{"id":18,"date":"2008-02-29T14:58:13","date_gmt":"2008-02-29T19:58:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/suburra.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/pro-drugs-column-runs-in-uk\/"},"modified":"2011-11-08T22:49:24","modified_gmt":"2011-11-09T03:49:24","slug":"pro-drugs-column-runs-in-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/suburra.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/29\/pro-drugs-column-runs-in-uk\/","title":{"rendered":"Pro-Drugs Column Runs In UK"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>London’s esteemed Times<\/em> newspaper ran a pro-drugs piece by one of its columnists, Martin Samuel (left). This is amazing. In the United States even articles that simply make policy arguments against drug prohibition – while still echoing the “drugs are bad” mantra – are almost never published. (See Eric Sterling’s post, LINK<\/a>.) Samuel’s piece was a flat-out defense of recreational drugs. Wow.<\/p>\n

Now I don’t see my views on drugs reflected too often in the mainstream media, so here goes. This is the comedian Bill Hicks quoted in performance at the Laff Stop, Austin, Texas, December 1991. “I don’t do drugs anymore,” he said, “but I’ll tell you something honestly: I had a great time doing drugs. Sorry. Never murdered anyone, never robbed anyone, never raped anyone, never beat anyone, never lost a job, a car, a house, a wife, or kids. Laughed my ass off, and went about my day. Sorry.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Martin Samuel, “Better to Have an E Than a Bee,” Times<\/em>, 4 Jan. 2008. LINK<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
London’s esteemed Times newspaper ran a pro-drugs piece by one of its columnists, Martin Samuel (left). This is amazing. In the United States even articles that simply make policy arguments against drug prohibition – while still echoing the “drugs are bad” mantra – are almost never published. (See Eric Sterling’s post, LINK.) Samuel’s piece was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[82,13,20,1],"tags":[387],"class_list":["post-18","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drugs","category-ecstasy","category-media-bias","category-uncategorized","tag-martin-samuel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/suburra.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/suburra.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/suburra.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/suburra.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/suburra.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/suburra.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/suburra.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/suburra.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/suburra.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}