{"id":3599,"date":"2016-06-11T08:03:34","date_gmt":"2016-06-11T13:03:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blueberrytown.com\/?p=3599"},"modified":"2016-06-11T08:03:34","modified_gmt":"2016-06-11T13:03:34","slug":"justin-trudeau-legal-weed-and-the-progressive-impulse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blueberrytown.com\/index.php\/2016\/06\/11\/justin-trudeau-legal-weed-and-the-progressive-impulse\/","title":{"rendered":"Justin Trudeau, legal weed, and the progressive impulse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The Washington Post<\/em>&#8216;s Wonkblog <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/wonk\/wp\/2016\/06\/10\/why-people-who-hate-marijuana-should-legalize-it-anyway-according-to-justin-trudeau\/\" target=\"_blank\">argues that<\/a> &#8220;Justin Trudeau may have made the best case for legal pot ever.&#8221; Trudeau argues that young people are going to smoke it anyway, it is in fact <em>more<\/em> available because it is illegal and unregulated, and billions of dollars end up in the hands of organized crime which then does lots of other bad things.<\/p>\n<p>Read it if you dare, but that is actually the most <em>banal<\/em> argument for legal pot ever. It<br \/>\namounts exactly to this: &#8220;Prohibition was a great idea, but it made alcohol more fashionable among people who had not been drinking before and the mob and official corruption screwed it all up.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>How about, &#8220;it shouldn&#8217;t be illegal to smoke a plant, ever.&#8221; Or to distill one.<\/p>\n<p>That liberals decided to rebrand themselves as &#8220;progressives,&#8221; the name of the movement that gave us Prohibition, perhaps the most socially pestilential idea <em>ever<\/em>, is the most compelling evidence that Americans don&#8217;t do history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Post&#8216;s Wonkblog argues that &#8220;Justin Trudeau may have made the best case for legal pot ever.&#8221; Trudeau argues that young people are going to smoke it anyway, it is in fact more available because it is illegal and unregulated, and billions of dollars end up in the hands of organized crime which then does lots of other bad things. Read it if you dare, but that is actually the most banal argument for legal pot ever. It amounts exactly to this: &#8220;Prohibition was a great idea, but it made alcohol more fashionable among people who had not been drinking before and the mob and official corruption screwed it all up.&#8221; How about, &#8220;it shouldn&#8217;t be illegal to smoke a plant, ever.&#8221; Or to distill one. That liberals decided to rebrand themselves as &#8220;progressives,&#8221; the name of the movement that gave us Prohibition, perhaps the most socially pestilential idea ever, is the most compelling evidence that Americans don&#8217;t do history.<\/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,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[176],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-freedom-aint-free"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7t3qc-W3","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blueberrytown.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blueberrytown.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blueberrytown.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueberrytown.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueberrytown.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3599"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blueberrytown.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3602,"href":"https:\/\/blueberrytown.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3599\/revisions\/3602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blueberrytown.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueberrytown.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueberrytown.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}