{"id":467,"date":"2007-06-29T13:52:57","date_gmt":"2007-06-29T18:52:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/?p=467"},"modified":"2007-06-29T13:53:08","modified_gmt":"2007-06-29T18:53:08","slug":"stevens-smoking-pot-akin-to-drinking-during-prohibition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/2007\/06\/stevens-smoking-pot-akin-to-drinking-during-prohibition\/","title":{"rendered":"Stevens: Smoking pot akin to drinking during prohibition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/250px-justice-stevens.jpg\" rel=\"shadowbox[sbpost-467];player=img;\"  onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/250px-justice-stevens.jpg','popup','width=250,height=323,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/250px-justice-stevens-tm.jpg\" height=\"100\" width=\"77\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"250Px-Justice Stevens\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/rawstory.com\/news\/2007\/Stevens_Smoking_pot_akin_to_drinking_0627.html\" >The Raw Story | Stevens: Smoking pot akin to drinking during prohibition<\/a>:<br \/>\nIn his dissent on a recent free-speech case, Justice John Paul Stevens wades into the war-on-drugs debate, comparing modern-day pot smokers with &#8220;otherwise law-abiding patrons of bootleggers and speakeasies,&#8221; during the prohibition era.<\/p>\n<p>Stevens, who the Washington Post notes turned 87 on April 20, said the current climate surrounding the war on drugs &#8220;is reminiscent of the opinion that supported the nationwide ban on alcohol consumption when I was a student.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Supreme Court this week ruled against an Alaska student who displayed a &#8220;BONG HiTS 4 JESUS&#8221; sign at an event outside his high school, and Stevens wrote the dissent for the four justices who believed the student&#8217;s free-speech rights should be protected.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Today the actions of literally millions of otherwise law-abiding users of marijuana, and of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Raw Story | Stevens: Smoking pot akin to drinking during prohibition: In his dissent on a recent free-speech case, Justice John Paul Stevens wades into the war-on-drugs debate, comparing modern-day pot smokers with &#8220;otherwise law-abiding patrons of bootleggers and speakeasies,&#8221; during the prohibition era. Stevens, who the Washington Post notes turned 87 on April &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/2007\/06\/stevens-smoking-pot-akin-to-drinking-during-prohibition\/\"  class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Stevens: Smoking pot akin to drinking during prohibition<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4RRl-7x","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}