Major Journo Fail: Why the “60 Minutes” story on Marijuana was Half-Baked
Diehards still watching broadcast TV may remember CBS as the “Tiffany Network,” and the venerable “60 Minutes” newsmag as its crown jewel. Sadly, the show’s pre-election curtain-raiser about historic votes to legalize marijuana felt more like shopping for cubic zirconia knockoffs at the strip mall.
The “Pot Vote” story started out O.K. with an intro from Dr. Jon LaPook, the network’s white-haired chief medical correspondent. LaPook helpfully points out that on Election Day 2016, voters in five states will decide whether to legalize recreational marijuana, as Colorado had done in 2012. If all of those ballot measures pass, LaPook reports the percentage of people in the U.S. who can obtain cannabis without risking arrest or prosecution will increase fivefold.
So far, so good.
But after interviewing a former real estate investor who’s betting his fortune on a massive cannabis farm in Pueblo Colorado, the story quickly goes off the rails. In case you missed it,...
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