{"id":10264,"date":"2010-04-22T08:19:58","date_gmt":"2010-04-22T13:19:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=10264"},"modified":"2010-04-22T08:19:58","modified_gmt":"2010-04-22T13:19:58","slug":"420-this-cheeba-monkey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=10264","title":{"rendered":"420 This, Cheeba Monkey"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve long been ambivalent about the “war on drugs”, to the point where I’ve come to favor ending it.\u00a0 Combining the American appetite for drugs\u00a0 with prohibition means that the market favors the more desperate, ruthless criminals – which is why Mexico is more dangerous than Iraq right now; more Americans have died of non-overdose-related causes – gang crimes and robbery-murders, mostly – directly attributable to the “War” than died in Vietnam.<\/p>\n

So yeah, I favor decriminalizing at least pot.<\/p>\n

But on the other hand, as the US passes yet another April 20 “National weed day”<\/a>…:<\/p>\n

Those who weren’t within whiffing distance of a college campus or a reggae concert may not have realised that Tuesday was ‘4\/20’, the celebration-cum-mass civil disobedience derived from ‘420’ – insider shorthand for cannabis consumption.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

…I’m reminded of the the simple fact that pot smokers are <\/em>the most irritating people in the entire world.<\/p>\n

Worse than Rosie O’Donnell talking in a Fran Drescher voice.<\/p>\n

Worse than Crispin Glover and Al Gore doing a rap duet.<\/p>\n

Worse than whatever you’re imagining.<\/p>\n

So I think we should legalize pot.\u00a0 I also think we should legalize hitting cheeba monkeys with bats.<\/p>\n

Fair enough?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve long been ambivalent about the “war on drugs”, to the point where I’ve come to favor ending it.\u00a0 Combining the American appetite for drugs\u00a0 with prohibition means that the market favors the more desperate, ruthless criminals – which is why Mexico is more dangerous than Iraq right now; more Americans have died of non-overdose-related […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime-and-punishment","category-culture-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10264"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10265,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10264\/revisions\/10265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}