{"id":483637,"date":"2022-01-25T09:10:23","date_gmt":"2022-01-25T09:10:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=232101"},"modified":"2022-01-25T09:10:23","modified_gmt":"2022-01-25T09:10:23","slug":"liberty-includes-the-right-to-possess-and-consume-drugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2022\/01\/25\/liberty-includes-the-right-to-possess-and-consume-drugs\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberty Includes the Right to Possess and Consume Drugs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By now, even the most ardent of drug warriors has to admit that the drug war has been a manifest failure, at least if the goal was to eradicate drug use in America. At the same time, most everyone must now acknowledge the widespread violence, death, suffering, mass incarceration, infringements on civil liberties, asset forfeiture,  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2022\/01\/25\/liberty-includes-the-right-to-possess-and-consume-drugs\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2022\/01\/25\/liberty-includes-the-right-to-possess-and-consume-drugs\/\">Liberty Includes the Right to Possess and Consume Drugs<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2022\/01\/25\/liberty-includes-the-right-to-possess-and-consume-drugs\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By now, even the most ardent of drug warriors has to admit that the drug war has been a manifest failure, at least if the goal was to eradicate drug use in America. At the same time, most everyone must now acknowledge the widespread violence, death, su&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483637"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=483637"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":484588,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483637\/revisions\/484588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=483637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}