{"id":24505,"date":"2020-11-06T10:14:26","date_gmt":"2020-11-06T01:14:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/nov\/06\/new-zealand-narrowly-votes-no-to-legalising-cannabis-in-referendum"},"modified":"2020-11-06T10:14:26","modified_gmt":"2020-11-06T01:14:26","slug":"new-zealand-narrowly-votes-no-to-legalising-cannabis-in-referendum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=24505","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand narrowly votes no to legalising cannabis in referendum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes campaign garnered 48.4% of votes, while the no vote won 50.7%, meaning the referendum does not pass<\/p>\n<p>New Zealanders have voted not to legalise cannabis in a referendum that painted a portrait of a country starkly divided over drug policy.<\/p>\n<p>The yes vote for legalising cannabis finished with 48.4% of the vote, trailing the no vote on 50.7% \u2013 or just 67,662 votes out of 2.9m.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/nov\/06\/new-zealand-narrowly-votes-no-to-legalising-cannabis-in-referendum\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes campaign garnered 48.4% of votes, while the no vote won 50.7%, meaning the referendum does not passNew Zealanders have voted not to legalise cannabis in a referendum that painted a portrait of a country starkly divided over drug policy.The yes vote&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1411,"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-24505","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\/24505","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\/1411"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24505"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24506,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24505\/revisions\/24506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}