{"id":583,"date":"2010-09-30T19:29:51","date_gmt":"2010-09-30T13:29:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/?p=583"},"modified":"2010-09-30T19:29:51","modified_gmt":"2010-09-30T13:29:51","slug":"timothy-egan-in-the-ny-times-on-legalizing-marijuana-or-california-dreamin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/2010\/09\/30\/timothy-egan-in-the-ny-times-on-legalizing-marijuana-or-california-dreamin\/","title":{"rendered":"Timothy Egan in the NY Times on Legalizing Marijuana, or &quot;California Dreamin&#039;&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After my post yesterday of the CNN editorial about the failed War on Drugs, I have to call out Timothy Egan&#8217;s excellent op-ed in this morning&#8217;s <em>NY Times<\/em>, under the witty headline &#8220;Reefer Gladness.&#8221; He even knows the person who&#8217;s the inspiration of the Coen Brother&#8217;s namesake Dude character in\u00a0<em>The Big Lebowski:<\/em><br \/>\n<iframe class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" title=\"Reefer Gladness\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/svc\/oembed\/html\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fopinionator.blogs.nytimes.com%2F2010%2F09%2F29%2Freefer-gladness%2F#?secret=JKfMJweHqw\" data-secret=\"JKfMJweHqw\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nAs readers of this blog will recognize, I rate Timothy Egan as one of our best nonfiction writers, and I&#8217;m hardly alone: <em>The Worst Hard Time<\/em> (2005) won the National Book Award for Nonfiction, and I&#8217;m still reading <em>The Big Burn<\/em> (2009), which seems just as good. He writes about the West, generally, but also puts those issues in a national context, makes them important for all of us.<br \/>\nI don&#8217;t pay much attention to California politics, but I&#8217;ll be interested to see how the vote on Prop 19 unfolds, election night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After my post yesterday of the CNN editorial about the failed War on Drugs, I have to call out Timothy Egan&#8217;s excellent op-ed in this morning&#8217;s NY Times, under the witty headline &#8220;Reefer Gladness.&#8221; He even knows the person who&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/2010\/09\/30\/timothy-egan-in-the-ny-times-on-legalizing-marijuana-or-california-dreamin\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,25,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-politics","category-the-west"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}