{"id":2553,"date":"2009-02-27T11:31:19","date_gmt":"2009-02-27T16:31:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/?p=2553"},"modified":"2009-02-27T11:31:19","modified_gmt":"2009-02-27T16:31:19","slug":"a-step-away-from-marijuana-madness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2009\/02\/27\/a-step-away-from-marijuana-madness\/","title":{"rendered":"(A Step Away From) Marijuana Madness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/c\/a\/2009\/02\/27\/MN2016651R.DTL&amp;hw=medical+marijuana&amp;sn=001&amp;sc=1000\">A not insignificant step forward<\/a> to a more intelligent approach to drugs in the US:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder is sending strong signals that President Obama &#8211; who as a candidate said states should be allowed to make their own rules on medical marijuana &#8211; will end raids on pot dispensaries in California.<\/p>\n<p>Asked at a Washington news conference Wednesday about Drug Enforcement Administration raids in California since Obama took office last month, Holder said the administration has changed its policy.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What the president said during the campaign, you&#8217;ll be surprised to know, will be consistent with what we&#8217;ll be doing here in law enforcement,&#8221; he said. &#8220;What he said during the campaign is now American policy.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Not a bad path towards budget cuts, either.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A not insignificant step forward to a more intelligent approach to drugs in the US: U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder is sending strong signals that President Obama &#8211; who as a candidate said states should be allowed to make their own rules on medical marijuana &#8211; will end raids on pot dispensaries in California. Asked [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law","category-policy","category-society"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2553"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2555,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2553\/revisions\/2555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}