{"id":655,"date":"2007-08-04T01:27:39","date_gmt":"2007-08-04T06:27:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/?p=655"},"modified":"2007-08-04T01:40:25","modified_gmt":"2007-08-04T06:40:25","slug":"abc-news-does-stiff-pot-policy-give-meth-free-ride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/2007\/08\/abc-news-does-stiff-pot-policy-give-meth-free-ride\/","title":{"rendered":"ABC News: Does Stiff Pot Policy Give Meth Free Ride?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/ap-drug-bust-070731-ms.jpg\" rel=\"shadowbox[sbpost-655];player=img;\"  onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/ap-drug-bust-070731-ms.jpg','popup','width=413,height=310,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\/08\/ap-drug-bust-070731-ms-tm.jpg\" height=\"300\" width=\"399\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Ap Drug Bust 070731 Ms\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/story?id=3433693&#038;page=1\" >ABC News: Does Stiff Pot Policy Give Meth Free Ride?<\/a>:<br \/>\nIs the Nation&#8217;s Marijuana Policy Misguided?<br \/>\nCritics Contend the Government Is Fighting Pot at the Expense of Battling Meth<\/p>\n<p>A Drug Enforcement Administration agent hands a freshly-pulled marijuana plant off to another law enforcement officer as they work to clear a patch of the weed near Entiant, Wash., Sept. 20, 2005. (Elaine Thompson\/ AP Photo )<\/p>\n<p>By RUSSELL GOLDMAN<br \/>\nAug. 1, 2007<br \/>\nSince the Marijuana Tax Act \u00e2\u20ac\u201d the first anti-marijuana federal law \u00e2\u20ac\u201d was signed by President Roosevelt 70 years ago Thursday, the debate over the drug&#8217;s effects, dangers and criminalization has raged unabated.<\/p>\n<p>The Bush administration has made marijuana its prime target in the war on drugs, spending billions of dollars on education camp<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ABC News: Does Stiff Pot Policy Give Meth Free Ride?: Is the Nation&#8217;s Marijuana Policy Misguided? Critics Contend the Government Is Fighting Pot at the Expense of Battling Meth A Drug Enforcement Administration agent hands a freshly-pulled marijuana plant off to another law enforcement officer as they work to clear a patch of the weed &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/2007\/08\/abc-news-does-stiff-pot-policy-give-meth-free-ride\/\"  class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">ABC News: Does Stiff Pot Policy Give Meth Free Ride?<\/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-655","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-az","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655","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=655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}