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Laura Ingraham brings up 'link' between pot and violence and Internet goes reefer mad

Laura Ingraham claimed that rampant school shootings are a consequence of the legalization of marijuana

Laura Ingraham on Tuesday, May 31, led a discussion to draw a supposed link between the legalization of marijuana and mass shootings, side-stepping any discussion on gun control. Ingraham had as a guest Dr. Russell Kamer, medical director of Partners in Safety, a group that works with companies to provide drug tests for its employees, among other things.

Ingraham began the discussion by claiming that “it was initially reported” that the 18-year-old gunman Salvador Ramos, who killed 19 children and two adults at Robb Elementary School in Texas last week, “was a user” but that The New York Times “mysteriously” removed that detail from an article. “Why aren’t people in general not talking more about the pot psychosis–violent behavior connection?” Ingraham asked.

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“What we find in studies [is that] it’s very clear that the use of the high potency marijuana is strongly associated with the development of psychosis,” Kamer replied. “My colleagues in Colorado are sounding the alarm because that was one of the first states to legalize. It’s practically a daily occurrence that kids come into the emergency rooms in florid, cannabis-induced psychosis,” he added.

Ingraham continued by saying that soon she'd be receiving hatred on social media for her claim, adding that politicians calling for gun control should actually be focusing on the dangers of marijuana. “People like Beto [O’Rourke]... they are fine with doing a run on the guns and I guess you could argue that if that’s what you want to do—try to get rid of the Second Amendment—but yet [they are] completely oblivious to what the legalization of marijuana has done and is doing to an entire generation of Americans with violent consequences,” Ingraham said.

“It’s very scary what’s going to happen. We have just seen the beginning,” Kamer replied. If marijuana is legalized at the federal level, he added, “we predict there will be at least 7,000 excess traffic fatalities a year."

As predicted by Ingraham herself, social media went mad over her claims. A user wrote, "Reefer Madness! Get rid of pot, and guns aren’t a problem! #GunControlNow."

Another wrote, "Laura Ingraham discovered where all Q conspiracy theories come from- The Lost Tapes of Reefer Madness." 

One user wrote, "Uhmmmmmmm as a f**king daily stoner for let’s say awhile (stopped me from being an alcoholic but I digress) this is F**KIN STUPID boomer shit. Go watch reefer madness again Lara you fu**in moron. Pot psychosis fu**in lmao."