{"id":56240,"date":"2016-11-05T20:04:28","date_gmt":"2016-11-05T20:04:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/cbs_marketwatch_brett_arends-the_case_against_legalizing_marijuana\/"},"modified":"2016-11-05T20:04:28","modified_gmt":"2016-11-05T20:04:28","slug":"cbs_marketwatch_brett_arends-the_case_against_legalizing_marijuana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=56240","title":{"rendered":"(CBS Marketwatch) Brett Arends&#8211;The case against legalizing marijuana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s what the actual medical research you need to know about \u201d\u201d from scientists, not lobbyists.<\/p>\n<p>1. The research does not show that marijuana is harmless or OK.<\/p>\n<p>2. Researchers at the University of Mississippi\u2019s Natural Center for Natural Products Research have found that marijuana available today may be up to five times stronger than the stuff available back in the 1970s, \u201980s, and \u201990s. Comparing \u201chippie pot\u201d\u009d to today\u2019s pot is like comparing beer to a bottle of vodka.<\/p>\n<p>3. Medical researchers at Columbia University found that drivers who had used marijuana were more than twice as likely to have a car crash.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/story\/warning-pot-pushers-are-hiding-an-inconvenient-truth-from-voters-2016-11-05\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s what the actual medical research you need to know about \u201d\u201d from scientists, not lobbyists. 1. The research does not show that marijuana is harmless or OK. 2. Researchers at the University of Mississippi\u2019s Natural Center for Natural Products<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=56240\">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":[39,40,50,209,175,99,168,104,151,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-americau-s-a","category-anthropology","category-drugsdrug-addiction","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-health-medicine","category-politics-in-general","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56240","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=56240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56240\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}