{"id":1161,"date":"2009-03-07T21:13:29","date_gmt":"2009-03-08T03:13:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=1161"},"modified":"2009-03-08T19:10:52","modified_gmt":"2009-03-09T01:10:52","slug":"the-pot-wars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=1161","title":{"rendered":"The Pot Wars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s strange.  The last time economic conditions were this bad, we repealed prohibition.  And this time around, it seems the subject of ending prohibition is up for debate again.  California is talking seriously about legalizing and taxing pot.  Minnesota, New Jersey and Illinois are talking about legalizing <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.mpp.org\/?p=318\" title=\"medical marijuana\">medical marijuana<\/a>. Even that notorious left-wing rag, the Economist, is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/printedition\/displayStory.cfm?Story_ID=13237193\" title=\"on board\">on board<\/a>.  Even more telling, those <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cato-at-liberty.org\/2009\/03\/06\/john-walters-on-drugs\/\">defending<\/a> prohibition are growing increasingly shrill and incoherent.<\/p>\n<p>Just in the last few months, the tide seems to have turned.  All of the sudden, this issue &#8212; which has been brewing for decades &#8212; is back with a vengeance.<\/p>\n<p>It gives me a reason to keep fighting on things like healthcare and taxes, I guess.<\/p>\n<p><b>Update<\/b>: The Drug War must be over.  Pat Buchanan is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.humanevents.com\/article.php?id=30966\">waving the white flag<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s strange. The last time economic conditions were this bad, we repealed prohibition. And this time around, it seems the subject of ending prohibition is up for debate again. California is talking seriously about legalizing and taxing pot. Minnesota, New Jersey and Illinois are talking about legalizing medical marijuana. Even that notorious left-wing rag, the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=1161\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Pot Wars<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BzKF-iJ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1161\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}