{"id":8112,"date":"2017-09-25T14:39:21","date_gmt":"2017-09-25T12:39:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2017\/09\/25\/labour-conference-2017-russell-brand-calls-for-drugs-to-be-decriminalised-and-regulated-to-combat-addiction\/"},"modified":"2017-09-25T14:39:21","modified_gmt":"2017-09-25T12:39:21","slug":"labour-conference-2017-russell-brand-calls-for-drugs-to-be-decriminalised-and-regulated-to-combat-addiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=8112","title":{"rendered":"Labour conference 2017: Russell Brand calls for drugs to be decriminalised and regulated to combat addiction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&apos;We need regulation of drugs. As long as drugs are criminalised, you can&apos;t regulate them. As they continue to be criminalised they will &#8211; de facto &#8211; be stigmatised,&apos; the comedian said<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/uk\/politics\/labour-conference-2017-russell-brand-suggests-drugs-should-be-decriminalised-and-regulated-to-combat-a7965906.html\" target=\"_blank\">Labour conference 2017: Russell Brand calls for drugs to be decriminalised and regulated to combat addiction<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&apos;We need regulation of drugs. As long as drugs are criminalised, you can&apos;t regulate them. As they continue to be criminalised they will &#8211; de facto &#8211; be stigmatised,&apos; the comedian said Via: Labour conference 2017: Russell Brand calls for drugs to be decriminalised and regulated to combat addiction<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8112\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}