{"id":1827,"date":"2017-02-23T01:24:54","date_gmt":"2017-02-23T01:24:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/?p=1827"},"modified":"2017-02-23T01:24:54","modified_gmt":"2017-02-23T01:24:54","slug":"pot-nuclear-weapons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/?p=1827","title":{"rendered":"Pot:  Nuclear Weapons."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I quote:<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Trent Franks (Ariz.) told CNN on Wednesday morning that a nuclear bomb could be smuggled into the United States hidden inside marijuana.<\/p>\n<p>Google it and see some of hilarious responses to this.<\/p>\n<p>I was there the night we came up with this idea I think in 1969.  We were sitting around mocking the Drug Enforcement Agency and Border control for their ineptitude in &#8220;stopping marijuana&#8221; from crossing the border.  I owe a lot of the idea to my friends and to the high quality of the smuggled Mexican weed we were smoking.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve become aware that some folks don&#8217;t get some of my writing.  Let me try this joke again:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The DEA and border control couldn&#8217;t stop marijuana if it was wrapped around an atomic bomb&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>For 50 fucking years we&#8217;ve been pouring money into a completely useless effort, and all we have to show for it is an imbecile Congressman that somehow heard a stoner joke from the Beatles&#8217; Days.  When they were alive!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I quote: Rep. Trent Franks (Ariz.) told CNN on Wednesday morning that a nuclear bomb could be smuggled into the United States hidden inside marijuana. Google it and see some of hilarious responses to this. I was there the night we came up with this idea I think in 1969. We were sitting around mocking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1827"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1829,"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1827\/revisions\/1829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}