{"id":2817,"date":"2026-03-17T03:03:30","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T03:03:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marihuana.ro\/index.php\/2026\/03\/17\/america-doesnt-have-a-marijuana-problem-it-has-a-hypocrisy-problem-and-the-new-york-times-just-proved-it\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T03:03:30","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T03:03:30","slug":"america-doesnt-have-a-marijuana-problem-it-has-a-hypocrisy-problem-and-the-new-york-times-just-proved-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marihuana.ro\/index.php\/2026\/03\/17\/america-doesnt-have-a-marijuana-problem-it-has-a-hypocrisy-problem-and-the-new-york-times-just-proved-it\/","title":{"rendered":"America Doesn&#8217;t Have a Marijuana Problem, It has a Hypocrisy Problem, and the New York Times Just Proved It"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cannabis.net\/drive\/1000\/3743_wCuD_newyorktimesweedstory.jpg?width=200&amp;height=200\"><\/p>\n<p>On February 9th, 2026, the New York Times editorial board published a piece titled &#8220;It&#8217;s Time for America to Admit That It Has a Marijuana Problem.&#8221; I read it. I read it again. I sat with my coffee and I thought: after fifty years of calling cannabis a dangerous drug, after helping architect the moral panic that sent millions of people to prison for a plant, after cheerleading a drug war that killed tens of thousands and enriched criminal organizations across two continents \u2014 the Times has decided the problem with marijuana is that people are using too much of it.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On February 9th, 2026, the New York Times editorial board published a piece titled &#8220;It&#8217;s Time for America to Admit That It Has a Marijuana Problem.&#8221; I read it. I read it again. I sat with my coffee and I thought: after fifty years of calling cannabis a dangerous drug, after helping architect the moral [&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-2817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marihuana.ro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2817","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=2817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marihuana.ro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2817\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marihuana.ro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marihuana.ro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marihuana.ro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}