{"id":14788,"date":"2015-02-24T12:52:46","date_gmt":"2015-02-24T20:52:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=14788"},"modified":"2015-02-24T12:52:46","modified_gmt":"2015-02-24T20:52:46","slug":"maher-on-pot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2015\/02\/24\/maher-on-pot\/","title":{"rendered":"Maher on Pot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Was he on pot?&#160; He said so, but that may have been a joke.&#160; In any case, here he is at his funny best.&#160; He makes some excellent points and skewers Strike Three beautifully!<\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Maher\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-left: auto; display: block; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; margin-right: auto\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Maher\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Maher.jpg\" width=\"506\" height=\"316\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In case you didn&#8217;t know, Bill Maher thinks it&#8217;s time marijuana had its day in the sun.<\/p>\n<p>The comedian <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=IlRgQ0YK24I\" target=\"_blank\">addressed the discriminatory nature<\/a> of current U.S. weed laws on &quot;Real Time With Bill Maher&quot; on Friday night. While this time he didn&#8217;t have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2010\/10\/30\/zach-galifianakis-smokes-_n_776497.html\" target=\"_blank\">Zach Galifianakis on hand to light up a joint<\/a>, he had plenty to say about the broken system.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;We should at least be honest with our kids and tell them the truth about drug laws in this country,&quot; he said. &quot;Kids, if you&#8217;re gonna experiment, make absolutely certain that beforehand your parents are white and well-connected.&quot;\u2026<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Inserted from &lt;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/drugs\/bill-maher-marijuana-legalization-real-time\" target=\"_blank\">Alternet<\/a>&gt;<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/IlRgQ0YK24I?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Did Bill nail Strike Three or what?<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Seriously, Bill right. People in prison for pot should be let go. One of my guys, who has since served his time and gone home, had a couple acres under cultivation on his harm. He wanted some aerial pics of his farm near the Oregon coast, so he hired the county fair helicopter to fly over the place. He did not know that the chopper pilot was also a pot spotter for the police. He used to say he was doing time for Stupidity I. For several years this guy filled a bed that could have been made available for someone dangerous.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Was he on pot?&#160; He said so, but that may have been a joke.&#160; In any case, here he is at his funny best.&#160; He makes some excellent points and skewers Strike Three beautifully! In case you didn&#8217;t know, Bill Maher thinks it&#8217;s time marijuana had its day in the sun. The comedian addressed the <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2015\/02\/24\/maher-on-pot\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14788\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}