{"id":2083,"date":"2015-08-06T18:13:00","date_gmt":"2015-08-07T02:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/?p=2083"},"modified":"2015-08-06T18:23:04","modified_gmt":"2015-08-07T02:23:04","slug":"more-on-the-war-against-drugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/?p=2083","title":{"rendered":"More on the &ldquo;War Against Drugs&rdquo;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve noticed a number of recent articles in current journals\u2014Time, National Geographic, etc.\u2014that speak to the argument for the legalization of marijuana and the counter-push, the \u201cWar\u201d against drugs. Tobacco and Alcohol are excluded from this \u201cwar,\u201d please note, in spite of the extensive damage they do to health. In a recent book titled the <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Chasing-Scream-First-Last-Drugs\/dp\/1620408902#reader_1620408902\">Chasing the Scream<\/a><\/em>, the author notes how J. Edgar Hoover, the leader of the FBI in the mid-20th century, built a rather hypocritical career on the war against drugs, and racist themes are emphasized. I recommend this book as well as others who are raising their voices against this major source of income and \u201csuccess\u201d in the police and prison guard \u201cindustries.\u201d I spoke <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blatner.com\/adam\/psyntbk\/againstwarondrugs.html\">about this<\/a> at a local lifelong learning program. Just sayin\u2019&#8212;trends in culture seem to be aligning. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve noticed a number of recent articles in current journals\u2014Time, National Geographic, etc.\u2014that speak to the argument for the legalization of marijuana and the counter-push, the \u201cWar\u201d against drugs. Tobacco and Alcohol are excluded from this \u201cwar,\u201d please note, in spite of the extensive damage they do to health. In a recent book titled 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":[19,16,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-papers","category-whassup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2083"}],"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=2083"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2084,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2083\/revisions\/2084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}