{"id":948,"date":"2009-08-17T17:02:14","date_gmt":"2009-08-17T17:02:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/astraea.net\/blog\/?p=948"},"modified":"2009-08-18T18:18:43","modified_gmt":"2009-08-18T18:18:43","slug":"america-votes-for-cocaine-with-dollar-bills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/america-votes-for-cocaine-with-dollar-bills\/","title":{"rendered":"America votes for cocaine with dollar bills."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>95% of dollar bills in Washington DC bear traces of cocaine.  The lowest proportion is 77% in Salt Lake City.<\/p>\n<p>Many are obviously contaminated as they ciculate through banks, ATM and pockets.<\/p>\n<p>But it seems like such a big number that a majority of people would condone legalisation.\u00a0 That day will come when as a species we can behave responsibly, but not for a while.<\/p>\n<p>CNN: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2009\/HEALTH\/08\/14\/cocaine.traces.money\/index.html?eref=ib_topstories\">90 percent of U.S. bills carry traces of cocaine<\/a><\/p>\n<p>BBC: <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/americas\/8204857.stm\">US banknotes show cocaine traces<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>95% of dollar bills in Washington DC bear traces of cocaine. The lowest proportion is 77% in Salt Lake City. Many are obviously contaminated as they ciculate through banks, ATM and pockets. But it seems like such a big number that a majority of people would condone legalisation.\u00a0 That day will come when as a &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/america-votes-for-cocaine-with-dollar-bills\/\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">America votes for cocaine with dollar bills.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"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}},"categories":[13,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-living"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4hwcd-fi","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948","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=948"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":949,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948\/revisions\/949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}