{"id":1284,"date":"2018-10-18T17:00:47","date_gmt":"2018-10-18T20:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/?p=1284"},"modified":"2018-10-18T14:18:01","modified_gmt":"2018-10-18T17:18:01","slug":"pardon-in-the-works-for-marijuana-possession","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/2018\/10\/18\/pardon-in-the-works-for-marijuana-possession\/","title":{"rendered":"Pardon in the works for marijuana possession"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A pardon may be possible for those charged with simple marijuana possession charges in the future.<\/p>\n<p>On Oct. 17 the federal government announced they will move forward on a plan that will allow those convicted of having less than 30 grams of the now legal product.<\/p>\n<p>The plan will also speed up the pardon process dramatically, and waive the typical $631 charge, although those convicted must have already served their sentence.<\/p>\n<p>Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale said the government said the change is a matter of basic fairness, when older laws from a previous era are changed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A pardon may be possible for those charged with simple marijuana possession charges in the future. On Oct. 17 the federal government announced they will move forward on a plan that will allow those convicted of having less than 30 grams of the now legal product. The plan will also speed up the pardon process [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[13,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community-news","category-news-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1284"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1285,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1284\/revisions\/1285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}