{"id":20574,"date":"2011-01-20T21:49:33","date_gmt":"2011-01-21T01:49:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/miserybay.usanethosting.com\/wordpress\/?p=20574"},"modified":"2011-01-20T21:49:33","modified_gmt":"2011-01-21T01:49:33","slug":"back-99","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/back-99\/","title":{"rendered":"A Look Back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/miserybay.usanethosting.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/gallery\/11jan\/backmjth.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"image\" class=\"aligncenter size-full\" \/>Marijuana becomes illegal<!--more--><br \/>\nIn 1937 the federal government passed a law making it illegal to use or grow Marijuana. The history of why that law was passed has raised many unanswered questions. It came only a few years after Prohibition was repealed.<br \/>\nToday as states try to buck the system and make medical marijuana legal, there are still roadblocks. Even though voters in Michigan passed the law two years ago, the government is still debating how to police and distribute the drug which has been legal for most of man&#8217;s time on this earth.<br \/>\nBelow from left to right: Clinton County Undersheriff Percy Patterson, Clinton County Sheriff John (Jack) Barnes and an unidentified man.<br \/>\nThey are digging up Marijuana plants at an unnamed site.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/miserybay.usanethosting.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/gallery\/11jan\/backmj1.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"image\" class=\"aligncenter size-full\" \/><br \/>\nSheriff Barnes and Undersheriff Percy Patterson pose with the marijuana plants they just dug up.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/miserybay.usanethosting.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/gallery\/11jan\/backmj2.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"image\" class=\"aligncenter size-full\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marijuana becomes illegal<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lookback"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20574\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}