Annapolis (MD) police chief cites hoax story in opposition to marijuana legalization
Source: Capital Gazette
Testifying against bills proposed in Maryland to legalize and decriminalize marijuana, Annapolis Police Chief Michael Pristoop cited a hoax story that claimed 37 people died the first day marijuana was legalized in Colorado.
"The first day of legalization, that's when Colorado experienced 37 deaths that day from overdose on marijuana," Pristoop said in testimony at Tuesday's Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee hearing. "I remember the first day it was decriminalized there were 37 deaths."
But Sen. Jamie Raskin, D-Montgomery, who has proposed a bill that would legalize, regulate and tax the drug, immediately fact-checked Pristoop.
"Unless you have some other source for this, I'm afraid I've got to spoil the party here," Raskin said. "Your assertion that 37 people died of a marijuana overdose in Colorado was a hoax on the DailyCurrant and the Comedy Central website."
Indeed, Pristoop was apparently referring to a hoax story by the satirical website DailyCurrant.com, which reportedly fooled some people with the headline "Marijuana Overdoses Kill 37 in Colorado on First Day of Legalization."
Read more: http://www.capitalgazette.com/blogs/under_the_dome/annapolis-police-chief-cites-hoax-story-in-opposition-to-marijuana/article_97c304e5-b485-5981-9197-9b5f9f5f97e7.html
oops.
DeSwiss
(27,137 posts)...but he'd have to be self-aware first. Poor thing. Probably breathed-in too much gunpowder smoke when he was younger.
- Don't laugh too hard, these are the people we entrust lethal weapons to.
K&R
jtuck004
(15,882 posts)elleng
(131,262 posts)'the deliberate, willful giving of false, misleading, or incomplete testimony under oath.' so this was not perjury unless he KNEW it was not true. Sounds like this was just IGNORANT.
jtuck004
(15,882 posts)that he couldn't recognize that headlines such as:
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Might, just possibly, not be legitimate?
(Ok, I'll give him this one: "Court Orders Justin Bieber to Stop Making Music". But that's all).
He's a police chief, head of a department that answers to one of the top elected officials, and in his entire career has never come across a competent authority that said marijuana has ever killed anyone, yet one day he reads some part of such a site as this and thinks it's so credible that he provides it as testimony to a serious group of people discussing a serious problem.
Is the whole fucking state of Maryland a bunch of morons? They pay this fool to be in charge of people who carry guns around their children?
Hey,Maryland - this is for you...
A whole state full of morons...
Your explanation "'the deliberate, willful giving of false, misleading, or incomplete testimony" goes into state of mind, which I am guessing needs to be corroborated by something else, since we can't view state of mind.
And his testimony, from a police chief, head of a department, in charge of people whose very response during emergencies of all kinds mean the difference between life and death gives testimony that contradicts every year of experience he has had...
That sure seems like perjury to me, but yeah...
But as far as I am concerned he makes every police office in a uniform in that state look like an utter fool, and the citizens around them even more ignorant.
elleng
(131,262 posts)Surprised me hugely that Chief @ Annapolis, the State capitol, but after all, Spiro Agnew was governor a 'few' years ago, but we're in much better shape these days.
jtuck004
(15,882 posts)to a different conclusion. It's the freakin' capital city of the damn state, which I will always take as emblematic of a larger group.
elleng
(131,262 posts)Chief Pristoop holds a BS in Jurisprudence from the University of Baltimore and a JD from the University of Baltimore, School of Law, earning high honors with both degrees. He is a member of the Maryland Bar, the Heuisler Honor Society, Maryland Chiefs of Police Association, and the International Association of Chiefs of Police. Chief Pristoop is a graduate of the FBI National Academy, 215th Session, and is credited with a professional publication. Beyond all, his greatest joy and accomplishment is being the father of two wonderful children, Taylor and Alex.
Obviously he wasn't paying attention!!!
jtuck004
(15,882 posts)Sounds like he is a liar as well.
And they trust him? I wonder if there is a departmental policy against lying? I know it's a crime in most jurisdictions for a civilian to lie to an officer, and he knows that.
Not an innocent act, I don't think. But that's just me
Ash_F
(5,861 posts)marble falls
(57,405 posts)Comrade Grumpy
(13,184 posts)Because they arrest drug users and sellers?
Cops also deal with domestic violence, but that doesn't make them experts on relationships, as the statistics on their own divorce and domestic violence rates will testify.
Scuba
(53,475 posts)LiberalFighter
(51,227 posts)If cops were such great experts they wouldn't be screwing up so much.
frylock
(34,825 posts)Downwinder
(12,869 posts)"According to a report in the Rocky Mountain News, 37 people were killed across the state on Jan. 1, the first day the drug became legal for all adults to purchase. Several more are clinging onto life in local emergency rooms and are not expected to survive."
http://dailycurrant.com/2014/01/02/marijuana-overdoses-kill-37-in-colorado-on-first-day-of-legalization/
FWIW The Rocky Mountain News closed in Feb. 2009.
Timez Squarez
(262 posts)They just had a reunion last week of former Rocky staff..
sakabatou
(42,189 posts)jmowreader
(50,571 posts)Trimethylaminuria is also called "fish odor syndrome." It causes the sufferer to smell like a dead fish, but otherwise creates no problems. (Yes, I know smelling like a dead fish is problem enough.)
Hypospadias is a birth defect in which the...in crude terms, the hole in the end of your dick the urine comes out of...is formed on the underside of it.
SwankyXomb
(2,030 posts)and just smart enough to be a cop.
Garion_55
(1,915 posts)One of the those victims was 29-year-old Jesse Bruce Pinkman, a former methamphetamine dealer from Albuquerque who had recently moved to Boulder to establish a legal marijuana dispensary.
Pinkman was partying with friends when he suffered several seizures and a massive heart attack which ultimately proved to be fatal. Toxicology reports revealed that marijuana was the only drug present in his system.
"This is just a terrible tragedy," says his friend Peter. "Jesse was trying to go legit and now this happens? I guess drugs really are as dangerous as they say."
holy crap cops are stupid
MisterP
(23,730 posts)deutsey
(20,166 posts)KurtNYC
(14,549 posts)pot is pretty naive for a cop, especially.
pacog
(8 posts)n/m
RobertEarl
(13,685 posts)It can't be true. No one is that stupid. Especially not a top cop.
mainer
(12,034 posts)Pinkman was partying with friends when he suffered several seizures and a massive heart attack which ultimately proved to be fatal. Toxicology reports revealed that marijuana was the only drug present in his system.
"This is just a terrible tragedy," says his friend Peter. "Jesse was trying to go legit and now this happens? I guess drugs really are as dangerous as they say."
OMG, the Daily Currant piece is a hoot. And this police chief is a moron.
seveneyes
(4,631 posts)A group of lawyers need to do what it takes to remove this scourge of justice. Voters should be outraged.
LibertyLover
(4,788 posts)The man is an embarassment and a fool.