Why are New York Times Reporters So Dumb About Cannabis?
The movement to legalize marijuana, the country’s most popular illicit drug, will take a giant leap on Election Day if California and four other states vote to allow recreational cannabis, as polls suggest they may. – “Election May Be a Turning Point for Legal Marijuana,” The New York Times, Oct 24, 2016
The headline above Thomas Fuller’s page-one piece in yesterday’s New York Times offered hope to legalization advocates, but the article itself ended up being poorly reported on so many levels that it left me nothing but frustrated and grouchy. Here we are, four years into the legal era in Colorado and Washington; on the verge of legalizing recreational marijuana in California, Massachusetts, Arizona, Nevada and Maine; and all Fuller can do is recycle all the well-worn and disproven clichés about cannabis. I don’t understand how the Times could allow such piffle through, especially when the paper’s editorial page has famously—for more than...
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