{"id":1953,"date":"2016-05-21T13:38:46","date_gmt":"2016-05-21T17:38:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/?p=1953"},"modified":"2016-05-21T13:43:20","modified_gmt":"2016-05-21T17:43:20","slug":"22-a-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/?p=1953","title":{"rendered":"22 A Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At last report, 22 veterans a day are committing suicide due to depression and other post-traumatic stress. Today, <a href=\"http:\/\/dcmj.org\" target=\"_blank\">DCMJ<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/wfwproject.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Weed For Warriors Project<\/a> threw a Smoke-In and Die-In at Lafayette Square in front of the White House. &#8220;Easier access does not equal EQUAL access&#8221; said WFW&#8217;s Brandon Wyatt, an Iraq War veteran and attorney who uses cannabis to heal his PTSD.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/167551813\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/167551813\">&quot;22 A Day&quot; Cannabis Protest for Vets, White House<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/flugennock\">Mike Flugennock<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/WhiteHouseMay2016fotos\/whitehouseMay2016-02.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/WhiteHouseMay2016fotos\/whitehouseMay2016-02_600w.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Just a reminder:<\/strong> While in high school in Hawaii, Barack Obama belonged to a &#8220;posse&#8221; nicknamed the <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/blogs\/politics\/2012\/05\/obama-and-his-pot-smoking-choom-gang\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Choom Gang&#8221;<\/a> &#8212; &#8220;choom&#8221; being Hawaiian slang for smoking weed. From all accounts, Obama was the most hardcore stoner of the bunch.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/WhiteHouseMay2016fotos\/whitehouseMay2016-04.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/WhiteHouseMay2016fotos\/whitehouseMay2016-04_600w.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dana_Beal\" target=\"_blank\">Dana Beal:<\/a><\/strong> Original <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Youth_International_Party\" target=\"_blank\">Yippie.<\/a> Original 1967 Smoke-In organizer. Cannabis activist. Legend. He spoke today about the history of Smoke-Ins, and why they&#8217;re a good thing, and why they work. <a href=\"http:\/\/norml.org\/about\/item\/r-keith-stroup-jd\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Keith Stroup<\/a> is wrong&#8221;, he declared.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/WhiteHouseMay2016fotos\/whitehouseMay2016-07.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/WhiteHouseMay2016fotos\/whitehouseMay2016-07_600w.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"188\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>The die-in lasted 22 minutes<\/strong> &#8212; one minute for every veteran who will commit suicide every day. Veterans make up 7% of the population, but account for 20% of suicides.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At last report, 22 veterans a day are committing suicide due to depression and other post-traumatic stress. Today, DCMJ and the Weed For Warriors Project threw a Smoke-In and Die-In at Lafayette Square in front of the White House. &#8220;Easier access does not equal EQUAL access&#8221; said WFW&#8217;s Brandon Wyatt, an Iraq War veteran and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,13,5,158,4],"tags":[281,576,569,568,713,145,714,715],"class_list":["post-1953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care","category-iraq","category-liberty","category-obamarama","category-smoke-ins","tag-white-house","tag-cannabis","tag-legalization","tag-marijuana","tag-medical","tag-obama","tag-ptsd","tag-veterans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1953"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1959,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1953\/revisions\/1959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}