{"id":8941,"date":"2010-05-05T18:16:59","date_gmt":"2010-05-05T22:16:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=8941"},"modified":"2010-05-05T18:16:59","modified_gmt":"2010-05-05T22:16:59","slug":"our-fucked-up-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=8941","title":{"rendered":"Our Fucked-up Country"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I'm afraid nothing can be done. <a href=\"http:\/\/reason.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/05\/video-of-swat-raid-on-missouri?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+reason%2FHitandRun+%28Reason+Online+-+Hit+%26+Run+Blog%29&utm_content=Google+Reader\">This is what happens<\/a> when we fear something so much that we can't even have a conversation about it, when we refuse to do anything and allow fear to control the discussion - irrational fear of what pot does, and the cowardly fear of being demagogued as being soft on pot and on (the overextended catch-all phrase) \"drugs\" by people seeking political advantage. When we demand the use of unlimited force against things that we don't understand, then we suffer. Superstition ain't the way.<\/p>\n<p>So, unless we allow ourselves as a country to acknowledge that marijuana is not evil, and is not worth committing violence over, this kind of thing will continue to happen, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cato.org\/pub_display.php?pub_id=6476\">40,000<\/a> times a year. But we won't acknowledge that. We are cowards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I'm afraid nothing can be done. This is what happens when we fear something so much that we can't even have a conversation about it, when we refuse to do anything and allow fear to control the discussion - irrational fear of what pot does, and the cowardly fear of being demagogued as being soft [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8941\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}