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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe bottom of the Sewer lies about Colorado, SNAP, and pot...
Which is only natural for "Fox And Friends," being the bottom of the Sewer.
Fox Pretends Coloradans Can Buy Pot With Food Stamps
Fox News seized on Colorado's legalization of recreational use and sale of marijuana to stoke fears -- while offering no evidence -- that low-income Americans could use food stamps to buy marijuana. In fact, food stamp recipients are barred from purchasing non-food items, cannot withdraw food stamps as cash, and fraud in the program is extremely rare.
http://mediamatters.org/blog/2014/01/21/fox-pretends-coloradans-can-buy-pot-with-food-s/197666
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The bottom of the Sewer lies about Colorado, SNAP, and pot... (Original Post)
Archae
Jan 2014
OP
I hear most of them smoke up and then go work for ACORN to register Mickey Mouse to vote
NightWatcher
Jan 2014
#3
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)1. The only pot-related taxpayer funded gravy train
is the DEA and the drug war.
rgbecker
(4,817 posts)4. bingo!
Lady Freedom Returns
(14,120 posts)2. You can not use SNAP to buy any tobbacco products.
And guess what? Marijuana is being treated like cigarets and alcohol. So sorry FOX, imbalanced again, as always!
NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)3. I hear most of them smoke up and then go work for ACORN to register Mickey Mouse to vote