{"id":684,"date":"2009-03-05T21:46:45","date_gmt":"2009-03-05T21:46:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/astraea.net\/blog\/?p=684"},"modified":"2009-03-12T22:01:58","modified_gmt":"2009-03-12T22:01:58","slug":"legalisation-is-the-least-bad-solution-stop-the-drug-wars-and-save-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/legalisation-is-the-least-bad-solution-stop-the-drug-wars-and-save-money\/","title":{"rendered":"Legalisation is the least bad solution: stop the drug wars and save money."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/printedition\/displayStory.cfm?Story_ID=13237193\">How to stop the drug wars<\/a> &#8211; An unusual leader for The Economist, and perhaps a bit surprising in this economic crisis.\u00a0 But the arguments are sound.\u00a0 In a nutshell, prohibition doesn&#8217;t work, it rewards criminals, penalises poor farmers, and costs governments much money.\u00a0 Legalisation, though imperfect would save billions and allow governments to focus on education and cure while removing a significant source of cash for criminals.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/printedition\/displayStory.cfm?Story_ID=13237193\">Read on here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Also,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/displaystory.cfm?story_id=13234134\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/displaystory.cfm?story_id=13234134\">How narcotics are policed<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/displaystory.cfm?story_id=13234157\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/displaystory.cfm?story_id=13234157\">Dealing with drugs in Mexico<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/displaystory.cfm?story_id=13234124\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/displaystory.cfm?story_id=13234124\">How cocaine is sold<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/displaystory.cfm?story_id=13234144\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/displaystory.cfm?story_id=13234144\">Drug education in America <\/a><span class=\"date\"> <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How to stop the drug wars &#8211; An unusual leader for The Economist, and perhaps a bit surprising in this economic crisis.\u00a0 But the arguments are sound.\u00a0 In a nutshell, prohibition doesn&#8217;t work, it rewards criminals, penalises poor farmers, and costs governments much money.\u00a0 Legalisation, though imperfect would save billions and allow governments to focus &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/legalisation-is-the-least-bad-solution-stop-the-drug-wars-and-save-money\/\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Legalisation is the least bad solution: stop the drug wars and save money.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[12,25,13,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","category-education","category-health","category-living"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4hwcd-b2","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=684"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":685,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684\/revisions\/685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}