QOTD: A gullible police chief
by digby
Some people will believe anything:
“The first day of legalization, that’s when Colorado experienced 37 deaths that day from overdose on marijuana,” said Annapolis, Md., police chief Michael Pristoop while testifying against legislation to decriminalize cannabis in Maryland, according to the Capital Gazette. “I remember the first day it was decriminalized there were 37 deaths.”
He was informed that this statistic came from the satirical web site The Daily Current and later apologized, which is nice.
But how could a police chief think such a thing is possible?
Obviously, the man is completely out of touch if he was willing to believe that pot could kill people at all. He’s downright stupid if he thought that it was reasonable that it killed 37 people in one day. The day it became legal.
This man is the police chief of a fair sized city.
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