{"id":21135,"date":"2010-11-10T15:11:42","date_gmt":"2010-11-10T19:11:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=21135"},"modified":"2010-11-10T15:18:08","modified_gmt":"2010-11-10T19:18:08","slug":"libertarians-were-wrong-unpossible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=21135","title":{"rendered":"Libertarians were wrong? Unpossible!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For decades, I&#8217;ve heard Libertarians tell me how if marijuana was legal, it could be taxed and would do away with prison overcrowding and the stigma related to being a pot smoker. Well, then tell me why the Dutch have to crack down on hemp plantations according to the <a href=\"http:\/\/ap.stripes.com\/dynamic\/stories\/E\/EU_NETHERLANDS_POT_PLANTATIONS?SITE=DCSAS&#038;SECTION=HOME&#038;TEMPLATE=DEFAULT\">Associated Press<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Cannabis cultivation has to stop,&#8221; police said in a statement. &#8220;It might seem innocent, but it&#8217;s not. Apart from the fact that it is illegal, interfering with water and electricity supplies often creates life-threatening situations.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Stedin said there are an estimated 40,000 illegal cannabis plantations in the Netherlands &#8211; the highest number per capita in Europe. Police destroy about 5,000 plantations each year.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Holy moley, do you mean all of those smarmy libertarians with Latin screen names like Pubicus Dickus are wrong? If the Dutch police are busting 5,000 pot farms every year, that&#8217;s 5,000 or more new prisoners in their jails and extrapolate that to the US population. And how far against a libertarian&#8217;s grain does the police asking for folks to tattle on their neighbors go?<\/p>\n<p>But then all of the Libertarians who want to legalize pot aren&#8217;t really libertarians, either. They&#8217;re Libertines.<\/p>\n<p>Imagine what else they could wrong about.<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t wait until they all tell me to read a book again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For decades, I&#8217;ve heard Libertarians tell me how if marijuana was legal, it could be taxed &hellip; <a title=\"Libertarians were wrong? Unpossible!\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=21135\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Libertarians were wrong? Unpossible!<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-libertines-suck"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21135\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}