Idiots who ruin it for the rest of us

[lexmv3]

So, I caught the beginning to CNN Newsroom about 39 minutes ago, and guess what glorious headline they open up with. "Toddler Smokes Pot." They were still editing the video, apparently, but they showed some of it and the gist of it is this: A 17 year old and an 18 year old are smoking what is clearly a blunt. There is a 2 year old and a 5 year old with them. 17 year old and 18 year old get 2 year old and 5 year old to take a few hits and shoot a video of them doing it. Said video is now in the hands of CNN. Said video will undoubtedly be replayed ad nauseum on the channel as well as other news shows, not to mention the internet. We all know how this going to be spun. This'll be the story about the dangers of marijuana. The drug will be the focus, and not the immense, unfathomable stupidity of the teenagers who thought this was a funny thing to do. You don't give a toddler a blunt because you're high. You give a toddler a blunt because you're an idiot. Chances are if they weren't smoking, they'd be doing some other dumb, reckless thing with these kids. *sigh* There are just some people who should never smoke. Brace yourselves responsible smokers cuz this might set something off in the airwaves for the next series of days.

lexmv3 Reviewed by lexmv3 on 03-04-2007. Idiots who ruin it for the rest of us So, I caught the beginning to CNN Newsroom about 39 minutes ago, and guess what glorious headline they open up with. "Toddler Smokes Pot." They were still editing the video, apparently, but they showed some of it and the gist of it is this: A 17 year old and an 18 year old are smoking what is clearly a blunt. There is a 2 year old and a 5 year old with them. 17 year old and 18 year old get 2 year old and 5 year old to take a few hits and shoot a video of them doing it. Said video is now in Rating: 5

[Scarlet Sky]

makes me wanna slap somebody. and people that fall into the cliche, why? you're just making people look down on you and promoting a general bad rep for cannabis... not that i don't have any tie die's or anything

[lazy smoker7]

oh jesus... i bet there gonna say stuff like... Marijuana MIND CONTROLing drug makes people want to get babies high...

[orangeman]

Yeah, now that is just stupid. It's people like them that needs to just stop..

[lexmv3]

Yep, I was right. The first thing I see when I turn on CNN...the video. Turns out it was confiscated during a robbery investigation. The teenagers face felony charges and the kids have been picked up by child services. And what was some the commentary during the playing of the video? The effects THC has on the body. The short term memory reduction, other effects on the brain, and all that. Long term? Cell damage in the body as a whole.:wtf: Not that I expect CNN or any mainstream "news" outlet to devote time to discussing the positive aspects of MJ as well as the negative, especially in regards to a story like this. When drugs and children are in the same story, you can forget about it. The focus probably shouldn't be on that anyway in this particular story. It should be on the recklessness and the idiocy of the people looking after these kids. The mere fact they were already under investigation for robbery says a lot. Innocent until proven guilty I know, but if making a videotape of themselves giving a toddler a few hits off a blunt isn't an indication of their character, I don't know what is.

[PatrickHenry]

Yeah I already saw this video on the local news. It does make us look bad. Did you see the video of the "giggling bank robbers" who were stoned and robbing a bank? Apparently they knew the teller and it was some big setup. Unfortunately it will make stoners look like robbers to the common ignoramus.

[ZeldaG.]

see these peeople dont realise what they doing (not that they would care fi they did realise :S) they simply dont classify themselves as cannabis smokers in any way, they just see it as a reckless COOL thing to do cause all the COOL kids do it, it all makes me so fucking mad especially when i seem to be surrounded by these fucking morons...

[Markass]

Another reason to legalize marijuana...so we won't have irresponsible idiot kids fucking trying to get children to smoke. If it were in a store, they wouldn't have been able to buy it and give it to the little kids.

[thCA livin]

Another reason to legalize marijuana...so we won't have irresponsible idiot kids fucking trying to get children to smoke
How so? They would have access to the bud one way or another.

"If it were in a store, they wouldn't have been able to buy it and give it to the little kids."
Like anything, there are ways around everything.

[lexmv3]

Yeah, I'm all for legalization, or at the very least decriminalization. Unfortunately, it's not the access to the drug that's the problem in this kind of situation. It's the motivations and the intelligence(or lack of it) of the people who have it. For instance, there was a story a couple of months ago about a young couple that sent their baby to the hospital cuz they fed it with a bottle that had gin inside of it instead of milk. Legal substance, dumb-ass people. And stupidity isn't something that can be regulated.