{"id":17815,"date":"2014-04-23T17:33:18","date_gmt":"2014-04-24T00:33:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/citys-stance-on-marijuana-abuse-of-power\/"},"modified":"2016-10-22T05:00:34","modified_gmt":"2016-10-22T12:00:34","slug":"citys-stance-on-marijuana-abuse-of-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/letters\/citys-stance-on-marijuana-abuse-of-power\/","title":{"rendered":"City&#8217;s stance on marijuana: abuse of power?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>As a high school teacher of American Government, I taught two generations of Kent students that elected leaders serve to represent the will of the governed.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>How would I now explain to them that what the mayor and Kent City Council are doing follows this basic American democratic tenant?<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>The majority of Kent residents voted to legalize medical marijuana and recreational marijuana.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>The mayor and council are telling the citizens who elected them and whom they represent, &#8220;We don&#8217;t care what you voted into law, we are not going to let you have it in our city! No legal medical or legal recreational marijuana stores in our city!&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Many people I talk to who voted for both initiatives believe that what the mayor and council are doing is an abuse of their power.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>I taught my students that in a representative democratic government, abuse of power at any level of government is an impeachable offense.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Any thoughts mayor or council?<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p><strong>\u2013 Gregory A Worthing<\/strong><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a high school teacher of American Government, I taught two generations of Kent students that elected leaders serve to represent the will of the governed.<\/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-17815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17815"}],"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=17815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17815\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17815"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=17815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}