{"id":4353,"date":"2011-01-29T12:00:45","date_gmt":"2011-01-29T20:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/?p=4353"},"modified":"2011-11-08T22:43:38","modified_gmt":"2011-11-09T06:43:38","slug":"the-incredible-cost-of-the-war-on-drugs-operation-pipe-dreams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2011\/01\/the-incredible-cost-of-the-war-on-drugs-operation-pipe-dreams\/","title":{"rendered":"The Incredible Cost of the War On Drugs: Operation Pipe Dreams"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pf-content\"><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/war-on-drugs-operation-pipe.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4354\" title=\"war-on-drugs-operation-pipe\" src=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/war-on-drugs-operation-pipe.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"558\" height=\"397\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/war-on-drugs-operation-pipe.jpg 558w, https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/war-on-drugs-operation-pipe-340x242.jpg 340w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 558px) 100vw, 558px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>##EMBED##<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Where the Term Pipe Dream Comes From\" href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2010\/08\/the-origin-of-the-phrase-pipe-dream\/\" target=\"_self\">Click Here for Sources and to Learn About Where the Term &#8220;Pipe Dream&#8221; Comes From<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Text Version<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cOperation Pipe Dreams\u201d was a 2003 nationwide United States investigation which targeted business selling drug paraphernalia.\u00a0 In the end, hundreds of businesses and homes were raided nationwide.\u00a0 Fifty-five people were charged with trafficking of illegal drug paraphernalia and eventually fined and generally given home detentions.\u00a0\u00a0 The estimated cost of the operation was around twelve million dollars or about $220,000 per person charged and about 2,000 officers involved or about 36 officers per charge.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>##EMBED## Click Here for Sources and to Learn About Where the Term &#8220;Pipe Dream&#8221; Comes From Text Version \u201cOperation Pipe Dreams\u201d was a 2003 nationwide United States investigation which targeted business selling drug paraphernalia.\u00a0 In the end, hundreds of businesses and homes were raided nationwide.\u00a0 Fifty-five people were charged with trafficking of illegal drug paraphernalia and eventually fined and generally [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4354,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[689],"tags":[1237,1238],"class_list":["post-4353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-quick-facts","tag-operation-pipe-dreams","tag-war-on-drugs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4353"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7066,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4353\/revisions\/7066"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}