{"id":92,"date":"2011-05-06T16:06:41","date_gmt":"2011-05-06T20:06:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.bmbs.org\/?p=92"},"modified":"2011-06-28T16:08:18","modified_gmt":"2011-06-28T20:08:18","slug":"ron-paul-legalize-heroin-and-prostitution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bmbs.org\/?p=92","title":{"rendered":"Ron Paul: Legalize Heroin and Prostitution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Luke Broadwater in the Baltimore Sun:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>At the first GOP debate tonight in Greenville, S.C., Republican presidential candidate and U.S. Congressman Ron Paul made the case for legalizing drugs, even heroin.<\/p>\n<p>In an exchange with Fox News&#8217; Chris Wallace, Paul made the point that people should have the freedom to do things to themselves that might seem crazy to others.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You have a right to do things that are very controversial,&#8221; Paul said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Are you suggesting that heroin and prostitution are an exercise of liberty?&#8221; Wallace countered.<\/p>\n<p>At this, Paul turned his attention to the audience, which loudly cheered most comments he made, despite orders from the moderators not to do so.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;How many people here would use heroin if it were legal?&#8221; Paul asked. &#8220;I bet nobody would.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Then Paul invoked a voice of sarcasm.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Oh yeah, I need the government to take care of me,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I don&#8217;t want to use heroin, so I need these laws.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>At that, the crowd burst into applause.<\/p>\n<p>Even Wallace had to laugh.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Who thought heroin would get applause here in South Carolina?&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Luke Broadwater in the Baltimore Sun: At the first GOP debate tonight in Greenville, S.C., Republican presidential candidate and U.S. Congressman Ron Paul made the case for legalizing drugs, even heroin. In an exchange with Fox News&#8217; Chris Wallace, Paul &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.bmbs.org\/?p=92\">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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bmbs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bmbs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bmbs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bmbs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bmbs.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=92"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bmbs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bmbs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions\/93"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bmbs.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=92"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bmbs.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=92"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bmbs.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=92"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}