22 Jan 2014

The Dumbest Thing Ever Said About Weed

The Young Turks: "On Tuesday, Nancy Grace claimed that people on marijuana shoot, stab and strangle each other, and that children shouldn't bear witness to their parents drinking soda...".* Cenk Uygur and John Iadarola (host of TYT University and Common Room) break it down.


LiberalViewer: Fox News prefers alcohol to marijuana?
200 Fox News bias videos at http://bit.ly/M9wuQX
More marijuana related videos at http://bit.ly/XCFjc3

The day after Jon Stewart skewered the news media for having an alarmist attitude about marijuana but a lax attitude toward alcohol, Fox News' "The Real Story with Gretchen Carlson" broadcast a panel discussion on the dangerousness of pot vs alcohol that pretty much confirmed the criticism on "The Daily Show" the night before, as I show in this video.

The clips I use of Jon Stewart criticizing Gretchen Carlson and Steve Doocy come from a longer segment of the January 7, 2014, broadcast of "The Daily Show" available online at http://bit.ly/1cXhlwg

The clips I use of Fox News anchor Gretchen Carlson, real housewife Jill Zarin, media analyst Lauren Ashburn, and OB/GYN Dr. Tara Allmen come from a longer segment of Fox News' January 8, 2014, broadcast of "The Real Story with Gretchen Carlson" available online at http://fxn.ws/1kvNeWO

The image I use of my 2009 video "Fox News Gets Reefer Madness Over So-Called Killer Marijuana" comes from the YouTube player page at http://bit.ly/1izhwU5

The images I use of the Center for Disease Control statistics on alcohol attributable deaths from 2006-2010 are available starting from the CDC page at http://1.usa.gov/1m0vaPW

The image I use of Laci Green narrating the August 2013 DNews video "Pot Is Not A Gateway Drug!" comes from the YouTube player page at http://bit.ly/1c6XmLs

The image I use of the RAND corporation research brief titled "Using Marijuana May Not Raise the Risk of Using Harder Drugs" comes from the webpage at http://bit.ly/1cQayb2

The image I use of the August 2012 Journal of School Health study abstract titled "Alcohol as a gateway drug: a study of US 12th graders" comes from the PubMed page at http://1.usa.gov/1dGqASv

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