{"id":33728,"date":"2017-10-05T01:00:23","date_gmt":"2017-10-05T05:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=33728"},"modified":"2024-02-13T22:35:22","modified_gmt":"2024-02-14T03:35:22","slug":"qotd-legalizing-drugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2017\/10\/05\/qotd-legalizing-drugs\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Legalizing drugs"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>It is not the business of the State to tell adults what to do with themselves, or how they interact with other consenting adults. Where drugs are concerned, any disadvantages in leaving people alone are greatly outweighed by the costs of the War on Drugs, which has reduced large parts of the world to violent chaos, and corrupted every law enforcement agency involved in fighting it, and been made an excuse for the destruction of due process rights in England and America. <\/p>\n<p>Sean Gabb, quoted in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seangabb.co.uk\/wayne-john-sturgeon-talks-to-sean-gabb-2013\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;Wayne John Sturgeon talks to Sean Gabb of the Libertarian Alliance&#8221;, <em>Sean Gabb<\/em><\/a>, 2013-08-26.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is not the business of the State to tell adults what to do with themselves, or how they interact with other consenting adults. Where drugs are concerned, any disadvantages in leaving people alone are greatly outweighed by the costs of the War on Drugs, which has reduced large parts of the world to violent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"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],"tags":[363,119,98,217,1468],"class_list":["post-33728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law","category-liberty","category-quotations","tag-corruption","tag-drugs","tag-police","tag-rights","tag-seangabb"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-8M0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33728","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=33728"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87356,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33728\/revisions\/87356"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}