{"id":1961,"date":"2016-05-23T09:02:40","date_gmt":"2016-05-23T13:02:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/?p=1961"},"modified":"2016-05-23T09:02:40","modified_gmt":"2016-05-23T13:02:40","slug":"hail-to-the-choom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/?p=1961","title":{"rendered":"Hail To The Choom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/hailtothechoom\/hailtothechoom.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/hailtothechoom\/hailtothechoom600w.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"805\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In his high school days in Hawaii, Barack Obama hung out with a circle of friends nicknamed <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/blogs\/politics\/2012\/05\/obama-and-his-pot-smoking-choom-gang\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;the Choom Gang&#8221;<\/a> &#8212; &#8220;choom&#8221; being Hawaiian slang for smoking marijuana. Almost all the students in this group went on to be entirely productive and successful citizens &#8212; writers, lawyers, businessmen and, of course, President of the United States.<\/p>\n<p>This is by way of reminding everybody out there that cannabis is still listed by the DEA as &#8220;Schedule 1&#8221;, along with meth and heroin, and that Obama could start the descheduling process for marijuana himself instead of passing the buck to Congress. Obama himself is living proof that <a href=\"http:\/\/freepress.org\/article\/why-drug-war-has-been-forty-year-lynching-1\" target=\"_blank\">cannabis should be descheduled;<\/a> his legacy could only be improved by ending a program of persecution based entirely on the deceptions and racism of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2014\/01\/14\/marijuana-prohibition-racist_n_4590190.html\" target=\"_blank\">Harry Anslinger<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jamesvicktory\/status\/575098284764622848\" target=\"_blank\">Richard Nixon.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>11&#215;15 inch medium-res <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/hailtothechoom\/hailtothechoom.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">color .jpg image, <\/a>732kb<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In his high school days in Hawaii, Barack Obama hung out with a circle of friends nicknamed &#8220;the Choom Gang&#8221; &#8212; &#8220;choom&#8221; being Hawaiian slang for smoking marijuana. Almost all the students in this group went on to be entirely productive and successful citizens &#8212; writers, lawyers, businessmen and, of course, President of the United [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,20,5,158],"tags":[712,576,716,717,697,569,568,414,145],"class_list":["post-1961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy","category-health-care","category-liberty","category-obamarama","tag-anslinger","tag-cannabis","tag-choom","tag-choom-gang","tag-dea","tag-legalization","tag-marijuana","tag-nixon","tag-obama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1961"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1967,"href":"https:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1961\/revisions\/1967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}