{"id":11946,"date":"2011-09-27T13:24:38","date_gmt":"2011-09-27T21:24:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=11946"},"modified":"2011-09-27T13:37:42","modified_gmt":"2011-09-27T21:37:42","slug":"dont-like-the-drugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/27\/dont-like-the-drugs\/","title":{"rendered":"Don’t Like the Drugs, but the War Must Cease"},"content":{"rendered":"

We’ve been devoting more coverage to the War on Drugs lately, so it’s worth noting when a politician says anything about it other than “full speed ahead.” It’s especially worth noting when a presidential candidate says “I fear the War on Drugs a lot more than I fear the drugs themselves” on a wildly popular TV show:<\/p>\n

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It’s true that he did not pledge to undo “America’s history of state-enforced slavery, apartheid, and sexism” and return all “land stolen from indigenous people”<\/a> \u2014 which you can be sure the Obama administration is working on right this minute, with Marty Peretz’s blessing<\/a> \u2014 but he might be onto something<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We’ve been devoting more coverage to the War on Drugs lately, so it’s worth noting when a politician says anything about it other than “full speed ahead.” It’s especially worth noting when a presidential candidate says “I fear the War on Drugs a lot more than I fear the drugs themselves” on a wildly popular […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,440,443,20,36,444],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-11946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drug-war","category-liberals","category-liberaltarians","category-libertarianism","category-ron-paul","category-will-wilkinson"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11946"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11956,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11946\/revisions\/11956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11946"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=11946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}