http://reason.com/blog/2014/02/25/citing-joke-annapolis-police-chief-testi (http://reason.com/blog/2014/02/25/citing-joke-annapolis-police-chief-testi)
QuoteTestifying against marijuana legalization before the Maryland legislature today, Annapolis Police Chief Michael Pristoop warned of the potentially lethal consequences. "The first day of legalization, that's when Colorado experienced 37 deaths that day from overdose on marijuana," Pristoop told the Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee. "I remember the first day it was decriminalized there were 37 deaths."
As Sen. Jamie Raskin (D-Montgomery) quickly pointed out, what Pristoop actually remembered was a joke story at The Daily Currant...
Pristoop seemed taken aback that something he had seen in print might not be the literal truth. "If it was a misquote," he told Raskin, "then I'll stand behind the mistake. But I'm holding on to information I was provided."
Quote from: FSBlueApocalypse on February 25, 2014, 06:26:20 PM
http://reason.com/blog/2014/02/25/citing-joke-annapolis-police-chief-testi (http://reason.com/blog/2014/02/25/citing-joke-annapolis-police-chief-testi)
I second this nomination. Glad I'm a ways away from that city. >.>