{"id":6055,"date":"2016-11-10T04:06:13","date_gmt":"2016-11-10T04:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2016\/11\/10\/arizona-pot-prop-205-defeated\/"},"modified":"2016-11-10T04:06:13","modified_gmt":"2016-11-10T04:06:13","slug":"arizona-pot-prop-205-defeated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2016\/11\/10\/arizona-pot-prop-205-defeated\/","title":{"rendered":"Arizona Pot Prop 205 Defeated"},"content":{"rendered":"

I smoked my fair share of the stuff back in the day, and so I know whereof I speak: more potheads will only hasten the Decline of the West in its prime instance, the U. S. of A.  <\/span><\/p>\n

Libertarians often argue that drug legalization would not lead to increased drug use.  I find that preposterous, and you should too.  There are at least three groups of people who are dissuaded from drug use by its being illegal.  See Libertarians and Drug Legalization.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

I don't know how much dope Gary Johnson smokes but he seems to suffer from traces of amotivational syndrome<\/a> as one might have gleaned from the collapse of his campaign.  (The Aleppo business, the sticking-out-of-tongue incident, his general dopiness.)  Even in dope-friendly Colorado, a good place to get Rocky Mountain high, he snagged only 4.9 % of the vote<\/a>.  <\/span><\/p>\n

As for the AZ pot prop, 47.9% voted<\/a> for legalization, and 52.1% against.  <\/span><\/p>\n

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I smoked my fair share of the stuff back in the day, and so I know whereof I speak: more potheads will only hasten the Decline of the West in its prime instance, the U. S. of A.   Libertarians often argue that drug legalization would not lead to increased drug use.  I find that … Continue reading “Arizona Pot Prop 205 Defeated”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[131],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arizona"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6055\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}