{"id":56525,"date":"2015-07-21T11:55:09","date_gmt":"2015-07-21T03:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=56525"},"modified":"2015-07-21T11:57:04","modified_gmt":"2015-07-21T03:57:04","slug":"protesters-smoke-up-in-winnipeg-in-favour-of-medical-marijuana-store","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/07\/21\/protesters-smoke-up-in-winnipeg-in-favour-of-medical-marijuana-store\/","title":{"rendered":"Protesters smoke up in Winnipeg in favour of medical marijuana store"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_56528\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-56528\" style=\"width: 572px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Medical-Marijuana.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-56528\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Medical-Marijuana.png\" alt=\"Medical marijuana (Photo from Flickr\/Dank Depot)\" width=\"572\" height=\"378\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Medical-Marijuana.png 572w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Medical-Marijuana-300x198.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 572px) 100vw, 572px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-56528\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Medical marijuana (Photo from Flickr\/<a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/dankdepot\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dank Depot<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>WINNIPEG \u2013 Protesters held signs reading \u201cI am not a criminal\u201d outside Winnipeg police headquarters for a demonstration in support of medical marijuana.<\/p>\n<p>A store selling medical pot on Main Street was ordered closed by police last week, just two weeks after it opened.<\/p>\n<p>Owner Glenn Price called Monday\u2019s demonstration a \u201cpeaceful smoke-in.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He says he only provides the product to people with appropriate medical documentation and says he\u2019s helped hundreds of people since opening on July 1.<\/p>\n<p>However, police say Price isn\u2019t a licensed producer so it&#8217;s illegal for him to sell medical marijuana.<\/p>\n<p>Price insists what he\u2019s doing is legitimate, saying he provides a safe place for people to smoke medicine \u201cinstead of on the street.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Police called the demonstration peaceful and did not take any action against the people who attended.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WINNIPEG \u2013 Protesters held signs reading \u201cI am not a criminal\u201d outside Winnipeg police headquarters for a demonstration in support &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":56528,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[35],"class_list":["post-56525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-original","mauthors-the-canadian-press1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56525\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}