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Laura Ingraham previously demonstrated an ability to use her platform irresponsibly and did so again during a broadcast. During a segment of her show, Ingraham attacked marijuana legalization and attempted to link the action to the recent uptick in gun violence.
During a The Ingraham Angle segment on Tuesday (May 31), the host made the fumbling attempt to connect marijuana with the rash of mass shootings cropping up across America. Instead of using the time to delve into the haphazard laws and regulations surrounding gun control, Ingraham took a lower road. Speaking with Dr. Russell Kamer, the medical director of Partners in Safety, a group that fashions drug testing initiatives for employers, was framed to demonize all things cannabis.
“Why aren’t people in general not talking more about the pot psychosis–violent behavior connection?” Ingraham said, using unconfirmed information that the Uvalde shooter was a marijuana user.
“What we find in studies, it’s very clear that the use of the high potency marijuana is strongly associated with the development of psychosis,” Kamer answered. Ingraham then added that because THC levels are higher in today’s cannabis offerings, this has something to do with gun violence.
Ingraham, clearly focused on her viewership’s narrow views and stoking the fears of gun owners, grasped at the notion that legalization efforts should be prioritized over gun safety concerns.
“People like Beto [O’Rourke], they are fine with doing a run on the guns and I guess you could argue that if that’s what you want to do, [which is to] try to get rid of the Second Amendment—but yet…completely oblivious to what the legalization of marijuana has done and is doing to an entire generation of Americans with violent consequences, Ingraham said with incoherent aplomb.
Opponents of marijuana legalization have stated in earnest that upticks in violence have a connection although those facts and figures have largely been debunked. On Twitter, folks are letting Laura Ingraham have it over her needless Reefer Madness rabble-rousing. Check out the reactions below.
Ingraham: Why aren’t people in general not talking more about the pot psychosis violent behavior connection? pic.twitter.com/SKBU5QWFBZ
— Acyn (@Acyn) June 1, 2022
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Good lord, Laura Ingraham thinks Reefer Madness is to blame for gun violence.
WTF kinda weed is SHE smoking?
— BrooklynDad_Defiant! (@mmpadellan) June 1, 2022
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Reefer Madness obviously doesn’t cause mass shootings.
Not one person has ever been reported shot at a Willie Nelson concert. pic.twitter.com/VPLeXud3Ym
— Robby (@robowski5951) June 1, 2022
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Oh my sweet baby jesus. Really? They’re so desperate for talking points that they’re digging out this old gem?
https://t.co/vZTnfZrUxW
— Mueller, She Wrote (@MuellerSheWrote) June 1, 2022
4.
So far Republicans have blamed the shooting in Texas on the following instead of machine guns
1. FBI
2. CRT
3. Woke mobs
4. Doors that lock
5. Doors that don’t lock
6. Too many doors
7. Lockdowns
8. Cops
9. Not enough cops
10. Video games
11. Teachers
12. Ukraine aid
13. Chicago— Luke Zaleski (@ZaleskiLuke) May 29, 2022
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This isn't the first or second or even thirtieth time they've said this even within the past year. They throw it out there every few months. They bring out some quack with either sus credentials or ties to one of many think tanks to just repeat quotes from Reefer Madness pic.twitter.com/uwmV3Xhwgw
— DJ Caelid (@s1mpcity3000) June 1, 2022
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Reefer Madness 2: Electric Boogaloo https://t.co/PjZcHzPihT
— Justin Baragona (@justinbaragona) June 1, 2022
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BREAKING: Desperate to distract from guns, Laura Ingraham laughably asks why people aren’t instead talking about “pot psychosis” and an imaginary link between marijuana and “violent behavior.” RT IF YOU THINK THAT REPUBLICAN TALKING POINTS ARE PATHETIC!
— Occupy Democrats (@OccupyDemocrats) June 1, 2022
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If more people smoked pot, I guarantee you there would be less violence. I don't know what she's smoking to say otherwise.
This Reefer Madness stuff is just stupid and always has been.
By the way, if you don't know how the war on drugs started, now you know. It was a strategy. https://t.co/1LWeOVM38m pic.twitter.com/IHLsex5nba
— Scott Santens (@scottsantens) June 1, 2022
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Laura Ingraham says pot can cause violence. Reefer Madness, doncha know. She may be on to something there. I mean, one time when I was high I murdered… a bag of chips.
— Oh So Scary Larry
(@scaryscarylarry) June 1, 2022
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Reefer madness is such a funny concept to me because I'm way nicer to folks when high than sober lmao. I couldn't imagine taking a rip and going like "HOOOGH, FUCK, I'M GONNA GO PUNCH A TODDLER"
— Jules the Editor (@UncrownedJules) June 1, 2022
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