AIM: Party person plotted AARP pot poll Working with the Media Awareness Project of DrugSense, I've become accutely aware of press bias on drug issues. However, I can't buy into this column by Accuracy in Media, the right-wing watchdogs of journalism.
The column focuses on the recently released AARP poll showing that a majority of older Americans support a patient's right to use medical marijuana. But instead of examining the media coverage of the poll, the column finds a conspiracy of one working to undermine the strong anti-drug sentiments of seniors. You see, there is an employee of AARP's magazine who once worked for ... High Times!
Therefore, grandmas and grandpas everywhere were duped by the poll.
Or something like that:
With the assistance of Jeanette McDougal of Drug Watch International, anti-drug activists Joyce Nalepka and Dee Rathbone uncovered the Dwyer connection when they read how AARP had "decided to study" the issue of "medical marijuana." They said, "To those of us who've known for years that High Times magazine is a virtual market place for all things pro-drug, including marijuana seeds, mushroom spores, and drug paraphernalia, we had to wonder how many grandparents who participated in this AARP poll were aware what they were voting to support. We suspect very few have any idea. Grandparents are the most anti-drug segment of our society."
Perhaps this is why seniors have been targeted with a poll that is being used to push dope.
[Emphasis added.]
Think of it as the new gateway theory. Maybe public opinion polls about drugs should carry a warning:
Answering questions may turn you too into a raving legalizer, just like those permissive old nutcakes at AARP!!!
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