{"id":2596,"date":"2020-01-01T22:05:15","date_gmt":"2020-01-01T22:05:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/?p=2596"},"modified":"2020-01-01T22:05:15","modified_gmt":"2020-01-01T22:05:15","slug":"illinois-is-a-bit-different","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/?p=2596","title":{"rendered":"Illinois is a bit different"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I&#8217;m impressed with how Illinois rolled out it&#8217;s pot legalization program. There are far more people standing in lines around the state than I&#8217;ve seen before, far more than possibly could be served by any store. The day was marked by politicians showing up (governor&#8217;s office, legislators, mayors, aldermen) and participating. The sheer number of folks is remarkable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I don&#8217;t think they were standing in a mile-long line (quiet, orderly, few police needed) to buy an eighth of weed (which they probably wouldn&#8217;t get) but to make a statement. Today was a demonstration. A display against the war on drugs. Nixon started it with his vendetta against the black rights movement and the anti-war hippies. Nancy Reagan had her &#8220;Just Say No&#8221; campaign. Joe Biden had his lock &#8217;em up mass incarceration philosophy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These were people proclaiming their dissatisfaction with those policies, not just waiting to buy some pot to get high. It was a notable day in Chicago, not just about some new stores opening up&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m impressed with how Illinois rolled out it&#8217;s pot legalization program. There are far more people standing in lines around the state than I&#8217;ve seen before, far more than possibly could be served by any store. The day was marked by politicians showing up (governor&#8217;s office, legislators, mayors, aldermen) and participating. The sheer number of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2596","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\/2596","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=2596"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2597,"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2596\/revisions\/2597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}