{"id":31195,"date":"2012-10-22T08:37:50","date_gmt":"2012-10-22T13:37:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=31195"},"modified":"2012-10-22T08:37:50","modified_gmt":"2012-10-22T13:37:50","slug":"munchies-for-thought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=31195","title":{"rendered":"Munchies For Thought"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As several state <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/newsweek\/2012\/10\/21\/will-pot-barons-cash-in-on-legalization.html\">flirt with legalizing marijuana<\/a>, it&#8217;s time for a quick pro-and-con check:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Legalization would be good because:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The &#8220;war on drugs&#8221; has killed more people than Vietnam, and with less to show for it.<\/li>\n<li>The &#8220;war&#8221; has also destroyed most American inner cities.<\/li>\n<li>The black market has created a multinational organized crime network that Al Capone would envy, and whole soulless violence would make Sammy The Bull Gravano blanche in mute horror.<\/li>\n<li>Pot is probably less harmful, all in all, than booze.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Legalization would be bad because:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Stoners are the most annoying people in the world.<\/li>\n<li>Stoner culture is the most annoying counterculture in the world.<\/li>\n<li>Phish and Dave Matthews.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Discuss amongst yourselves.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As several state flirt with legalizing marijuana, it&#8217;s time for a quick pro-and-con check: Legalization would be good because: The &#8220;war on drugs&#8221; has killed more people than Vietnam, and with less to show for it. The &#8220;war&#8221; has also destroyed most American inner cities. The black market has created a multinational organized crime network [&hellip;]<\/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-31195","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\/31195","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=31195"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31196,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31195\/revisions\/31196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}