{"id":40973,"date":"2015-10-26T08:00:15","date_gmt":"2015-10-26T12:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.owu.edu\/daily\/?p=40973"},"modified":"2015-10-26T08:00:15","modified_gmt":"2015-10-26T12:00:15","slug":"a-war-on-drugs-or-decriminalize-drugs-on-oct-26-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/dailymonster\/a-war-on-drugs-or-decriminalize-drugs-on-oct-26-2\/","title":{"rendered":"A War On Drugs Or Decriminalize Drugs? on Oct. 26"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Theory-to-Practice Presentation.<\/p>\n<p>The US leads the world in illicit drug use, accompanied by significant levels of drug addiction &amp; its disastrous impacts on families &amp; communities. The US approach to the problem has been to wage a \u201cwar on drugs\u201d by focusing on incarceration to discourage drug use &amp; maintain social order. This policy has led to the highest incarceration rate in the world. Yet, addiction rates &amp; distribution have been largely unaffected. Economic costs of imprisonment have soared.<\/p>\n<p>Join our presentation &amp; discussion about what we can learn from Portugal\u2019s experiment with drug decriminalization. FREE PIZZA!<\/p>\n<p>Start Time: <span class=\"aBn\"><span class=\"aQJ\">12:00 p.m.<\/span><\/span>, Oct. 26, 2015.<br \/>\nEnd Time: <span class=\"aBn\"><span class=\"aQJ\">1:00 p.m.<\/span><\/span>, Oct. 26, 2015.<br \/>\nLocation: Leon A. Beeghly Library, Bayley Room.<\/p>\n<p>OWU Sponsoring Organization\/Office: OWU Connections Program.<br \/>\nContact: Paul Dean at <a href=\"mailto:psdean@owu.edu\" target=\"_blank\">psdean@owu.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Theory-to-Practice Presentation. The US leads the world in illicit drug use, accompanied by significant levels of drug addiction &amp; its disastrous impacts on families &amp; communities. The US approach to the problem has been to wage a \u201cwar on drugs\u201d by focusing on incarceration to discourage drug use &amp; maintain social order. This policy has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2057,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campuswide-news-events"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":6}},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/dailymonster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/dailymonster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/dailymonster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/dailymonster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2057"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/dailymonster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/dailymonster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40973\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/dailymonster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/dailymonster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/dailymonster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}