The internet mocks Laura Ingraham for freaking out over potheads on CNN

[Pluvious]

My favorite reply:

"Laura Ingraham, tweeting at us from the 1920s. Any luck that she stays there?"

Rotfl !

https://www.rawstory.com/2018/01/you-could-use-a-bit-o-weed-the-internet-mocks-laura-ingraham-for-freaking-out-over-potheads-on-cnn/

[samnsara]

1. someone get that girl a doobie

[Fred Sanders]

2. What is CNN doing hosting RW witches and allowing them to spew vile on the airwaves?

It was CNN's and mass media's blind and lazy pursuit of ratings that got Shitler elected...the orange menace even just drunk on power tweeted so.

[question everything]

3. Except that Radny Kay just carried that container a few steps and gave it to a party goer

But hey, why miss and opportunity to remind people that she matters? (To whom by the way?)

[Initech]

4. Sounds like someone needs a hit!

[Voltaire2]

5. Oddly enough pot was legal in the 20s.

It became illegal, on a federal level, with the 1937 marijuana tax act.

[paleotn]

14. Big tobacco doesn't like competition.

[Voltaire2]

16. It was actually because the ur-prohibitionist Harry Anslinger needed a new battle

He f'd up the whole booze thing, but damn if that didn't create a whole new bureaucracy that needed gainful employment, people to put in jail, criminals to organize, and corruption to engender. So he invented the war on all the other intoxicants.

[Cirque du So-What]

6. Light up or leave me alone

[Trust Buster]

7. She seems to forget how David Brock portrayed her in his book Blinded By The Right.

She has done much, much worse.......LOL

[TeamPooka]

8. Prohibition is a failed public policy, again...

Legalizing cannabis turns a money pool controlled by cartels into a revenue stream of jobs, taxes, and money that benefits all citizens.

#BigWeed money can go to the "Escobars" or to rebuilding America's infrastructure, your choice.

[LiberalLovinLug]

9. Interesting to read some of those tweet repsonses.

A few from right wingers that say they agree with every other thing she says, but they disagree on this.

Its about time Democrats not only play to our strengths...like actually touting our own horn and accomplishments, which is so sorely lacking. But also play their weaknesses against them. Its time we used wedge issues to divide them as they do to us. Dems should be making it clear that they believe in responsible legalization across the country. And play on the personal choice angle. Because if we can get a few more moderate Republicans to come over on one issue, they may begin to see the light on other issues.

[questionseverything]

11. hc could not even bring herself to support medical mj

our system is a mess when 90% of the country supports medical mj and somehow we get 2 rival candidates that are against it

[left-of-center2012]

10. Cavemen smoked weed

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You don't see them driving stoned.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

12. Not so sure.

Barney Rubble didn't have the best of driving records. Of course, he could have been mashing some grapes with those bare feet instead.

..........

[paleotn]

13. Then what explains Laura's schizophrenia?

Don't tell me she's a closet pot head.

[jmowreader]

15. What the hell is "Big Weed"?

[Voltaire2]

17. better yet why are republicans against making money? I thought that was their whole raisin debtor.

[Iggo]

20. Lol @ raisin debtor.

That's my new favorite thing!

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

18. It's where weed comes from, after the small growers are muscled out.

Politicians will be paid, Sheriffs will be paid, competition will be absorbed or eliminated.

Big Weed will emerge, probably as a branch of Big Pharma or a few distilleries.

I hope it goes the way of wineries and breweries, with some big producers and a bunch of "craft" growers.

[jmowreader]

19. In the current marketplace, there is no "Big Weed"

Ingraham is dancing around spewing the standard rabble-rousing phrase "Big (whatever)" without considering: As things now stand, with a very small number of states allowing legalized cannabis and none allowing it to cross the state line, there could never be a "Big Weed." There could be a lot of "Small Weed"s, but five hundred "Small Weed" businesses do not add up to one "Big Weed."

If pot was legal in federal law - enabling an interstate pot market like the interstate alcohol market that exists now - then a Big Weed could exist.

I would like to see three things happen:

* A "craft" market for small boutique producers who sell varietal cannabis to "pot geeks." (Think "beer geek" with less foam.)
* A "macroweed" market for people who just like to smoke weed but don't care about strains.
and
* A "medical" market of companies engineering cannabis to express certain cannabinoids and suppress others. And like it or not, the FIRST cannabinoid to be suppressed in most of this work would be THC.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

21. If some strain of cannabis has reduced THC, would we call it "Bud Lite"? nt

[jmowreader]

22. You would...