{"id":183125,"date":"2015-03-02T21:43:00","date_gmt":"2015-03-03T02:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/03\/02\/headline-of-the-day-130\/"},"modified":"2015-03-02T21:43:00","modified_gmt":"2015-03-03T02:43:00","slug":"headline-of-the-day-130","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/03\/02\/headline-of-the-day-130\/","title":{"rendered":"Headline of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

DEA Warns of Stoned Rabbits if Utah Passes Medical Marijuana<\/span><\/b><\/a>.<\/p>\n

The dead enders in the drug prohibition industry have become increasingly shrill as the rest of the population realizes that prison works to fight drug use like gasoline puts out fires. <\/p>\n

The story gets even weirder:<\/p>\n

Utah is considering a bill<\/a> that would allow patients with certain debilitating conditions to be treated with edible forms of marijuana. If the bill passes, the state’s wildlife may “cultivate a taste” for the plant, lose their fear of humans, and basically be high all the time. That’s according to testimony presented to a Utah Senate panel<\/a> (time stamp 58:00) last week by an agent of the Drug Enforcement Administration. <\/span>

<\/span>“I deal in facts. I deal in science,” said special agent Matt Fairbanks, who’s been working in the state for a decade. He is member of the “marijuana eradication<\/a>” team in Utah. Some of his colleagues in Georgia recently achieved notoriety by raiding a retiree’s garden and seizing a number of okra plants<\/a><\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

.(emphasis original<\/i>)<\/p>\n

Illegal pot growing does constitute an environmental issue, frequently the farms contribute to erosion, and apply various agricultural chemicals to excess, but stoned bunny rabbits?<\/p>\n

Seriously?<\/p>\n

I think that this “Reefer Madness” bullsh%$ needs to be called out.<\/p>\n

I will note that the Utah senate panel went with sanity, as opposed to the, “Think of the poor bunnies,” claptrap, and passed the bill along to the state senate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

DEA Warns of Stoned Rabbits if Utah Passes Medical Marijuana. The dead enders in the drug prohibition industry have become increasingly shrill as the rest of the population realizes that prison works to fight drug use like gasoline puts out fires. The story gets even weirder: Utah is considering a bill that would allow patients …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[962,1013,1041,1020,982,979,1015],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-40yrs","category-drugs","category-law-enforcement-misconduct","category-legislation","category-stupid","category-wanker","category-weird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183125"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183125\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}