{"id":16869,"date":"2018-09-30T14:23:07","date_gmt":"2018-09-30T14:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=16869"},"modified":"2018-09-30T14:23:07","modified_gmt":"2018-09-30T14:23:07","slug":"south-africans-highly-divided-over-relaxed-cannabis-laws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=16869","title":{"rendered":"South Africans highly divided over relaxed cannabis laws"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"body-170301071804049\" readability=\"64\">\n<p>South Africa&#8217;s Rastafarian community says a court ruling on cannabis is a victory for their cultural rights.<\/p>\n<p>The nation&#8217;s top court says adults are allowed to grow and smoke it in private.<\/p>\n<p>But experts say the new rules may be difficult to police.<\/p>\n<p>Al Jazeera&#8217;s Fahmida Miller reports from Cape Town.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa&#8217;s Rastafarian community says a court ruling on cannabis is a victory for their cultural rights. The nation&#8217;s top court says adults are allowed to grow and smoke it in private. But experts say the new rules may be difficult to police. Al Jazeera&#8217;s Fahmida Miller reports from Cape Town.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":16870,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16869\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}