{"id":5316,"date":"2009-11-11T22:47:41","date_gmt":"2009-11-11T22:47:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/?p=5316"},"modified":"2016-09-15T15:52:30","modified_gmt":"2016-09-15T15:52:30","slug":"drug-possession-decriminalized-in-mexico-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/2009\/11\/drug-possession-decriminalized-in-mexico-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Drug Possession Decriminalized in Mexico"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family:verdana;font-size:10pt\"><br \/>\nPossession and use of small amounts of marijuana, cocaine, heroin, LSD and amphetamines are no longer criminal offenses in Mexico, the A law that went into effect this week decriminalized minor drug possession, although individuals caught three times with drugs would be required to attend an addiction-treatment program.<br \/>\nMexican officials have said that the law would free police up to focus on combatting dealers and higher-level drug traffickers.<br \/>\n<em>Source:  Associated Press reported Aug. 21.2009<\/em><br \/>\n <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Possession and use of small amounts of marijuana, cocaine, heroin, LSD and amphetamines are no longer criminal offenses in Mexico, the A law that went into effect this week decriminalized minor drug possession, although individuals caught three times with drugs would be required to attend an addiction-treatment program. Mexican officials have said that the law [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-others"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5316\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}