{"id":535670,"date":"2010-04-20T14:25:39","date_gmt":"2010-04-20T18:25:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.campaignforliberty.com\/blog.php?view=34820"},"modified":"2010-04-20T14:25:39","modified_gmt":"2010-04-20T18:25:39","slug":"ron-paul-end-insanity-of-the-war-on-drugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/535670","title":{"rendered":"Ron Paul &#8211; &#8220;End Insanity Of The War on Drugs&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Matt Hawes<\/p>\n<p>Be sure to check out Congressman Paul&#8217;s new op-ed on CNBC.com dealing with the failures of the federal government&#8217;s war on drugs and the resulting increased risk to Americans:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Many will have the knee-jerk reaction of wanting to see more of a crackdown on illegal drugs. But I have to ask: Haven&#8217;t we been cracking down on drugs for several decades only to see the black market flourish and the violence escalate? Could there be a more effective approach?&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>The War on Drugs skews the priorities of law enforcement to the detriment of the public&#8230;.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/id\/36267220\/\" >Read the rest.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Matt Hawes Be sure to check out Congressman Paul&#8217;s new op-ed on CNBC.com dealing with the failures of the federal government&#8217;s war on drugs and the resulting increased risk to Americans: Many will have the knee-jerk reaction of wanting to see more of a crackdown on illegal drugs. But I have to ask: Haven&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3999,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-535670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3999"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=535670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535670\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=535670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=535670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=535670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}