{"id":31,"date":"2006-01-18T14:01:57","date_gmt":"2006-01-18T19:01:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2006\/01\/18\/my-pot-ruling-bash\/"},"modified":"2006-01-18T14:58:22","modified_gmt":"2006-01-18T19:58:22","slug":"my-pot-ruling-bash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2006\/01\/18\/my-pot-ruling-bash\/","title":{"rendered":"My Pot Ruling Bash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Future of Freedom Foundation posted my<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fff.org\/freedom\/fd0510c.asp\"><strong> article<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0on the Supreme Court ruling on medical marijuana.<\/p>\n<p>The articles begins &#8211;<\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Times\">Earlier this year [2005], the Supreme Court, acting again like a gang that smoked too much bad weed, ruled that the federal government has the right to prohibit people from growing marijuana for medicinal purposes. 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