{"id":83564,"date":"2022-10-07T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-07T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=83564"},"modified":"2022-10-07T10:14:50","modified_gmt":"2022-10-07T15:14:50","slug":"potemkin-reform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=83564","title":{"rendered":"Potemkin Reform"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Yesterday, just in time for midterms, President Brandon &#8220;pardoned&#8221; all people in federal custody for marijuana possession charges, and urged states to do the same. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mentioned in the closing seconds of NPR&#8217;s report on the subject: the number of people in Federal custody solely for marijuana possession is&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(checks his notes)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;zero.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Literally nobody will be affected by this bit of campaign fluffery. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But if campaigns are to be fluffed, Peggy Flanagan will be there:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/peggyflanagan\/status\/1578192195919941632\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It must be a month before a hotly-contested election: the Flanagan\/Klink administration is making noises about legalizing weed. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, just in time for midterms, President Brandon &#8220;pardoned&#8221; all people in federal custody for marijuana possession charges, and urged states to do the same. Mentioned in the closing seconds of NPR&#8217;s report on the subject: the number of people in Federal custody solely for marijuana possession is&#8230; (checks his notes) &#8230;zero. Literally nobody will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[427,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-22","category-culture-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=83564"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83565,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83564\/revisions\/83565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=83564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=83564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=83564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}