{"id":5115,"date":"2010-08-31T07:23:08","date_gmt":"2010-08-31T11:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=5115"},"modified":"2010-08-31T07:23:08","modified_gmt":"2010-08-31T11:23:08","slug":"the-inevitable-result-of-that-crazy-marijuana-legalization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2010\/08\/31\/the-inevitable-result-of-that-crazy-marijuana-legalization\/","title":{"rendered":"The inevitable result of that crazy marijuana legalization"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just as drug warriors have been predicting for years, the Netherlands government is paying the price for their irresponsible and dangerous legalization of drugs: they&#8217;re having to <em>close<\/em> prisons for lack of criminals to <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.mpp.org\/prohibition\/netherlands-to-close-prisons-not-enough-criminals\/05262009\/\" target=\"_blank\">fill them with<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The Dutch government is getting ready to close eight prisons because they don\u2019t have enough criminals to fill them. Officials attribute the shortage of prisoners to a declining crime rate.<\/p>\n<p>Just for fun, let\u2019s compare the Netherlands to California. With a population of 16.6 million, the Dutch prison population is about 12,000. With its population of 36.7 million, California should have a bit more than double the Dutch prison population. California\u2019s actual prison population is 171,000.<\/p>\n<p>So, whose drug policies are keeping the streets safer?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just as drug warriors have been predicting for years, the Netherlands government is paying the price for their irresponsible and dangerous legalization of drugs: they&#8217;re having to close prisons for lack of criminals to fill them with: The Dutch government is getting ready to close eight prisons because they don\u2019t have enough criminals to fill [&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":[62,10,53],"tags":[343,119,222],"class_list":["post-5115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe","category-liberty","category-politics","tag-crimeandpunishment","tag-drugs","tag-netherlands"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-1kv","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5115","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=5115"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5117,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5115\/revisions\/5117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}