John Stossel & Bill O'Reilly Debate Drug Legalization
Posted in Chronicle Blog by Scott Morgan on Wed, 10/21/2009 - 8:54pm
All it takes is a few words from Stossel to send O'Reilly (who's been known to vaguely support medical marijuana) into a rambling tailspin about how legalizing medical marijuana causes heroin addicts to sell it to children. Yeah, that's pretty much what we've learned to expect from him, but as much as O'Reilly makes me sick, I think he epitomizes the sort of pure drug war lunacy that's done so much to alienate the public.
Apparently, the producers at FOX see it too, which would help to explain why they've brought Stossel in on the conversation.
Stossel just took a job over at FOX News and if that means we'll be seeing more of this, I'm all for it (the good stuff starts at 2:25):
All it takes is a few words from Stossel to send O'Reilly (who's been known to vaguely support medical marijuana) into a rambling tailspin about how legalizing medical marijuana causes heroin addicts to sell it to children. Yeah, that's pretty much what we've learned to expect from him, but as much as O'Reilly makes me sick, I think he epitomizes the sort of pure drug war lunacy that's done so much to alienate the public.
Apparently, the producers at FOX see it too, which would help to explain why they've brought Stossel in on the conversation.
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Comment posted by newageblues on Sat, 10/24/2009 - 10:01pmThey claim that any marijuana use by parents constitutes child abuse. Then they claim that all the real child abuse caused by alcohol is confirmation that the war on selected drug users, including peaceful cannabis users, but not including alcohol users, must be vigorously fought. What a bunch of jokesters.
CASA Stats Skewed
Comment posted by William Aiken on Wed, 10/21/2009 - 9:18pmWilliam Aiken
The statstistics O'Reilly quoted from CASA are skewed in his favor. When O'Reilly claimed that 70% of child abuse is drug related, that figure includes "Endangering the Welfare of a Child" charges where if pot is discovered in a household with a child, the parents can be and usually are charged with that crime, even thou no abuse has taken place.
Stossel rightly points out that most of that drug related abuse is alcohol, but since CASA doesn't distinguish which drug causes what abuse, the stats are almost meaningless. I hope Stossel reads up on this points and calls O'Reilly on them the next time they debate this issue. It was good to see someone like Stossel arguing logical points to O'Reilly's emotional ones. If O'Reilly were truly concerned about the kids, he ought to object to all the orphans the drug war has created whenever social services are brought into the picture after a drug raid.