Fox News Pundit Panics After Smelling Weed In Central Park

Fox News pundit Joe Concha said that he was overwhelmed by the "smell of weed" while walking through Central Park this week, and he then blamed violent crime in the city on incidents like this. There is no connection between the two events, and this talking point has been used by anti-marijuana crusaders for nearly 100 years in America. Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins explains what's happening.

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During a segment on Thursday, Fox news contributor, Joe concha, while appearing on the Fox business channel, of course, wind about the fact that he could not make it through central park the other day, because my God, everywhere he turned, all you could do was smell the weed. That's right. Apparently pot smokers have taken over central park and Joe conscience says, this is clearly why New York is having a crime problem right now. Let me read what he had to say. We're allowing these people out on the streets and we wonder why there's an Exodus going out of New York and out of San Francisco in Los Angeles. It is primarily due to crime. It's due to the drug use that we see in the open air. I took a walk up to central park. Yesterday, had some time to kill. I could not escape the smell of weed everywhere.

And it's just New York is not what it used to be. I know that personally weeds legal in New York. So you're right. It's not the place it used to be. They eased up. on throwing people in jail for pot about a year ago. And uh, so if you're smelling weed in central park, what you're smelling is actually law abiding citizens. And I'm sorry if that you off, but I guarantee you, those people that you walk past and you smell the pot on, I don't think they're all sitting there planning murders. I don't think they're sitting there planning massive robberies. I think they're sitting there talking about, Hey, where do you want to go eat after this? We should go take a nap. I love how these people who've clearly, clearly never smoked pot in their lives. Love to link pot to all this like crazy extreme behavior folks.

I think a lot of people watching this understand, like if you get high, the last thing you're thinking of is pulling off a major crime. And even if you're discussing it, I guarantee you you're not actually gonna do it because you're gonna forget about it in about five seconds. and then you get people like Joe concha, who again, I have to assume the guy has never even dabbled in it a little bit, cuz he has no idea how people behave on marijuana. Marijuana becoming legal in the state of New York of course is not. What's leading to more crime in New York city. In fact, it's technically by making it legal, you're actually reducing that, that part of crime. But if you wanna talk about crime in places like LA and San Francisco and even New York city, which by the way, those three places aren't even the highest crime rates in the United States know those distinctions actually go to Southern states and big cities in these Southern states. The crime rate in the American south by the way is far worse than it is in those blue states. Uh, I suggest everybody go through and look up those statistics, cuz it is quite shocking. The majority of cities

In this, this country that have the highest rates of crime within the top 25 are down here in the south things. Aren't good. And do you know why that is massive inequality? That's what we have in these areas where we see surge crime rates. Again, most of 'em down here in the deep red south is growing inequality. That's what's happening. That's what's driving a lot of this. Some of it sure. You've just got violent people out there, but a lot of it has to do with inequality. You squeeze people hard enough. You leave them with nothing else and eventually yeah, you make them into a criminal because they have no other way to feed their family.