{"id":1222,"date":"2018-03-24T11:39:33","date_gmt":"2018-03-24T15:39:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=1222"},"modified":"2018-03-24T11:39:33","modified_gmt":"2018-03-24T15:39:33","slug":"shortchanged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=1222","title":{"rendered":"Shortchanged"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mister Sessions, I don&#8217;t deal in heroin or blow.<br \/>\nI don&#8217;t deal in oxycontin, either.<br \/>\nBut now, for legal weed, you want to put me on death row.<br \/>\nRelax, chill out, AG, you need a breather.<br \/>\nI thought the rules had changed regarding marijuana&#8217;s sale,<\/p>\n<p>the benefits realized in legal smoking.<br \/>\nBut now you want to turn around and put me into jail,<br \/>\nand sentence me to death, you must be joking?<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s not like legal smokers want to take away your gun.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s not like they&#8217;ll go wild and eat your babies.<br \/>\nThey want to get high sometimes and just have a little fun.<br \/>\nBut now you&#8217;re treating them like they have rabies.<br \/>\nPerhaps you are reacting to the old phrase &quot;killer weed.&quot;<br \/>\nYou realize that&#8217;s not what it really means.<br \/>\nYou don&#8217;t have problems giving the real killers what they need.<br \/>\nLike wartime ammo and AK15&#8217;s.<br \/>\nSo, back off, little brother, maybe you just need a smoke.<br \/>\nA little reefer might expand your thinking.<br \/>\nGo ask all your joint chiefs if they&#8217;ll let you have a toke.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s better for your health than bourbon drinking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mister Sessions, I don&#8217;t deal in heroin or blow. I don&#8217;t deal in oxycontin, either. But now, for legal weed, you want to put me on death row. Relax, chill out, AG, you need a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=1222\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[3,4],"class_list":["post-1222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poem-2","tag-poem","tag-poetry-2"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":511,"url":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=511","url_meta":{"origin":1222,"position":0},"title":"Medicinal Weed","author":"Rick Young","date":"January 1, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Put me on a government list. Gotta get me some of this. I got problems medical. 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