{"id":35217,"date":"2013-04-21T08:22:10","date_gmt":"2013-04-21T12:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=35217"},"modified":"2013-04-21T08:23:23","modified_gmt":"2013-04-21T12:23:23","slug":"pothead-rally-turns-to-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=35217","title":{"rendered":"Pothead rally turns to violence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ex-PH2 sends us a link to an <a href=\"http:\/\/usnews.nbcnews.com\/_news\/2013\/04\/20\/17839615-shots-send-crowd-fleeing-at-massive-denver-marijuana-rally?lite\">NBC article<\/a> which tells the story of a crowd in Denver assembled to protest federal laws by thousands smoking pot in the streets which turned violent yesterday;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Three people were shot and wounded at a pro-marijuana rally on Saturday, disrupting the first celebration of a symbolic drug culture holiday since Colorado voters legalized the recreational use of pot.<\/p>\n<p>A man and a woman were each shot in the leg and a youth was grazed by a bullet, but the wounds were not life-threatening, Denver police said on Twitter. Officers were looking for two suspects in the shootings, which occurred as the rally was winding down.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I heard five or six gunshots in quick succession,&#8221; said Cole Wagenknecht, 27, who attended the rally at a downtown park near the State Capitol. &#8220;That&#8217;s why I knew it wasn&#8217;t fireworks. Then everybody started to scatter and ran toward one end of the park.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But, yeah, I&#8217;m thinking it&#8217;s the gun&#8217;s fault, not that it could be about  illegal drug use, at a rally that has as it&#8217;s theme, protesting a law that everyone at the rally is breaking because marijuana is completely harmless, ya know? Guns, on the other hand are inherently evil. So, yeah, it couldn&#8217;t be the drug culture, has to be the gun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ex-PH2 sends us a link to an NBC article which tells the story of a crowd &hellip; <a title=\"Pothead rally turns to violence\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=35217\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pothead rally turns to violence<\/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":[185],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35217","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=35217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35217\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}