{"id":3459,"date":"2010-09-05T09:41:30","date_gmt":"2010-09-05T17:41:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/simonburrow.com\/\/?p=3459"},"modified":"2010-09-05T15:49:39","modified_gmt":"2010-09-05T23:49:39","slug":"the-weed-of-madness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?p=3459","title":{"rendered":"The Weed of Madness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In California we get to vote on Marijuana Decriminalization in November.\u00a0 Decriminalizing drugs is a good libertarian cause and I&#8217;ve always supported it.\u00a0 If you agree that we should try a new approach to controlling drugs go to <a href=\"http:\/\/yeson19.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Yes on Prop 19<\/strong><\/a> and register.<\/p>\n<p>In the 1980&#8217;s when I was first collecting books I put together a small collection of books about marijuana.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve kept about 20 of the books and now finally they are germane:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a class=\"tt-flickr tt-flickr-Medium\" title=\"IMG_1779\" href=\"http:\/\/simonburrow.com\/\/photos\/photo\/4957966290\/img_1779.html\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4091\/4957966290_e8c74e3b48.jpg?resize=375%2C500\" alt=\"IMG_1779\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>This book from the 1930&#8217;s had it wrong <\/em><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m trying to figure out what the decriminalization opponents will say:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;I like drug wars.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Prohibition worked so well.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;I don&#8217;t want to change my mind.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;It is a federal crime so any state law will be moot.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In future posts I will:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>address these objections and any others that come to light.<\/li>\n<li>Post where the candidates for office stand on the issue.<\/li>\n<li>Give you some great quotes from my marijuana book collection.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Peace.\u00a0 Aah the memories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In California we get to vote on Marijuana Decriminalization in November.\u00a0 Decriminalizing drugs is a good libertarian cause and I&#8217;ve always supported it.\u00a0 If you agree that we should try a new approach to controlling drugs go to Yes on Prop 19 and register. In the 1980&#8217;s when I was first collecting books I put [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[107],"class_list":["post-3459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-simon-says","tag-marijuana"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p99jGb-TN","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3459"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3481,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3459\/revisions\/3481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}