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Originally Posted by PR_Tom
Was funny seeing my local news cover this today. They show clips of kids getting high, smoking bongs, smoking joints, smoking out of what looks like crack pipes, you can practically see needles sticking out of their arms..
And the story is about medical marijuana.
Why didnt they show chemotherapy patients? Doctors in lab coats? Patients with machines keeping them alive? Barfing cancer patients desperate for something to calm them and give them some relief? Guess good old stock footage of illegal drug use is "good enough" for local news huh.
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Yikes!!! Amazing how the media can't be objective on hot topics like this. Saying one thing while showing another definitely sends the wrong message and the conservatives see better than they hear. The stereotype for mj users doesn't fit reality. I think until they legalize it, the media will still equate users with addicts. What they should do is compare drunk people with folks who are high. That is a much better comparison of how benign mj use is.