{"id":99300,"date":"2014-10-15T20:55:18","date_gmt":"2014-10-16T03:55:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=99300"},"modified":"2014-10-15T20:55:18","modified_gmt":"2014-10-16T03:55:18","slug":"floridas-greatest-pot-smuggling-racecar-driver-just-got-out-of-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=99300","title":{"rendered":"Florida&#8217;s Greatest Pot-Smuggling Racecar Driver Just Got Out of Prison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">There are at least 15 people in United States federal prisons serving life sentences without the possibility of parole for nonviolent, marijuana-related offenses. Until quite recently, Randy Lanier was among them.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday morning, Lanier, a former pro racecar driver and pot smuggler, was set free in Coleman, Florida. In 1987, he was accused of smuggling a million pounds of marijuana into the US over the course of seven years, and a year later was sentenced to spend the rest of his days behind bars. But on September 15\u00a0\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vice.com\/read\/floridas-greatest-pot-smuggling-racecar-driver-randy-lanier-just-got-out-of-prison\" target=\"_blank\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\" target=\"_blank\">Stoked News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are at least 15 people in United States federal prisons serving life sentences without the possibility of parole for nonviolent, marijuana-related offenses. Until quite recently, Randy Lanier was among them. On Wednesday morning, Lanier, a former pro racecar driver and pot smuggler, was set free in Coleman, Florida. In 1987, he was accused of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66,7,21,11,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-auto-misc","category-automobile","category-formula-1-indy-cars","category-misc","category-sports-car"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=99300"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99301,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99300\/revisions\/99301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=99300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=99300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=99300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}