p>Dear Supporter:<\/p>\n<p>We know you are ready for a serious conversation about marijuana policy reform in West Virginia, and with the help of a few key advocates in West Virginia, we are planning to launch that conversation in a big way next Tuesday, December 11, at 5:00 p.m. in Charleston. Reform advocates have reserved the House chamber (1900 Kanawha Boulevard East) for an hour-long public forum entitled \u201cShould West Virginia reform its marijuana laws?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>We intend to change the course of this debate and show legislators we are serious about taking a hard look at West Virginia\u2019s marijuana policies. Patients, advocates, and other interested parties are encouraged to attend this public forum. The following speakers have been confirmed:<\/p>\n<p>* James Nolan, a former police lieutenant and FBI unit chief, currently Associate Professor of Sociology at West Virginia University and a speaker for Law Enforcement Against Prohibition.<\/p>\n<p>* Dr. Paul Clancy, an ER physician and advocate for allowing marijuana to be used as medicine.<\/p>\n<p>* Matt Simon, a West Virginia native and WVU graduate currently working as a legislative analyst for the Marijuana Policy Project.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Delegate Mike Manypenny and our allies at WVNORML for helping to make this event a reality!<\/p>\n<p>Sincerely,<br \/>\nMatt Simon<br \/>\nLegislative Analyst<br \/>\nMarijuana Policy Project<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marijuana Policy Project &lt;state@mpp.org&gt; Subject: \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0W.Va.: Advocates announce public forum in Charleston Tuesday, December 11 December 4, 2012 Advocates announce public forum in Charleston Tuesday, December 11 Dear Supporter: We know you are ready for a serious conversation about marijuana policy reform in West Virginia, and with the help of a few key advocates in West Virginia, we are planning to launch that conversation in a big way next Tuesday, December 11, at 5:00 p.m. in Charleston. Reform advocates have reserved the House chamber (1900 Kanawha Boulevard East) for an hour-long public forum entitled \u201cShould West Virginia reform its marijuana laws?\u201d We intend to change the course of this debate and show legislators we are serious about taking a hard look at West Virginia\u2019s marijuana policies. Patients, advocates, and other interested parties are encouraged to attend this public forum. The following speakers have been confirmed: * James Nolan, a former police lieutenant and FBI unit chief, currently Associate Professor of Sociology at West Virginia University and a speaker for Law Enforcement Against Prohibition. * Dr. Paul Clancy, an ER physician and advocate for allowing marijuana to be used as medicine. * Matt Simon, a West Virginia native and WVU [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10,14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/dubvlive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13330"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/dubvlive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/dubvlive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dubvlive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dubvlive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13330"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/dubvlive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13363,"href":"http:\/\/dubvlive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13330\/revisions\/13363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/dubvlive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dubvlive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dubvlive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}