{"id":2430,"date":"2025-04-03T03:04:07","date_gmt":"2025-04-03T03:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marihuana.ro\/index.php\/2025\/04\/03\/cannabis-and-the-authoritarian-state-why-legalizing-cannabis-is-not-on-the-horizon\/"},"modified":"2025-04-03T03:04:07","modified_gmt":"2025-04-03T03:04:07","slug":"cannabis-and-the-authoritarian-state-why-legalizing-cannabis-is-not-on-the-horizon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marihuana.ro\/index.php\/2025\/04\/03\/cannabis-and-the-authoritarian-state-why-legalizing-cannabis-is-not-on-the-horizon\/","title":{"rendered":"Cannabis and the Authoritarian State &#8211; Why Legalizing Cannabis Is Not on the Horizon"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cannabis.net\/drive\/1000\/3743_Xthd_authoritiarinscannabs.jpg?width=200&amp;height=200\"><\/p>\n<p>Authoritarians cannot let go of the value that keeping the most widely used illicit substance in the world illegal provides them. This explains why the US hasn&#8217;t federally legalized cannabis despite nearly 80% of Americans supporting some form of legalization. It&#8217;s not because they don&#8217;t have enough research or that they&#8217;re genuinely concerned about public health\u2014it&#8217;s because prohibition gives them all the privileges of violating constitutional rights while siphoning money into their coffers.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Authoritarians cannot let go of the value that keeping the most widely used illicit substance in the world illegal provides them. This explains why the US hasn&#8217;t federally legalized cannabis despite nearly 80% of Americans supporting some form of legalization. It&#8217;s not because they don&#8217;t have enough research or that they&#8217;re genuinely concerned about public [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marihuana.ro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marihuana.ro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marihuana.ro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marihuana.ro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marihuana.ro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marihuana.ro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2430\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marihuana.ro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marihuana.ro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marihuana.ro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}