{"id":935,"date":"2020-10-07T14:43:41","date_gmt":"2020-10-07T18:43:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/cannabis\/?p=935"},"modified":"2020-10-07T14:43:41","modified_gmt":"2020-10-07T18:43:41","slug":"paul-josephson-named-to-list-of-people-shaping-new-jerseys-cannabis-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/cannabis\/2020\/10\/07\/paul-josephson-named-to-list-of-people-shaping-new-jerseys-cannabis-industry\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Josephson Named to List of People Shaping New Jersey\u2019s Cannabis Industry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/attorneys\/paulpjosephson.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Paul Josephson<\/a>, Duane Morris partner and team lead of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/practices\/cannabis_law.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cannabis Industry Group<\/a>, has been named to the \u201cCannaInfluencers\u201d list of people shaping the cannabis industry in New Jersey.<\/p>\n<p><em>NJ Cannabis Insider <\/em>writes:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\">Paul Josephson remembers his time at the University of Michigan, a decade after the city of Ann Arbor had decriminalized marijuana.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\">\u201cIt was an issue everybody was aware of,\u201d Josephson said. \u201cYou could walk past a cop with a joint hanging out of your mouth. You\u2019d get a $15 summons you would have to pay.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\">Not true for the Black students he encountered for the first time at a large university. He said he learned that their experiences with police officers was very different than his.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\">\u201cIf you were Black or poor, it could especially derail your career,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\">Combine that with Josephson\u2019s history in politics, beginning with him being elected president of UM\u2019s student government and then choosing to go to law school in the nation\u2019s capital, and you can explain why he got involved in efforts to legalize marijuana in New Jersey.<\/p>\n<p>To read Mr. Josephson\u2019s full profile, please visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nj.com\/marijuana\/2020\/10\/cannabis-influencers-a-machine-politics-attorney-who-has-changed-the-gears.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">nj.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Josephson, Duane Morris partner and team lead of the Cannabis Industry Group, has been named to the \u201cCannaInfluencers\u201d list of people shaping the cannabis industry in New Jersey. NJ Cannabis Insider writes: Paul Josephson remembers his time at the University of Michigan, a decade after the city of Ann Arbor had decriminalized marijuana. \u201cIt &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/cannabis\/2020\/10\/07\/paul-josephson-named-to-list-of-people-shaping-new-jerseys-cannabis-industry\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Paul Josephson Named to List of People Shaping New Jersey\u2019s Cannabis Industry&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[10,35,668,126],"ppma_author":[714],"class_list":["post-935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-cannabis-law","tag-new-jersey","tag-nj","tag-paul-josephson"],"authors":[{"term_id":714,"user_id":6,"is_guest":0,"slug":"duanemorris3","display_name":"Duane Morris","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/843ff6e7a8fe5fc92109b47a45f34b6cf0ea499e6e788db23456c838b0ae6747?s=96&d=blank&r=g","0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/cannabis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/cannabis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/cannabis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/cannabis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/cannabis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/cannabis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/935\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/cannabis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/cannabis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/cannabis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=935"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/cannabis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}