D'Alliance Blog

The good folks at the Drug Policy Alliance have started a blog called The D'Alliance that's worth checking out.

Among the tidbits I learned from it: Tommy Chong will be appearing on The Tonight Show this evening, giving his first post-prison interview since being sent up the river for selling bongs online.

And [blogrolling alert!] I stumbled across some kind words regarding my Wednesday night appearance on The O'Reilly Factor, during which I discussed--well, tried to--medical marijuana.

Comments

[Mike H.]

I thought you did pretty well on O'Reiley's show, Nick. Only advice I'd have is to try to refrain from rolling your eyes as it makes you look kinda bad - yes, even when contrasted with O'Reily shouting you down because you're "ridiculous." 🙂

I don't know about you guys, but it's got to be a good sign when Bill "The Moralist" O'Reily is in basic agreement with libertarians on medical mj.

[dead_elvis]

Outrageous:

"ANDREA BARTHWELL, MD: ...This is about making marijuana legal.
And the way in which it's written, such that a person could have six pounds, as you say, enough to fill a shopping cart...
O'REILLY: Two.
BARTHWELL: Two shopping carts, really. It allows a person so much marijuana that they could supply a whole community of schoolchildren with enough marijuana...
O'REILLY: Yeah, absolutely.
BARTHWELL: ... to keep them intoxicated for days at a time.
O'REILLY: Right. There's no question this is a ruse.

So his "no spin zone" requires him to shush-up Mr. Gillespie, yet her implication that legalizing marijuana, medical or not, leads to schoolchildren being intoxicated for days at a time, gets a free pass? If someone owns 2 carts of marijuana, it somehow automatically, magically, intoxicates schoolchildren? Bringing "schoolchildren" into it is the biggest and oldest spin there is. O'Really must have been so dizzy he missed it.

[Jamie S]

good job Nick,
I disagree with Mike H, I missed nearly 20% of Bill's rant because my own eyes were uncontrollably rolling in my own head - the only reasonable response given his refusal to let you speak.
O'Reilly's show is one of the few places in the major media that libertarian thought is treated with a shred of serious regard, I look forward to every appearance by a Reason staff member.

[Dave Weigel]

Here's a transcript -
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,125067,00.html

Best bit -
GILLESPIE: If I could finish.

O'REILLY: You can't finish, because what you're saying is ridiculous.

[Chuck]

C'mon, Nick, admit it: you just want to sell shopping carts full of dope to schoolchildren.
Admit it!

[Warren]

I want to get my dope from Bills connection. That's got to be some pretty fluffy buds to weigh in at three pounds to a shopping cart. Or maybe he shops at one of those boutique markets with the cute little carts.

[Jim Walsh]

With all due respect to Mr. Gillespie (really, Nick, I'm on your side) why would anyone with even a shred of self-resprect even consent to go on with a buffoon like O'Reilly?

[JAT]

Thanks for the tranny -- w/o it I would've never known that someone at Fox News thinks Reason is "a Libertarian publication."

[Mark S.]

S"o his "no spin zone" requires him to shush-up Mr. Gillespie, yet her implication that legalizing marijuana, medical or not, leads to schoolchildren being intoxicated for days at a time, gets a free pass?"

Of course this is a "no spin zone" Elvis, no spin except HIS.

[strippers]

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[Chicago Strippers]

The O'Reilly factor is a great Commentary and Opinion based show that presents both opposing points of view, coupled with Billy O'Reilly's usual flare for the dramatic. Great show!