{"id":194288,"date":"2017-05-13T09:31:43","date_gmt":"2017-05-13T13:31:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/target\/sir-richard-branson-adamant-caribbean-countries-should-decriminalize-marijuana"},"modified":"2017-05-13T09:32:07","modified_gmt":"2017-05-13T13:32:07","slug":"sir-richard-branson-adamant-caribbean-countries-should-decriminalize-marijuana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2017\/05\/sir-richard-branson-adamant-caribbean-countries-should-decriminalize-marijuana","title":{"rendered":"Sir Richard Branson Adamant Caribbean Countries Should Decriminalize Marijuana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/marijuana.jpeg\" alt=\"Sir Richard Branson Adamant Caribbean Countries Should Decriminalize Marijuana\" width=\"740\" height=\"493\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe all know this. Cannabis is everywhere in the Caribbean, freely available to anyone who wants it and looks for it, and yet, the entire market is controlled by people that have no interest in ensuring that potent, harmful types of cannabis stay out of the hands of minors.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf the safety of your child matters to you, this cannot be an acceptable situation,\u201d the business mogul stressed.<\/p>\n<p>While advocating strongly for policy reform, Sir Richard however made it clear that he was not encouraging use of drugs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut I believe strongly that as with alcohol in the United States, only decriminalization helps and will free the law enforcement resources needed to focus on organized crime,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p id=\"mct-ai-attriblink\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.caribbean360.com\/news\/sir-richard-branson-adamant-caribbean-countries-decriminalize-marijuana\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here to read the complete article at www.caribbean360.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWe all know this. Cannabis is everywhere in the Caribbean, freely available to anyone who wants it and looks for it, and yet, the entire&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":194289,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[12,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-lifestyle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194288\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}