{"id":293,"date":"2008-07-16T07:30:17","date_gmt":"2008-07-16T07:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/?p=293"},"modified":"2008-07-16T07:30:17","modified_gmt":"2008-07-16T07:30:17","slug":"this_is_absurd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/?p=293","title":{"rendered":"This is absurd."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nThe bit that really sticks out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/c\/a\/2008\/07\/16\/MNH311PMRE.DTL\">here<\/a>?  &#8220;Tobacco shops&#8221;.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nReally?\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<em>Really?<\/em>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nI&#8217;m sick of all this pussyfooting around.  If you want to ban smoking, grow some balls and <em>ban<\/em> it. Completely. Otherwise, F off and quit pissing me off with the whole &#8220;death by a thousand cuts:&#8221; routine.  If you don&#8217;t have the courage of your convictions, maybe you ought not be legislating.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAnd (insert enraged blasphemy here), quit trying to tell me that all this whining about burning particulate matter in the respiratory system doesn&#8217;t count for marijuana because it&#8217;s a wonderful magical organic plant that is nothing but good for you.  Tiny burnt bits in the lungs is pretty much one and the same as far as I can tell, whether it&#8217;s a fine Bahia Gold Maduro, a stack of newspapers, or some of Dumpster Muffin&#8217;s beloved Oaxaca ditch-weed.  (PJ O&#8217;Rourke gets a nickel.)  I trust that the crackdown on cigar shops will quickly be followed with action against all these medicinal marijuana &#8220;clinics&#8221; that aren&#8217;t providing THC intravenously.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nActually, come to think of it, I <em>would<\/em> favor allowing medicinal marijuana in unlimited quantities&#8230;on the condition that it only be provided as a suppository.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The bit that really sticks out here? &#8220;Tobacco shops&#8221;. Really? Really? I&#8217;m sick of all this pussyfooting around. If you want to ban smoking, grow some balls and ban it. Completely. Otherwise, F off and quit pissing me off with the whole &#8220;death by a thousand cuts:&#8221; routine. If you don&#8217;t have the courage of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/?p=293\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;This is absurd.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}