{"id":15857,"date":"2012-03-08T17:57:59","date_gmt":"2012-03-08T22:57:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=15857"},"modified":"2012-03-08T17:57:59","modified_gmt":"2012-03-08T22:57:59","slug":"pat-robertson-wants-to-legalise-pot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/pat-robertson-wants-to-legalise-pot\/","title":{"rendered":"Pat Robertson wants to legalise pot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/03\/08\/us\/pat-robertson-backs-legalizing-marijuana.html?_r=2&amp;smid=tw-nytimes&amp;seid=auto\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Of the many roles Pat Robertson has assumed over his five-decade-long career as an evangelical leader \u2014 including presidential candidate and provocative voice of the right wing \u2014 his newest guise may perhaps surprise his followers the most: marijuana legalization advocate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI really believe we should treat marijuana the way we treat beverage alcohol,\u201d Mr. Robertson said in an interview on Wednesday. \u201cI\u2019ve never used marijuana and I don\u2019t intend to, but it\u2019s just one of those things that I think: this war on drugs just hasn\u2019t succeeded.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This libertarian position \u2013 one I have a passing<em> <\/em>sympathy for \u2013 reminds me of William F Buckley\u2019s staunch support for legalising all drugs on the grounds that it isn\u2019t the government\u2019s job to limit people\u2019s freedom to choose their agent of stupefaction \u2013 lethal or not.<\/p>\n<p>The problem is, if government does not make legislation that limits freedom in order to encourage a functioning society, if its legislation is not grounded in a moral framework,\u00a0 then it should also not legislate against things like gay \u201cmarriage\u201d, polygamy, polyamory, bestiality and bawdy houses.<\/p>\n<p>I wonder if Pat Robertson would go along with that?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From here: Of the many roles Pat Robertson has assumed over his five-decade-long career as an evangelical leader \u2014 including presidential candidate and provocative voice of the right wing \u2014 his newest guise may perhaps surprise his followers the most: &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/pat-robertson-wants-to-legalise-pot\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":11,"footnotes":""},"categories":[120],"tags":[1202],"class_list":["post-15857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drug-use","tag-pat-robertson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15857\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}