{"id":772,"date":"2009-09-20T22:32:16","date_gmt":"2009-09-20T17:32:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bridgetothestars.net\/news\/pullman-legalise-drugs\/"},"modified":"2009-09-20T22:32:16","modified_gmt":"2009-09-20T17:32:16","slug":"pullman-legalise-drugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/pullman-legalise-drugs\/","title":{"rendered":"Pullman: legalise drugs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Philip Pullman commented in an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/commentisfree\/2009\/sep\/20\/drugs-britain-opinion-debate\">opinion piece on the legalisation of drugs<\/a> in The Observer today, saying &#8220;Should drugs be legalised? Of course, and as soon as possible. &#8230; Legalising drugs would have three huge and immediate benefits: it would cut the link between drugs and crime, and empty the prisons; it would ensure that supplies were pure and reliable and not cut with chalk or worse; and it would provide a vast new source of tax for the Treasury.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Philip Pullman commented in an opinion piece on the legalisation of drugs in The Observer today, saying &#8220;Should drugs be legalised? Of course, and as soon as possible. &#8230; Legalising drugs would have three huge and immediate benefits: it would &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/pullman-legalise-drugs\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interviews","category-philip-pullman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}