{"id":1737,"date":"2009-08-24T00:50:48","date_gmt":"2009-08-24T05:50:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=1737"},"modified":"2009-08-24T00:50:48","modified_gmt":"2009-08-24T05:50:48","slug":"repostmexico-repostlegalizes-drug-possession-nytimescom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2009\/08\/24\/repostmexico-repostlegalizes-drug-possession-nytimescom\/","title":{"rendered":"rePost:Mexico rePost:Legalizes Drug Possession &#8211; NYTimes.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Mexico\" rel=\"geolocation\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=19.05,-99.3666666667&amp;spn=10.0,10.0&amp;q=19.05,-99.3666666667%20%28Mexico%29&amp;t=h\">Mexico<\/a> Legalizes Drug Possession<br \/>\nBy THE ASSOCIATED PRESS<br \/>\nPublished: August 21, 2009<br \/>\nMEXICO CITY (<a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Associated Press\" rel=\"homepage\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ap.org\">AP<\/a>) \u2014 Mexico enacted a controversial law on Thursday decriminalizing possession of small amounts of marijuana, cocaine, heroin and other drugs while encouraging government-financed treatment for drug dependency free of charge.<br \/>\nThe law sets out maximum \u201cpersonal use\u201d amounts for drugs, also including <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Lysergic acid diethylamide\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lysergic_acid_diethylamide\">LSD<\/a> and methamphetamine. People detained with those quantities will no longer face criminal prosecution; the law goes into effect on Friday.<br \/>\nvia <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/08\/21\/world\/americas\/21mexico.html?_r=1\">Mexico Legalizes Drug Possession &#8211; NYTimes.com<\/a>.<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/08\/21\/world\/americas\/21mexico.html?_r=1<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Reblog this post [with Zemanta]\" href=\"http:\/\/reblog.zemanta.com\/zemified\/cc45299e-243b-4415-a6ed-e69bc3822977\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: medium none; float: right;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.zemanta.com\/reblog_e.png?w=525\" alt=\"Reblog this post [with Zemanta]\" \/><\/a><span class=\"zem-script more-related pretty-attribution\"><script src=\"http:\/\/static.zemanta.com\/readside\/loader.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mexico Legalizes Drug Possession By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Published: August 21, 2009 MEXICO CITY (AP) \u2014 Mexico enacted a controversial law on Thursday decriminalizing possession of small amounts of marijuana, cocaine, heroin and other drugs while encouraging government-financed treatment for drug dependency free of charge. The law sets out maximum \u201cpersonal use\u201d amounts for drugs, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2009\/08\/24\/repostmexico-repostlegalizes-drug-possession-nytimescom\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;rePost:Mexico rePost:Legalizes Drug Possession &#8211; NYTimes.com&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[442,463,530,668,860,929,957,988],"class_list":["post-1737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reposts","tag-digg","tag-drugs","tag-facebook","tag-health","tag-lysergic-acid-diethylamide","tag-mexico","tag-mixx","tag-myspace"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1737\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}