{"id":8989,"date":"2012-04-21T01:23:54","date_gmt":"2012-04-21T08:23:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/?p=8989"},"modified":"2012-04-21T01:24:13","modified_gmt":"2012-04-21T08:24:13","slug":"top-drug-reformer-obama-is-worse-than-bush-on-marijuana-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/2012\/04\/top-drug-reformer-obama-is-worse-than-bush-on-marijuana-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"Top drug reformer: \u2018Obama is worse than Bush\u2019 on marijuana policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-content\/upload\/2012\/04\/dollarbillweed-flickruservhhammer.jpg\" alt=\"Dollarbillweed flickruservhhammer\" title=\"dollarbillweed-flickruservhhammer.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"600\" height=\"336\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/rs\/2012\/04\/20\/top-drug-reformer-obama-is-worse-than-bush-on-marijuana-policy\/\" >Top drug reformer: \u2018Obama is worse than Bush\u2019 on marijuana policy | The Raw Story<\/a>: &#8220;Rob Kampia (pictured, left), director of the Marijuana Policy Project (MPP), has been working on drug policy issues for 17 long years, and during that time he\u2019s seen a dramatic shift toward legalization in the U.S. political climate.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately for reform advocates, he told Raw Story recently that the shift in presidential politics has gone in the exact opposite direction. \u201cWe started MPP when Clinton was president,\u201d Kampia explained. \u201cClinton was horrible. Bush was worse than Clinton\u2026 and Obama is worse than Bush.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But it\u2019s not all bad news, he said. \u201dCongress has generally become more receptive. If you were to take the pulse of Congress, you\u2019d see we have more support for medical marijuana, as well as ending marijuana prohibition entirely, in Congress now than we did a decade ago, there\u2019s no question.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p>(Via <a href=\"\"><\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Top drug reformer: \u2018Obama is worse than Bush\u2019 on marijuana policy | The Raw Story: &#8220;Rob Kampia (pictured, left), director of the Marijuana Policy Project (MPP), has been working on drug policy issues for 17 long years, and during that time he\u2019s seen a dramatic shift toward legalization in the U.S. political climate. Unfortunately for &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/2012\/04\/top-drug-reformer-obama-is-worse-than-bush-on-marijuana-policy\/\"  class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Top drug reformer: \u2018Obama is worse than Bush\u2019 on marijuana policy<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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-8989","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-2kZ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8989","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=8989"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8991,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8989\/revisions\/8991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}