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Fox News Says You Can Buy What With Welfare?
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March 7, 2014
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Fox news continues its misinformation on welfare, food stamps by surprisingly tying in medical marijuana.
It's no surprise that pundits on Fox News enjoy equivocating welfare use with drug abuse. But what is surprising or should be a surprise is that this kind of poor bashing has actually lead to lawmakers introducing legislation to eliminate a problem that never really even existed.
That's just what Republican Representative Paul Gosar of Arizona did. Gosar was so incensed from reports aired on a local news station that was later rebroadcast on Fox News, that food stamp recipients had allegedly withdrawn cash benefits from legal medical marijuana shops in Colorado using their EBT cards.
While the local affiliate found no evidence that this cash had been used to buy weed, Fox news not only reported, but assumed without facts that indeed these welfare bums were indeed buying pot with their "entitlements" because hey that's what people on welfare do.
Gosar's bill would make it illegal to use SNAP benefits or TANF otherwise known as Welfare benefits from buying legal marijuana.
I want to set the record straight here by informing the congressmen and our audience that such things are already illegal.
"SNAP recipients may purchase only approved food items with their benefits and are prohibited from buying alcohol, tobacco, and non-food items."
"SNAP benefits also cannot be withdrawn as cash"
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