{"id":38947,"date":"2014-02-03T12:00:42","date_gmt":"2014-02-03T12:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=38947"},"modified":"2015-05-05T22:11:09","modified_gmt":"2015-05-05T21:11:09","slug":"fox-obama-to-force-all-americans-to-buy-pot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2014\/02\/fox-obama-to-force-all-americans-to-buy-pot\/","title":{"rendered":"FOX: Obama to Force All Americans to Buy Pot"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_38948\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/obama-pot.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-38948\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-38948\" alt=\"Photograph by Jim Watson\/AFP\/Getty.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/obama-pot-300x198.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/obama-pot-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/obama-pot.jpg 580w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-38948\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photograph by Jim Watson\/AFP\/Getty.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>President Obama is about to issue an executive order that would force all Americans to purchase a monthly supply of marijuana, the Fox News Channel reported today.<\/p>\n<p>According to Fox\u2019s Sean Hannity, who broke the story, Obama\u2019s initiative is part of a broader plan to make weed available and affordable to every individual in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Under Obama\u2019s plan, every American would be required to purchase a government-mandated amount of marijuana per month or face a penalty of up to two thousand dollars.<\/p>\n<p>Hannity said that the President hopes to have the mandatory marijuana plan up and running by 2015, \u201cbut they\u2019re still working on the Web site.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Appearing on Fox, House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) took issue with Obama\u2019s recent remark that marijuana was no more dangerous than alcohol: \u201cI saw that as an insult.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>___________________________<\/p>\n<p><i>Andy Borowitz is a New York Times best-selling author and a comedian who has written for The New Yorker since 1998. In 2001, he created the Borowitz Report, a satirical news column that has millions of readers around the world, for which he won the first-ever National Press Club award for humor. The Borowitz Report was acquired by The New Yorker in 2012.<\/i><i><\/i><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/online\/blogs\/borowitzreport\/2014\/01\/fox-obama-to-force-all-americans-to-buy-pot.html\" >Go to Original \u2013 newyorker.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Obama is about to issue an executive order that would force all Americans to purchase a monthly supply of marijuana, the Fox News Channel reported today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[213],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food-for-thought"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38947\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}