{"id":143435,"date":"2015-02-09T15:06:03","date_gmt":"2015-02-09T15:06:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=143435"},"modified":"2015-02-09T15:06:03","modified_gmt":"2015-02-09T15:06:03","slug":"everything-know-drug-war-addiction-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/latest-news\/everything-know-drug-war-addiction-wrong\/","title":{"rendered":"Everything We Know About the Drug War and Addiction Is Wrong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As President Obama seeks $27.6 billion for federal drug control programs in his new budget, we talk to British journalist Johann Hari about the century-old failed drug war and how much of what we know about addiction is wrong. Over the past four years Hari has traveled to the United States, Mexico, Canada, Uruguay and Portugal to research his new book, &#8220;Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War of Drugs.&#8221; His findings may surprise you \u2013 from the U.S. government\u2019s persecution of Billie Holiday, to Vancouver\u2019s success in addressing its heroin epidemic, to Portugal\u2019s experiment with full decriminalization of all drugs.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 640px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('video');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-143435-1\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"http:\/\/publish.dvlabs.com\/democracynow\/ipod\/dn2015-0204.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/publish.dvlabs.com\/democracynow\/ipod\/dn2015-0204.mp4\">http:\/\/publish.dvlabs.com\/democracynow\/ipod\/dn2015-0204.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As President Obama seeks $27.6 billion for federal drug control programs in his new budget, we talk to British journalist Johann Hari about the century-old failed drug war and how much of what we know about addiction is wrong. Over the past four years Hari has traveled to the United States, Mexico, Canada, Uruguay and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519,18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-143435","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire","7":"category-latest-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143435\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}