{"id":1688,"date":"2013-11-14T02:56:20","date_gmt":"2013-11-14T02:56:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/reasonablyfaithless\/?p=1688"},"modified":"2013-11-14T02:56:20","modified_gmt":"2013-11-14T02:56:20","slug":"the-war-on-drugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/reasonablyfaithless\/2013\/11\/14\/the-war-on-drugs\/","title":{"rendered":"The war on drugs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I just watched this interesting and thought provoking video on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.upworthy.com\/why-the-war-on-drugs-looks-even-stupider-when-you-see-what-other-countries-do-4\">Upworthy<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; have a look &#8211; it&#8217;s less than 3 minutes long:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"&quot;Why Are So Many Violent Criminals Walking Free?&quot; | Learn Liberty\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XKPAn7uRcVY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Without going into details, I think there is definitely a &#8220;drug problem&#8221; that needs to be dealt with. \u00a0But the reality is that there are\u00a0<em>many<\/em> problems, and we have to prioritise them. \u00a0Nobody is seriously suggesting that we leave drug users and dealers alone. \u00a0But perhaps we could focus more of our attention on the big bosses, the\u00a0source of the drug problem, rather than on the end users, who typically don&#8217;t harm people. \u00a0With the extra money and man-hours left over, there would be more resources available to increasingly tackle serious issues such as violent and sexual crimes.<\/p>\n<p>I could say more, but I&#8217;ll just let the video speak for itself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; I just watched this interesting and thought provoking video on Upworthy\u00a0&#8211; have a look &#8211; it&#8217;s less than 3&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[148,147],"tags":[245,244],"class_list":["post-1688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drugs","category-society","tag-drugs","tag-society"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/reasonablyfaithless\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/reasonablyfaithless\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/reasonablyfaithless\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/reasonablyfaithless\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/reasonablyfaithless\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/reasonablyfaithless\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1688\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/reasonablyfaithless\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/reasonablyfaithless\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/reasonablyfaithless\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}