{"id":17903,"date":"2020-05-05T10:48:49","date_gmt":"2020-05-05T01:48:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/may\/05\/legalising-cannabis-what-will-new-zealanders-be-asked-to-vote-on-in-september"},"modified":"2020-05-05T10:48:49","modified_gmt":"2020-05-05T01:48:49","slug":"legalising-cannabis-what-will-new-zealanders-be-asked-to-vote-on-in-september","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=17903","title":{"rendered":"Legalising cannabis: what will New Zealanders be asked to vote on in September?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More than 50% of voters must say yes to the proposed changes for parliament to consider the changes<\/p>\n<p>New Zealanders will be asked at September\u2019s national election whether they want to pass a bill<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2018\/dec\/18\/new-zealand-to-hold-referendum-on-legalising-recreational-cannabis\"> that would legalise cannabis<\/a> and regulate how it is used and sold. This will include producing and selling fresh and dried cannabis, including plants and seeds \u2013 for people over 20 years old. The change would impose more stringent restrictions than the rules around sales of alcohol and tobacco.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/may\/05\/legalising-cannabis-what-will-new-zealanders-be-asked-to-vote-on-in-september\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 50% of voters must say yes to the proposed changes for parliament to consider the changesNew Zealanders will be asked at September\u2019s national election whether they want to pass a bill that would legalise cannabis and regulate how it is used a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":569,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,886,372,56,79,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-cannabis","category-drugs","category-new-zealand","category-society","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/569"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17903"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17904,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17903\/revisions\/17904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}