NEWS: UN Head touts success of his country’s decriminalization of all drugs; DEBUNK: Kevin Sabet’s claims about legalization at UNODC in Vienna; GUEST: Steve Bloom, editor-in-chief of Freedom Leaf magazine; RANT: Idaho Senator breaks the law to protect Gov. Butch Otter from issuing a 2nd CBD oil veto.
Debunking Sabet: The Supply-and-Demand Doesn’t Obey Borders Dilemma
March 15, 2018
March 15, 2018
Drugs
Austria, Kevin Sabet, Project SAMUEL, United Nations, UNODC, Vienna
It is too late now to turn back the clock. The feds might succeed in shutting down commercial marijuana industries, but they cannot force states to re-criminalize personal cultivation and possession.
Debunking Sabet: The New Stoned Colorado Kids Misdirection
March 14, 2018
March 14, 2018
Drugs
Colorado, Kevin Sabet, Project SAMUEL, Teens, United Nations, UNODC
Here Sabet is using a trick I like to call “stat in a vacuum.” It’s a technique where you find one data point that makes your opponent’s case look bad and omitting all other context that actually proves your opponent’s case.
Debunking Sabet: The Dead Stoned Drivers Fallacy
March 14, 2018
March 14, 2018
Drugs
Austria, Kevin Sabet, Project SAMUEL, United Nations, UNODC, Vienna
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When confronting Sabet, you must watch his use of “weasel words,” those turns of phrase that are vaguely defined enough to escape accountability to fact. In this case, it’s “where marijuana was involved.”
Dr. Jahan Marcu, with Americans for Safe Access’s 2018 Report on the State of Medical Marijuana in the United States, and Marijuana Policy Project Communications Director Morgan Fox on the roadblock to federal marijuana reform, Congressman Pete Sessions