{"id":25552,"date":"2016-09-21T00:15:00","date_gmt":"2016-09-21T00:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/merryjane.com\/virginia-s-governor-doesn-t-know-anything-about-marijuana\/"},"modified":"2016-09-21T00:15:00","modified_gmt":"2016-09-21T00:15:00","slug":"virginia-s-governor-doesn-t-know-anything-about-marijuana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/merryjane.com\/news\/virginia-s-governor-doesn-t-know-anything-about-marijuana\/","title":{"rendered":"Virginia&#8217;s Governor Doesn&#8217;t Know Anything About Marijuana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A photo of Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe hanging out with <a href=\"https:\/\/merryjane.com\/news\/willie-nelson-and-his-weed-want-to-hire-you\">legendary singer Willie Nelson<\/a>&#xA0;with what seems to be a can of <a href=\"https:\/\/merryjane.com\/music\/smoke-willie-nelson-s-marijuana\">Willie&#x2019;s Reserve, Nelson&apos;s brand of marijuana products<\/a>, was posted on social media over the weekend causing McAuliffe&apos;s camp to scramble out an explanation.&#xA0;<\/p>\n<p>&#xA0;Willie Nelson&#x2019;s wife, Annie Nelson, posted the photo on Twitter with the message &#x201C;UH-OH Trouble!&#x201D;&#xA0;&#xA0;The governor &quot;wouldn&apos;t know marijuana or related paraphernalia if it walked up and shook his hand,&quot; his spokesperson Brian Coy said&#xA0;in an interview.<br \/>\n&#xA0;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PaulBegala\" rel=\"nofollow\">@PaulBegala<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GovernorVA\" rel=\"nofollow\">@GovernorVA<\/a> UH-OH Trouble! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/PRdTFiiM1w\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/PRdTFiiM1w<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#x2014; &#x1F5E3;&#x1F4A8;6630507 (@BioAnnie1) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BioAnnie1\/status\/777293881935355904\" rel=\"nofollow\">September 17, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\nCoy told the&#xA0;<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.richmond.com\/news\/virginia\/article_aceb35d0-ab62-5495-bf47-328b91ce67d7.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">Richmond Times-Dispatch<\/a><\/em>&#xA0;that the governor met with Nelson to&#xA0;thank performers at Farm Aid 2016, a benefit concert headlined by Nelson that raises money for family farmers.&#xA0;Coy mentioned that McAuliffe visited Nelson for 10 minutes or less and &#x201C;had no idea&#x201D; what else was on the bus.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;He was not and still is not aware of whatever was on the table or anywhere around,&quot; Coy said in an interview.&#xA0;<\/p>\n<p>Willie&#x2019;s Reserve is currently sold in Washington and Colorado where marijuana is legal recreationally but in Virginia marijuana is still illegal. In 2015 alone there were 20,881 marijuana-related arrests in Virginia, according to the Virginia State Police annual crime report, which&#xA0;accounted for nearly 60% of the drug arrests in the state. McAuliffe has opposed marijuana legalization in the past but most recently signed a bill to allow limited CBD and THC-A oil for patients who suffer epilepsy in Virginia.&#xA0;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Coy said McAuliffe has &#x201C;never touched a drug in his life.&#x201D;&#xA0;&quot;He&apos;s cool, but he&apos;s not that cool,&quot; Coy said of McAuliffe.&#xA0;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A photo of Gov. 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