{"id":2661,"date":"2003-04-13T09:15:13","date_gmt":"2003-04-13T09:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/?p=2661"},"modified":"2003-04-13T09:15:13","modified_gmt":"2003-04-13T09:15:13","slug":"crappy_laws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/?p=2661","title":{"rendered":"Crappy Laws"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been meaning to post about this for a few days, but haven&#8217;t gotten around to it.  <a href=\"http:\/\/coolstop.com\/radio\/2003\/04\/12.shtml#a2684\">jennett.radio<\/a> has a link to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dnalounge.com\/backstage\/log\/2003\/04.html#11\">a post by Jamie Zawinski of the DNA Lounge in San Francisco<\/a>.  It concerns the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.emdef.org\/s226\/\">RAVE act<\/a> and how it was slipped into the legislation for the &#8220;AMBER Alert bill&#8221;. At least they seem to have taken out the wording that refered to bottled water and glowsticks as Drug Paraphernalia.  Jamie goes on to say:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p> So look, if any of you jackasses were planning on trying to sneak The Drugs into my club, could you please show a little consideration and just fucking not? I couldn&#8217;t care less what you do with your life, but I have no desire to go to jail because you can&#8217;t leave your habit at home. Might I recommend something in a vodka instead? That won&#8217;t get us busted, and (bonus!) causes our employees to get paid.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>One of the things about this that annoys me the most is how the bill got passed.  What is this doing in the middle of a bill about child abduction that has absolutely nothing to do with drug policy.  Yes, I know it&#8217;s a silly question because it is a fairly common thing to do stuff like this, but it still sucks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been meaning to post about this for a few days, but haven&#8217;t gotten around to it. jennett.radio has a link to a post by Jamie Zawinski of the DNA Lounge in San Francisco. It concerns the RAVE act and how it was slipped into the legislation for the &#8220;AMBER Alert bill&#8221;. At least they [&hellip;]<\/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-2661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2661\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}