{"id":205,"date":"2004-08-14T17:46:21","date_gmt":"2004-08-14T22:46:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=205"},"modified":"2005-01-14T00:48:18","modified_gmt":"2005-01-14T05:48:18","slug":"were_harold_and","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2004\/08\/14\/were_harold_and\/","title":{"rendered":"Were Harold and Kumar smoking desi doobage?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It seems that desis are a &#8220;model minority&#8221;, entrepreneurial in spirit, and drawn to excel in all spheres. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/articles\/A4162-2004Jul21.html\">Even criminal life<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<blockquote>\nIn the past 13 years, police have reported 76 young men killed in the Vancouver area in gang-related violence. The authorities blame drug deals gone bad and local turf wars, mostly involving well-to-do young people of Indian descent. <br><br> \n\nThe gangs deal mostly in marijuana, according to police, and specialize in a popular variety grown in the province called B.C. bud. &#8220;B.C. bud marijuana is highly sought after in the United States,&#8221; said constable Alex Borden of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.<br><br>\n\nIn Blaine, Wash., Joe Giuliano, assistant chief at the local U.S. Border Patrol office, said 23 Canadian smugglers have been arrested on the U.S. side of the border this year. &#8220;Virtually <i>all marijuana smuggling<\/i> in the past fiscal year is either directly or indirectly tied back to the Indo-Canadian community,&#8221; Giuliano said. \n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Somehow, I don&#8217;t think this is what was meant by <a href=\"http:\/\/meadev.nic.in\/Gandhi\/economics.htm\">swadeshi<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seems that desis are a &#8220;model minority&#8221;, entrepreneurial in spirit, and drawn to excel in all spheres. Even criminal life. In the past 13 years, police have reported 76 young men killed in the Vancouver area in gang-related violence. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2004\/08\/14\/were_harold_and\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}