{"id":183,"date":"2004-01-19T08:40:55","date_gmt":"2004-01-19T08:40:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.simonjnugent.com\/wordpress\/?p=183"},"modified":"2005-04-17T08:56:56","modified_gmt":"2005-04-17T07:56:56","slug":"simon-55","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.simonjnugent.com\/?p=183","title":{"rendered":"War on drugs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A study at Loughborough University has found that the most effective &#8220;war on drugs&#8221; was carried out by the Taliban in Afghanistan.  They managed to cut the worldwide heroin supply by 65% in 2001.  (See <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/world\/south_asia\/3408353.stm\">BBC article<\/a>).    What should we think when, less than a year later, the US invaded Afghanistan and ousted the Taliban sending the production of heroin right back up again?    Here&#8217;s a man who has some ideas:  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fromthewilderness.com\/free\/ciadrugs\/bush-cheney-drugs.html\"> http:\/\/www.fromthewilderness.com\/free\/ciadrugs\/bush-cheney-drugs.html<\/a>  (Interestingly this was written before the war in Afghanistan).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A study at Loughborough University has found that the most effective &#8220;war on drugs&#8221; was carried out by the Taliban in Afghanistan. They managed to cut the worldwide heroin supply by 65% in 2001. (See BBC article). What should we&#8230; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.simonjnugent.com\/?p=183\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simonjnugent.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simonjnugent.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simonjnugent.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simonjnugent.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simonjnugent.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.simonjnugent.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simonjnugent.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simonjnugent.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simonjnugent.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}