{"id":21606,"date":"2026-04-20T17:22:05","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T17:22:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/this-4-20-democrats-should-take-back-the-lead-on-legalization\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T17:22:05","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T17:22:05","slug":"this-4-20-democrats-should-take-back-the-lead-on-legalization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/this-4-20-democrats-should-take-back-the-lead-on-legalization\/","title":{"rendered":"This 4\/20, Democrats should take back the lead on legalization"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It would be a disastrous lost opportunity to cede this territory to Trump&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/opinion\/healthcare\/5836977-harm-reduction-politics-democrats-ascendant\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It would be a disastrous lost opportunity to cede this territory to Trump&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21607,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21606\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}