Their final question of the evening was "Should Marijuana be legalized?" and you can go to their website and respond.
With that kind of question, one would think part of the program would be relevant to enlightening the American People to that issue and of course you would be disappointed if you assumed such a thing.
They didn't discuss the pros; if there any and cons of the insane, War on Drugs and/or how many lives and families have been destroyed by that dysfunctional policy.
They never mentioned the United States breaking the world record by having the largest number of it's own citizens in prison, with hundreds of thousands of them in for non-violent possession offenses.
They never discussed the issue from an educational, medical, personal privacy or Constitutional point of view.
They didn't have any knowledgeable people on to discuss or even debate among them selves the pros and cons of legalizing Marijuana from an economic or social justice point of view.
They didn't cover the Netherlands; experience or explain how they have a lower of percentage of their citizens to smoke Marijuana than other nations of Europe where it's illegal.
Instead Nightline chose to use the first segment of their program to cover the devastated nation of Afghanistan; having suffered from near 30 years of warfare, where they openly smoke opium in huts or caves and how children have tested positive from second hand smoke, if this seems vaguely deja vu, just remember 9/11/Saddam Hussein. That's called a memory stack by emotionally tying one irrelevant issue to another as a means to either remember a script or in this case to cynically manipulate the American Peoples' deliberative process.
The next time you watch ABC “News” or Nightline count the number of times legal drugs are pushed on the people for every ailment under the sun to truly appreciate their hypocrisy.
And finally if you want to know why the U.S. is "#1" on so many critical issues or measurements, you can thank corporate media propaganda programs like Nightline for consistently selling the American Peoples' best interests down the river.
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