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n a segment Monday night on The OReilly Factor, host Bill OReilly claimed the left supported marijuana legalization because children in certain ghetto neighborhoods were using the drug. The Fox News host was responding to the New York Times call for the legalization of marijuana. Joined by anti-legalization advocate Kevin Sabet, OReilly said that the left has claimed that marijuana is harmless and that they are concerned that the blacks are being trapped by drug laws.
Look, the left is basically saying harmless, okay, which I dont agree with, I think you know that. Not a harmless substance, alright, OReilly explained. And, its blacks, you know, because in certain ghetto neighborhoods its part of the culture. nine-year-old boys and girls are smoking it, and they dont like that. They dont want those kids to be targeted by the cops.
OReilly did not note that, although black and white Americans use marijuana at about the same rates, African Americans are arrested at nearly four times the rate of whites for marijuana possession. Taking his cue from OReilly, Sabet added, The last thing poor communities need is another substance. Actually, there are eight times as many liquor stores in communities of color in this country. Why would we want to add another.. before OReilly began talking over him.
As OReilly guest Stephen Gutwillig, from the Drug Policy Alliance, attempted to explain that the changes advocated by the Times were not about encouraging use, but controlling marijuana in a different way, OReilly cut him off. Look, you know the unintended consequence of legalization of anything is to send a message to children that its socially acceptable, OReilly lectured. I mean, any parent who is smoking marijuana in front of the child is abusing the child, in my opinion. And now you have pot shops, youre going to buy it at 7-11? Its insane. http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/07/29/bill-oreilly-its-part-of-the-culture-in-the-ghetto-for-9-year-olds-to-smoke-weed/
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)when you have the munchies.
frylock
(34,825 posts)or is it just smoking in front of the kids that is to be considered abusive?
el_bryanto
(11,804 posts)for smoking pot. 9 Year old smoking pots are the most terrible menace this country has ever passed. They are worse than 10 Hitlers.
Bryant