Cenk Uygur
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This Is How Uninformed The Cops Can Be About Pot
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March 9, 2014
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4:40Now Playing"Testifying against bills proposed to legalize and decriminalize marijuana in the state, Annapolis Police Chief Michael Pristoop cited a hoax story that claimed 37 people had died the first day marijuana was legalized in Colorado.
"The first day of legalization, that's when Colorado experienced 37 deaths that day from overdose on marijuana," Pristoop testified at Tuesday's Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee hearing. "I remember the first day it was decriminalized there were 37 deaths."
But Sen. Jamie Raskin, D-Montgomery, who has proposed a bill that would legalize, regulate and tax the drug, immediately fact-checked Pristoop."* The Young Turks hosts Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian break it down.
*Read more here from Alex Jackson / Capital Gazette:
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