{"id":2018,"date":"2015-06-16T16:05:00","date_gmt":"2015-06-17T00:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/?p=2018"},"modified":"2015-06-22T16:05:32","modified_gmt":"2015-06-23T00:05:32","slug":"the-counter-productive-war-on-drugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/?p=2018","title":{"rendered":"The Counter-Productive &ldquo;War on Drugs&rdquo;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following up on the \u201cWar on Drugs\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blatner.com\/adam\/psyntbk\/againstwarondrugs.html\">blog entry #1380<\/a> (and on my website), there has been another pulse: This last week for our summer lectures of miscellaneous presentations at Senior University Georgetown (which I helped found 17 years or so ago), one of the speakers, Russell Jones, gave a talk on parallels between the Vietnam War and the \u201cWar on Drugs\u201d\u2014and also noted his book, \u201cHonorable Intentions\u201d\u2014the epilogue of which only updates the futile, expensive, crime-provoking (not just petty but big crime syndicate business!), enterprise this game of cops-and-robbers generates, with profound unwanted side effects.&#160; (This epilogue has been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blatner.com\/adam\/psyntbk\/againstdrugwar2.html\">published here<\/a>.)&#160; All this extends and confirms lectures and web postings I made. a lecture I gave about 11 years ago and put on my website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following up on the \u201cWar on Drugs\u201d blog entry #1380 (and on my website), there has been another pulse: This last week for our summer lectures of miscellaneous presentations at Senior University Georgetown (which I helped found 17 years or so ago), one of the speakers, Russell Jones, gave a talk on parallels between the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-reviews","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2018"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2018"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2018\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2019,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2018\/revisions\/2019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}