{"id":47135,"date":"2014-11-30T23:48:26","date_gmt":"2014-11-30T23:48:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/an_npr_piece_on_what_happens_when_the_monster_of_marijuana_comes_to_uruguay\/"},"modified":"2014-11-30T23:48:26","modified_gmt":"2014-11-30T23:48:26","slug":"an_npr_piece_on_what_happens_when_the_monster_of_marijuana_comes_to_uruguay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=47135","title":{"rendered":"An NPR piece on what Happens when the &#34;monster&#34; of Marijuana comes to Uruguay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Foreigners are dreaming big, but the locals seem a bit overwhelmed with all the interest in a new law that was passed legalizing marijuana in the last year.<\/p>\n<p>The law allows Uruguayans to register to grow their own weed, or join growing clubs \u201d\u201d cooperatives of up to 45 people \u201d\u201d for personal consumption.<\/p>\n<p>Under President Jose Mujica&#8217;s maverick leadership, Uruguay went further than any country in the world: The government will plant, cultivate and ultimately distribute marijuana, too.<\/p>\n<p>Mujica says decades of failed drug war policies necessitated a radical new approach to curb drug violence and addiction. If the government sells dope, the idea goes, the criminals can&#8217;t. But the reality has proven complicated, and some advocates say the government has bitten off more than it can chew.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/new.kendallharmon.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/parallels\/2014\/11\/30\/367258919\/uruguay-tries-to-tame-a-monster-called-cannibis\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Foreigners are dreaming big, but the locals seem a bit overwhelmed with all the interest in a new law that was passed legalizing marijuana in the last year. The law allows Uruguayans to register to grow their own weed, or<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=47135\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,50,175,582,589,99,149,168,144,119,104,114,151,208,34,608],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-anthropology","category-consumerconsumer-spending","category-corporationscorporate-life","category-drugsdrug-addiction","category-economy","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-foreign-relations","category-globalization","category-health-medicine","category-law-legal-issues","category-politics-in-general","category-south-america","category-theology","category-uruguay"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47135\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}