{"id":1198,"date":"2003-05-18T19:51:25","date_gmt":"2003-05-19T09:51:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/05\/19\/howard-dean-interview\/"},"modified":"2019-12-06T08:39:24","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T16:39:24","slug":"howard-dean-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/05\/18\/howard-dean-interview\/","title":{"rendered":"Howard Dean interview"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:14650,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.liberaloasis.com\\\/dean.htm&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.liberaloasis.com&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:14651,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.calpundit.com\\\/archives\\\/001274.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20050510171032\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.calpundit.com:80\\\/archives\\\/001274.html&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-13 01:25:53&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-13 01:25:53&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>There&#8217;s a good <a href=\"http:\/\/www.liberaloasis.com\/dean.htm\" title=\"Interview with Howard Dean\">interview with Howard Dean<\/a> over at LiberalOasis. Dean continues to talk a very good line &#8212; I only hope that if elected, he follows through. So far, I&#8217;ve yet to see anything to convince me he wouldn&#8217;t, but it&#8217;s quite hard to tell at this point.<\/p>\n<p>While I quite honestly didn&#8217;t realize that this was much of an issue right now, I liked his response to a question about the legalization of medical marijuana:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  <strong>LO: In Vermont, you opposed a bill that would have given terminally ill patients access to medicinal marijuana.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>  <strong>What was your rationale? As President, would you direct the FDA to objectively address this issue?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>  HD: My opposition to medical marijuana is based on science, not based on ideology.<\/p>\n<p>  More specifically, I don&#8217;t think we should single out a particular drug for approval through political means when we approve other drugs through scientific means.<\/p>\n<p>  When I&#8217;m President, I will require the FDA to evaluate marijuana with a double blind study with the same kinds of scientific protocols that every other drug goes through.<\/p>\n<p>  I&#8217;m certainly willing to abide by what the FDA says.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calpundit.com\/archives\/001274.html\" title=\"An interview with Howard Dean\">Kevin Drum<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a good interview with Howard Dean over at LiberalOasis. Dean continues to talk a very good line &mdash; I only hope that if elected, he follows through. So far, I&#8217;ve yet to see anything to convince me he wouldn&#8217;t, but it&#8217;s quite hard to tell at this point.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2042],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-1198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1198\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}