{"id":657522,"date":"2010-02-07T16:20:16","date_gmt":"2010-02-07T21:20:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.disinfo.com\/?p=21744"},"modified":"2010-02-07T16:20:16","modified_gmt":"2010-02-07T21:20:16","slug":"when-70-percent-support-marijuana-legalization-starbucks-got-the-message","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/657522","title":{"rendered":"When 70 Percent Support Marijuana Legalization, Starbucks Got The Message"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-left: 20px;margin-bottom: 10px\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/newsjunkiepost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Starbucks-marijuana.jpg?resize=208%2C279\" class=\"alignright\" width=\"208\" height=\"279\" \/>Steve Elliott writes on <a href=\"http:\/\/newsjunkiepost.com\/2010\/02\/06\/when-70-support-marijuana-legalization-starbucks-gets-message\">New Junkie Post<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>A remarkable scenario played out in the American media recently, and beyond the import of the story itself is the quantum shift in public perception that it illustrates.<\/p>\n<p>A pro-cannabis group based in Colorado called for a nationwide boycott of coffee giant Starbucks after activists spotted a Starbucks logo on the website of a virulently extremist anti-drug organization. After intense negative publicity ensued, Starbucks actually felt moved to issue a denial.<\/p>\n<p>Once Mason Tvert of Safer Alternative For Enjoyable Recation (SAFER) called for the boycott, it took only a couple days until <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tokeofthetown.com\/2010\/01\/starbucks_denies_funding_anti-marijuana_group.php\">Starbucks denied funding<\/a> the Colorado Drug Investigators Association (CDIA). Starbucks further said they officially took no position on the marijuana issue, one way or the other.<\/p>\n<p>That doesn\u2019t sound so remarkable until you realize that the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Elliott writes on New Junkie Post: A remarkable scenario played out in the American media recently, and beyond the import of the story itself is the quantum shift in public perception that it illustrates. A pro-cannabis group based in Colorado called for a nationwide boycott of coffee giant Starbucks after activists spotted a Starbucks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1608,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-657522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2L3c","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1608"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=657522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657522\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=657522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=657522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=657522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}