{"id":485,"date":"2013-01-24T19:36:59","date_gmt":"2013-01-24T19:36:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alaskahemp.com\/420\/?p=485"},"modified":"2013-02-12T06:06:19","modified_gmt":"2013-02-12T06:06:19","slug":"marijuana-legalization-would-promote-drug-use-dea-contends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/alaskahemp.com\/420\/marijuana-legalization-would-promote-drug-use-dea-contends\/","title":{"rendered":"Marijuana Legalization Would Promote Drug Use, DEA Contends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Posted:\u00a001\/23\/2013 1:25 pm EST<\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON &#8212; Recent state efforts to legalize marijuana pose a challenge for the Drug Enforcement Administration because they would increase marijuana&#8217;s availability and promote drug use, the DEA said in a filing released Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Recently, efforts to legalize marijuana have increased. Keeping marijuana illegal reduces its availability and lessens willingness to use it,&#8221; the DEA said in a financial statement for fiscal year 2012 made public on Wednesday. &#8220;Legalizing marijuana would increase accessibility and encourage promotion and acceptance of drug use.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2013\/01\/23\/marijuana-legalization_n_2535031.html\">Full story at the Huffington post&lt;&lt;&lt;&lt;&lt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Posted:\u00a001\/23\/2013 1:25 pm EST WASHINGTON &#8212; Recent state efforts to legalize marijuana pose a challenge for the Drug Enforcement Administration because they would increase marijuana&#8217;s availability and promote drug use, the DEA said in a filing released Wednesday. &#8220;Recently, efforts to legalize marijuana have increased. Keeping marijuana illegal reduces its availability and lessens willingness to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":486,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,35,6,7,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alaska-hemp","category-amerika","category-legalize","category-marijuana","category-medijuana","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/alaskahemp.com\/420\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/alaskahemp.com\/420\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/alaskahemp.com\/420\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alaskahemp.com\/420\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alaskahemp.com\/420\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=485"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/alaskahemp.com\/420\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":567,"href":"http:\/\/alaskahemp.com\/420\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485\/revisions\/567"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alaskahemp.com\/420\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/alaskahemp.com\/420\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alaskahemp.com\/420\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alaskahemp.com\/420\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}