There’s probably a good reason NBC News had Chelsea Clinton doing feel-good puff pieces for the network rather than investigative reporting; comments she made over the weekend about marijuana while campaigning for her mother in Ohio have some asking the fact-checkers to get to work.
Marijuana.com wrote up a summary of Clinton’s visit to Youngstown, Ohio, last weekend, where she spoke before a group of college students. Writer Tom Angell expressed concern that Clinton, whose father tried marijuana but famously didn’t inhale, was spreading misinformation about marijuana and drug interactions.
After praising some of marijuana’s medicinal benefits, Clinton added a caveat: “We also have anecdotal evidence now from Colorado where some of the people who were taking marijuana for those purposes, the coroner believes, after they died, there was drug interactions with other things they were taking.”
Anecdotal evidence, also known as the best kind.
— Thee Last Melo Stan ???☘ (@IRodC) September 26, 2016
But … this is coming from the party of science. Hillary Clinton even declared, “I believe in science” during her historic acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention.
New Weed research initiative from the Clinton Foundation. "It cures your autism, but then kills you."
— Errrrc (@eric_time) September 26, 2016
ppl who use the Royal We "we now know from science…" are usually full of crap
— Phillips Pasha (@PhillipsPasha) September 26, 2016
what a bunch of nonsense words to maintain status quo. It's such a joke that they won't even pretend to entertain it
— ～ ｄ ｒ ｕ ｇ ｓ ～ (@losdrogas) September 26, 2016
Marijuana is weird; well, especially when it intersects with politics. Bill Clinton tried it but didn’t inhale, and he wouldn’t lie about something like that. Fast forward to 2016 and the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, where President Obama joked about how he hadn’t been so high since “trying to decide on my major” (a gag preserved on the White House website for generations to enjoy).
Add to that the complicating factor that President Obama has been commuting the sentences of literally hundreds of non-violent drug offenders (even those with firearms violations as well) because he believes drug sentencing as it stands is outdated, unfair, and results in racial disparity in prison populations. That’s a lot of pressure on Hillary Clinton from the pro-legalization crowd, and they’re paying attention.
Chelsea Clinton implies here that marijuana can kill you. Uhh pic.twitter.com/cdBWGgDG5P
— Lee Fang (@lhfang) September 27, 2016
full context here https://t.co/4mpsP4f4kK
— Lee Fang (@lhfang) September 27, 2016
https://twitter.com/letsplaythisbro/status/780884454638096384
you could trip over some marijuana and fall into a well
— leon (@leyawn) September 27, 2016
https://twitter.com/OmanReagan/status/780886960835440640
Yeah, NBC found that out pretty quickly.
"We have anecdotal evidence"
Oh, well good; that settles it.— Brian Hubble (@BrianHubbleADF) September 27, 2016
I think Chelsea said that some coroner in Colorado said that somebody who died had medication that mixed lethally with marijuana?
— JFB jeff. (@jeffervy) September 27, 2016
https://twitter.com/ManCaveJokes/status/780883700921667584
.@lhfang Chelsea practicing little baby lies, working toward the day she can emulate her mother and tell unconscionable lies.
— D'Pen (@gr8tale) September 27, 2016
why do they keep sending her out on the stump? She continually proves she is the worst surrogate ever.
— Dave Hobbs (@IamDaveHobbs) September 27, 2016
I have a better chance at being killed by @HillaryClinton than marijuana.
— Oflameo (@Oflameo) September 27, 2016
exposing a Clinton is much more dangerous
— jim mcguigan (@jimmcguigan1) September 27, 2016
this is profoundly stupid
— chris person (@Papapishu) September 27, 2016
For someone from the Ivy League, she's not too bright.
— ? barkway ? (@barkway) September 27, 2016
Why is this nitwit even quotable?
— georgiainoregon (@georgiainoregon) September 27, 2016
https://twitter.com/HardlyApathetic/status/780883372071608320
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