{"id":187388,"date":"2013-03-17T19:04:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-18T00:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/03\/17\/who-says-that-irony-is-dead-11\/"},"modified":"2013-03-17T19:04:00","modified_gmt":"2013-03-18T00:04:00","slug":"who-says-that-irony-is-dead-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/03\/17\/who-says-that-irony-is-dead-11\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Says that Irony is Dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, it&#8217;s ironic that one of the leading opponents of Marijuana decriminalization in New York State was <a href=\"http:\/\/nyaltnews.com\/2013\/03\/katznip-anti-pot-republican-arrested-marijuana-possession\/52271\/\">was busted for possession<\/a>, but true irony would involve him being beaten up by said cop&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Republican New York State Assemblyman Steve Katz (AD-99) was arrested Thursday morning for possession of marijuana after he was pulled over for speeding to Albany for a legislative session.  The New York State Trooper who pulled over Katz smelled marijuana in the conservative Assemblyman\u2019s car.  Katz then surrendered a bag of weed to the Trooper.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">Katz, who has strong Tea Party backing in the lower Hudson Valley, has opposed legalizing medical marijuana treatments for New Yorkers with conditions such as cancer and glaucoma while in the Assembly. The outspoken conservative with was first elected to the Assembly  in 2010. He sits on the alcoholism and drug abuse committee, as well as its committees on higher education, mental health and economic development.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I do love the headline to this story though, &#8220;<b><span style=\"font-variant: small-caps;\">Katznip<\/span><\/b>&#8220;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, it&#8217;s ironic that one of the leading opponents of Marijuana decriminalization in New York State was was busted for possession, but true irony would involve him being beaten up by said cop&#8221; Republican New York State Assemblyman Steve Katz (AD-99) was arrested Thursday morning for possession of marijuana after he was pulled over for &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1013,1051,1020,978],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drugs","category-hypocrisy","category-legislation","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187388"}],"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=187388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187388\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}