{"id":28807,"date":"2014-11-25T00:01:55","date_gmt":"2014-11-25T05:01:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=28807"},"modified":"2014-11-22T10:53:18","modified_gmt":"2014-11-22T15:53:18","slug":"qotd-rand-paul-and-the-war-on-drugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2014\/11\/25\/qotd-rand-paul-and-the-war-on-drugs\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Rand Paul and the war on drugs"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>I&#8217;ll do everything to end the war on drugs. &#8230; The war on drugs has become the most racially disparate outcome that you have in the entire country. Our prisons are full of black and brown kids. Three-fourths of the people in prison are black or brown, and white kids are using drugs, Bill, as you know &#8230; at the same rate as these other kids. But kids who have less means, less money, kids who are in areas where police are patrolling &#8230; Police are given monetary incentives to make arrests, monetary incentives for their own departments. So I want to end the war on drugs because it&#8217;s wrong for everybody, but particularly because poor people are caught up in this, and their lives are ruined by it. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/reason.com\/blog\/2014\/11\/18\/rand-paul-last-week-i-want-to-end-the-wa?\" target=\"_blank\">Rand Paul, speaking to Bill Maher<\/a>, 2014-11-15.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ll do everything to end the war on drugs. &#8230; The war on drugs has become the most racially disparate outcome that you have in the entire country. Our prisons are full of black and brown kids. Three-fourths of the people in prison are black or brown, and white kids are using drugs, Bill, as [&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":[9,10,41,13],"tags":[119,267,98,91,99,573],"class_list":["post-28807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law","category-liberty","category-quotations","category-usa","tag-drugs","tag-justice","tag-police","tag-poverty","tag-racism","tag-randpaul"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-7uD","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28807","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=28807"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28808,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28807\/revisions\/28808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}