{"id":41,"date":"2011-01-26T05:08:15","date_gmt":"2011-01-26T10:08:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thesolutionist.us\/?p=41"},"modified":"2013-08-27T21:14:36","modified_gmt":"2013-08-28T02:14:36","slug":"legalization-of-drugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thesolutionist.us\/?p=41","title":{"rendered":"Legalization of Drugs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The war on drugs is a complete and utter failure.\u00a0 This is not because we are doing is wrong.\u00a0 It is not because we need a greater commitment.\u00a0 It is not because the other side is smarter than we are.\u00a0 It is certainly not because we are not spending enough money.\u00a0 The reason we are failing is because we are doing it.<\/p>\n<p>We should have, and eventually did learn an important lesson from the prohibition on alcohol.\u00a0 <strong>It didn\u2019t work!<\/strong> That was the lesson we learned so we stopped trying to prohibit production, sale and use of alcohol and took the saner and more effective approach of placing some controls on the production, sale and the consequences of inappropriate behavior resulting from the use of alcohol.\u00a0 Yes, there is still abuse, but we are far better off than we were during prohibition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The war on drugs is a complete and utter failure.\u00a0 This is not because we are doing is wrong.\u00a0 It is not because we need a greater commitment.\u00a0 It is not because the other side is smarter than we are.\u00a0 It is certainly not because we are not spending enough money.\u00a0 The reason we are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drug-legalization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thesolutionist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thesolutionist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thesolutionist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thesolutionist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thesolutionist.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thesolutionist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42,"href":"https:\/\/www.thesolutionist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions\/42"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thesolutionist.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thesolutionist.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thesolutionist.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}