{"id":309,"date":"2014-02-24T03:23:48","date_gmt":"2014-02-24T03:23:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/community.knowledgegap.biz\/?p=309"},"modified":"2015-09-25T00:27:42","modified_gmt":"2015-09-25T00:27:42","slug":"social","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/community.odishagateway.org\/?p=309","title":{"rendered":"Social Issues"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Marijuana decriminalization &#8211; a perspective<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The push to legalize marijuana is very intense.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>India is one of many countries where marijuana is legalized. Many Odias living in North America may have first hand experience of socially using this. In not too distant past when alcoholic drinking was not socially acceptable, marijuana was in forms of delicious mixes. As a matter of fact there were some religious days (Pana Sankrati) on which it was a drink for celebration. In some temples it is a regular drink of choice by priests and public. In modern days both alcohol and marijuana drinks are legal. From this point of view we may have direct experience with both. Can we comment? <a title=\"Marijuana decrimilization\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/marijuanas-rising-acceptance-comes-after-many-failures-is-it-now-legalizations-time\/2014\/02\/22\/9adc8502-98dd-11e3-80ac-63a8ba7f7942_story.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read on<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">What is Marijuana?<\/span><\/p>\n<p>xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <a title=\"marijuana\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national\/health-science\/marijuana-frequently-asked-questions\/2014\/01\/02\/2b9bf6c0-73c4-11e3-8b3f-b1666705ca3b_story.html\">Read on<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">From the pen of a Heroin user<\/span><\/p>\n<p>An overdose almost killed me.\u00a0 But I could not make myself stop.\u00a0 <a title=\"Heroin addiction\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national\/health-science\/a-suburban-heroin-addict-describes-his-brush-with-death-and-his-hopes-for-a-better-life\/2014\/02\/07\/bd769b8e-8ea1-11e3-b46a-5a3d0d2130da_story.html\">Read on<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Pot-smoking parents: What about the kids? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/even-where-its-legal-for-parents-to-smoke-pot-what-about-the-kids\/2015\/06\/06\/dd4549c8-f977-11e4-9030-b4732caefe81_story.html\">Read on<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marijuana decriminalization &#8211; a perspective The push to legalize marijuana is very intense. India is one of many countries where marijuana is legalized. Many Odias living in North America may have first hand experience of socially using this. In not too distant past when alcoholic drinking was not socially acceptable, marijuana was in forms of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/community.odishagateway.org\/?p=309\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Social Issues<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[24],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.odishagateway.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.odishagateway.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.odishagateway.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.odishagateway.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.odishagateway.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=309"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/community.odishagateway.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":383,"href":"https:\/\/community.odishagateway.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309\/revisions\/383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.odishagateway.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.odishagateway.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.odishagateway.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}