{"id":14994,"date":"2021-11-13T21:26:44","date_gmt":"2021-11-14T02:26:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=14994"},"modified":"2021-11-13T21:26:44","modified_gmt":"2021-11-14T02:26:44","slug":"to-fight-the-opioid-crisis-we-must-decriminalize-drugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=14994","title":{"rendered":"To fight the opioid crisis, we must decriminalize drugs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The pressure to decriminalize possession of drugs for personal use has gained unstoppable momentum. It includes a letter signed by 70 prominent organizations, a lawsuit launching a Charter challenge, and the reports of a task force of experts appointed by the Liberal government. These three developments in the last weeks alone join a chorus of [\u2026]\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/ipolitics.ca\/2021\/11\/11\/to-fight-the-opioid-crisis-we-must-decriminalize-drugs\/\">To fight the opioid crisis, we must decriminalize drugs<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The pressure to decriminalize possession of drugs for personal use has gained&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[84,569,4,27],"class_list":["post-14994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-canada","tag-drug-law","tag-drugwar","tag-drugs","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14994\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}