{"id":2443248,"date":"2019-04-21T21:44:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-22T03:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/marijuana-has-lost-its-luster\/"},"modified":"2019-04-22T08:42:10","modified_gmt":"2019-04-22T14:42:10","slug":"marijuana-has-lost-its-luster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/marijuana-has-lost-its-luster\/","title":{"rendered":"Marijuana has lost its luster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">According to the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, \u201cpeople who use marijuana or are involved with it in any way fail to have \u2018good moral character,\u2019 a prerequisite for people who have legal permanent residence to gain American citizenship.\u201d (April, 20, Aspen Daily News, ironically).<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Does this mean all those ass-hat politicians use pot or work in the marijuana industry?<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Pot was more fun when it was illegal! Now it\u2019s on par with doctors, lawyers and other white-collar professionals buying Harley Davidsons in the \u201890s or getting tattoos in the early 2000s \u2014 uber trendy! Those who used to look down on us illegal-weed smokers are now looking for gummies or other edibles to go see a show at Belly Up or go to the Caribou Club.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Alcohol and tobacco were the gateway drugs. But now it is harder to get cigarettes in Aspen and easier to get weed and cocaine too \u2026 just go to a high school kids parents\u2019 party!<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Even though I no longer smoke weed, I would argue that engaging in marijuana or working in the industry makes one lack \u201cgood moral character\u201d!<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND Letter Name\">John Norman<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND Letter Title\">Carbondale<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/opinion\/letters-to-the-editor\/marijuana-has-lost-its-luster\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, \u201cpeople who use marijuana or are involved with it in any way fail to have \u2018good moral character,\u2019 a prerequisite for people who have legal permanent residence to gain American citizenship.\u201d (April, 20, Aspen Daily News, ironically). Does this mean all those ass-hat politicians use pot or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2443248","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-17 02:43:53","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2443248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2443248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2443248\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2443248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2443248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2443248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}