Fox News Marijuana Straw Man on Legalization?
125+ MORE examples of Fox News Bias at www.youtube.com With a kind of marijuana legalization on the ballot in California as Proposition 19 this November, it’s not surprising to see our friends at Fox picking up the pace on the marijuana misinformation in a series called “Going to Pot” that included a segment rebutting a straw man argument for marijuana legalization with a very weak anti-legalization argument and went on to spread a series of anti-marijuana myths while purporting to debunk pro-legalization “myths” as I show in this video. The clips I use of Fox News anchor Brian Kilmeade interviewing Bishop Ron Allen come from a segment on the Fox News program “Fox and Friends” broadcast on August 28, 2010, which is available online at www.youtube.com The image I use of my July 2007 video titled “Fox News Gets Reefer Madness Over So-Called Killer Marijuana” comes from the YouTube player page at www.youtube.com The images I use of “Yes on 19” information on California marijuana arrests come from the webpage at yeson19.com The charts I use of showing racial discrimination in California marijuana arrests come from the Drug Policy Alliance webpage at www.drugpolicy.org And, finally, the fact sheet I show debunking marijuana myths about being overly potent and a “gateway drug” comes from the Drug Policy Alliance webpage at drugpolicy.org
The round up statistics of those ho use weed show that 1 in 103 will go on to something harder, but all of those 103 people will have tried drugs like alcohol and tobacco first.
PS i don’t use or abuse weed, but i do use alcohol and tobacco.
@AForkSpoon your 100 percent right
here is the situation on gateway drug. It’s not. Weed is illigal, many people will do weed because they are stupid and don’t know what it will do and the harms. lets say 60 out of 100 users are like this. the other 40 users do tried it because they knew it really wasnt that bad for them. those 60 people that did it ignorantly are the ones going and doing crack. my point is that weed is not the cause for use of other drugs, weed is just easier for those “stupid” ones to get ahold of first.
@MrCinCity1 i will not do any other drug because the other drugs are bad for you, pot is not that bad like many say. gateway drug? thats bullshit, just because a stupid person is more likley to try marajuana does not make it a gateway drug because that same stupid person is going to go off and do crack.
@TazeMEbroseph air is a gateway drug, i tried air before i tried advil.
People who can’t handle their drugs are too often the ones who determine public policy. Why take the advice of a former crackhead? Not everyone is a compulsive, wild-eyed drug-gobbling fiend like this fake “bishop.”
sorry for the double post, but “disportionate”? and then bringing race into the equation? I smoke marijuana and never plan on trying meth or crack.
what it sounds like ‘bishop’ was saying, you can smoke pot and all that and be fine. but if you grow and sell only then you can go to jail? then why do I have to look over my shoulder when I smoke? I know a few people who have gotten arrested for simple possession.
Former drug addict?
Thats not a title to get on a news shows.
Your telling me if I go smoke crack I am eligible for a spot on FOX news?
@TazeMEbroseph Milk is a gateway drug, I tried milk before i tried juice, I tried soda before I tried alcohol
fast food is bad for you… so why dont they make it illegal
people are stupid marijuana is NOT a gateway “drug” or and addictive “drug”
100.000 people die for alcohol use and 450,000 people die for tobacco use and 0 deaths from cannabis WTF People and that myth that marijuana kills brain cells is also NOT true… wake up people!!
Gateway drug? I’m sorry but i’ve had many drugs displayed right on my very eyes and i’ve never accepted them. My loyalty stays with Mary Jane. There’s not a component on Marijuana that makes you go out and buy crack. Maybe if that bishop had done weed instead of crack he wouldn’t be babbling nonsense on the news.
@HRRyan2 Is banning life the only solution?
Being alive is a gateway drug. I was alive before I tried smoking weed.
@TazeMEbroseph .. HAHA hey man at least it was a gateway to a harmless drug!
@TheEpicRofler that is actually true, especially in canada where some people are given weed, and other drugs but in smaller amounts to help ween off
wow, i wouldnt have expected that from fox news… im a Republican but i think pot should be legalized. Its people like the bishop who are going to tear the country down…
i think the blacc guy is a robot
people are smokin marihuana in all world “0” deads , war against ilegal marihuana only in mexico since 2006 to present day “22,700”: the only solution to drogs is legalize and stop killing people
these uncle toms have GOT to go.
@TazeMEbroseph you know, they say weed is the opposite of a gateway drug, that people coming off of crack or heroin use marijuana to cope….
Boring
Where does faux find these guys? This guy might not even be a priest, and he talks like he is still using heavy drugs(not pot). Faux claims that MJ is a gateway drug, but it that case what would alcohol or tobacco be? I think you should have provided the factual evidence on how many non violent drug arrests and convictions there have been and how many are housed in ALL jails and what that percentage is overall, for a better presentation. Either way you got them again, i love it
hes right the thc is to high, i took a hit while standing up and blacked out, and when i came to i just started laughing, hahaha i love weed
The Bishop looks like an uptight, conservative, Jimmie “J.J.” Walker. “DYNOMITE!”