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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSean Hannity: Legalized Weed Kills
The host had two guests on with him, one who was mostly pro-legalization (Drugs are like alcohol and guns and they need to be put away in a safe place) and one who was vehemently against (Ive read about people dying already from smoking too much pot and then falling), but in the clip below he spends most of his time lamenting the apparent dangers of marijuana and putting forth the notion that smoking pot can lead directly to death.
Moving beyond babies and dogs, Hannity settled on the recent story out of Colorado about 19-year-old college student Levy Thamba who leaped from a fourth-floor hotel balcony after apparently eating a marijuana cookie. According to the autopsy report, marijuana intoxication was listed as a significant contributing factor to the death.
As Hannitys pro-legalization guest pointed out, the key word there is contributing, meaning authorities could not say that marijuana use was solely responsible for the students death. And even if they could somehow prove that the drug caused the student to jump off of the balcony, that is not the same as overdosing on a drug that induces actual medical harm.
But that didnt stop the host, who barreled forward, declaring that Thamba overdosed on edible marijuana and shouting he was stoned out of his mind! Again, even if one could definitively blame marijuana for this clearly tragic incident, it is hardly an argument against the legalization of the drug.
If the bar for making something illegal is one person having an abnormally bad reaction, then you can say goodbye to alcohol (88,000 deaths per year in the U.S.) as well as all prescription drugs (37,000 deaths per year). Come to think of it, car accidents are pretty bad (34,000 deaths per year) so wed better get rid of them, too.
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Sean Hannity: Legalized Weed Kills (Original Post)
pokerfan
Apr 2014
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Wounded Bear
(58,647 posts)1. Legalized Sean Hannity kills...nt
DisgustipatedinCA
(12,530 posts)2. Just exhaled on Sean's ugly mug above. I hope he felt it.
Now pardon me while I go jump off a balcony after having my very first dissociative experience with pot after 30 years of use.
Historic NY
(37,449 posts)3. The bullshit he eats is definitely mushing his brain.
NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)4. Such a stupid fuck, existing on the crumbs of Limpballs.
When he tries to say something original, it sounds like a Speak and Spell threw up.
He really should be in the minor leagues of hate radio.
sorefeet
(1,241 posts)5. Hannity makes a fool of himself
on a daily basis. He is a lying propagandist and his following of ignorant, low information voters just eat it up. Can't wait until one of his kids gets busted.