{"id":16573,"date":"2012-08-22T00:09:07","date_gmt":"2012-08-22T05:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=16573"},"modified":"2012-08-21T13:21:57","modified_gmt":"2012-08-21T18:21:57","slug":"reason-tv-can-legal-cannabis-revolutionize-the-us-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2012\/08\/22\/reason-tv-can-legal-cannabis-revolutionize-the-us-economy\/","title":{"rendered":"Reason.tv: Can legal cannabis revolutionize the US economy?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"853\" height=\"480\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uI22wehAl7Y\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;How can you have 56 percent of Americans in support of fully ending the drug war, and zero senators in support of it?&#8221; asks Doug Fine, investigative journalist and author of new book, <em>Too High To Fail<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Fine sat down with ReasonTV&#8217;s Tracy Oppenheimer to discuss his time spent in the cannabis capital of California, Mendocino County, and why he thinks this drug can help save the American economy. And it&#8217;s not just about collecting taxes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The industrial [uses] may one day dwarf the psychoactive ones. If we start using it for fermentation for our energy needs, it can produce great biofuels,&#8221; says Fine, &#8220;already, cannabis is in the bumpers of Dodge Vipers.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;How can you have 56 percent of Americans in support of fully ending the drug war, and zero senators in support of it?&#8221; asks Doug Fine, investigative journalist and author of new book, Too High To Fail. Fine sat down with ReasonTV&#8217;s Tracy Oppenheimer to discuss his time spent in the cannabis capital of California, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,9,10,13],"tags":[119,83,112,98,199],"class_list":["post-16573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-law","category-liberty","category-usa","tag-drugs","tag-marijuana","tag-organizedcrime","tag-police","tag-prohibition"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-4jj","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16573"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16574,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16573\/revisions\/16574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}