Oh Nancy, Nancy, Nancy. Can we just not go a week without you succumbing to foot-in-mouth disease??Nancy Grace latches on to subjects of high controversy quite regularly, so when she rehashed the discussion of marijuana last night, it wasn’t a surprise.
Nancy has a pretty predictable setup for her shows. She will invite a guest on; then herself, along with someone who misquotes or misrepresents data just as negligently as she does, proceed to harass the guest into submission. If you have ever seen an episode of this woman’s show, you know the pattern.
Last night the guest was NORML‘s Norm Kent, who was there to express his disdain for Nancy’s attacks on recreational marijuana users.
?Your argument is not real because you take isolated instances of aberrant behavior and try to make them standardized for all marijuana users. And once and for all, Nancy, have you no conscience??
Nancy scoffed at Kent, telling him he was “obviously stoned” before turning to her crony Dr. Michael Arnall. Arnall is a Forensic Pathologist who said the following:
“I can tell you that it is relatively common to find THC in the blood after individuals either shoot or hang themselves, get in front of guns, or are shot in homicides. We’re finding it relatively common in children to have to do toxicology in kids under five and hair toxicology for kids under five to see what type of ambient environment in which the kids live. So it’s common to see dead children with THC in their hair. So my impression is that there is just an appalling human carnage associated with this psychotropic drug.”
Did Nancy’s goon just say that dead children?are a result of recreational marijuana use without offering up any statistics to back up his case? Yes, yes he did.
The problem here is that people watch shows such as Nancy Grace’s for fear. You know them – they may be your mother, sister, or neighbor. Whoever they are to you, the common theme is?always about some horrible case they saw on TV, or?how the world is such a horrible place. In reality, crime rates have dropped by almost half of what rates were in 1993.
This constant streaming of truly random, isolated crimes and blanketing them to apply to common trends is called fear mongering. And this twisted trend of media?must be stopped.
Another voice in last night’s episode was fellow HLN personality, Dr. Drew Pinsky. However, to the viewers delight, Dr. Drew didn’t fall in line with Nancy’s argument. Dr. Drew was quick to point out that THC in the system does not mean the suspect’s marijuana usage is to blame for violent acts, but instead strengthened the argument that the suspect was going through withdrawals from other drugs.
Then Dr. Drew said something that millions of people have been crying for decades. If we are going lump all drugs together and declare them all to be bad, then we MUST include tobacco and alcohol. We can not have it both ways, and Nancy can’t keep misrepresenting recreational marijuana users to be homicidal baby killers.
