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Arizona Republic tests the limit of the First Amendment

10.26.20

October 4, 2020 the Arizona Republic’s editorial board endorsed that state’s Proposition 207 to legalize, commercialize and tax recreational marijuana sales.  Anyone has the right to disagree with our position that Proposition 207 should be defeated, but when they misrepresent the facts to support their position, we should respond.

October 21, the newspaper published an online story, “Where recreational marijuana is legal, data show minimal impacts on teen use and traffic deaths.”  The next day, … READ MORE

FactCheck.org is Drinking the Kool-Aid

12.22.17

Until this month we felt that fact checking sites were immune to the ignorance and bias evident in media reporting of drugged-driving facts.  Our experience with FactCheck.org and their subsidiary SciCheck has proven to us that they too are “drinking the Kool-Aid.”

December 14th SciCheck took AG Jeff Sessions to task for errors he made in a June 22nd private Q&A with interns at the DOJ.  Fair enough, Sessions’ statement was flawed, but … READ MORE

Lies, Damns Lies and Statistics

12.13.17

The marijuana lobby’s media spokesmen Westword and Merry Jane were quick to laud trauma surgeon Jayson Aydelotte’s August 2017 report from the University of Texas – Austin. The report in the American Journal of Public Health studied fatal vehicle crashes in several states. They found that in Colorado and Washington – states where selling weed online for recreational use is allowed – fatal crashes were not statistically different from similar states without recreational marijuana.… READ MORE

Vermont’s S.22 misadventure

06.09.17

Vermont’s legislature sent a recreational marijuana legalization bill to Governor Scott May 18, 2017.  Four days later, Scott vetoed the bill, noting concerns with drugged driving and access to marijuana by children.  He nevertheless invited the legislature to work with him to craft a version the bill that he could sign.  The legislature is scheduled to consider overriding the veto in a special session later in June.  The results are uncertain at this time, so … READ MORE

It’s not a contest, folks!

05.31.17

The Governors Highway Safety Association (GHSA) updated its 2017 drugged driving report that has garnered an immense amount of press.  

Many in the media understood the report to say that drugged driving has surpassed drunk driving, although that was not the report’s conclusion.  Data were reported based upon NHTSA’s FARS reports which in turn are primarily based on coroner’s testing of drug and alcohol content of drivers killed in fatal crashes.  The GHSA report … READ MORE

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