{"id":10255,"date":"2014-05-07T18:04:24","date_gmt":"2014-05-08T01:04:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/marijuana-has-its-usefulness\/"},"modified":"2016-10-23T00:00:29","modified_gmt":"2016-10-23T07:00:29","slug":"marijuana-has-its-usefulness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/letters\/marijuana-has-its-usefulness\/","title":{"rendered":"Marijuana has its usefulness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>I am a 66-year-old man who has worked hard all my life.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Three years ago, I lost my left leg four inches above the knee. A short time later, I started having what is called phantom pains. Pain from a part of you that is no longer there, but your mind feels as well as you. Horrible pain like you have never felt.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>I told my doctor, and he gave me a medical marijuana prescription. I tried it to see if it could help. It has taken away the worst of the pain.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>But you, the mayor and Kent City Council, are saying no the people that elected you. How and what gives you so much self-power? It&#8217;s not the people. How did you decide you are the rulers over the people? You are elected and also can be removed.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>You need to reconsider your thoughts.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p><strong>\u2013 Roddy Lee Orr<\/strong><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am a 66-year-old man who has worked hard all my life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-10255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10255"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10255\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10255"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=10255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}