America's Newsroom co-anchor Bill Hemmer is claiming a person can get a contact high from marijuana by simply going to his local coffee shop.
The Fox host made the remark in an attempt to amplify how President Joe Biden is "destroying America."
"If you want to legalize this on the federal level, I would suggest the lawmakers in Washington, D.C. come to my neighborhood first and say, is this what you want all of America to be? Because you'll get a contact high going to the coffee shop," Hemmer said.
Fox News Radio host Jimmy Failla also chimed in.
"It's everywhere. It's everywhere you go and the quality of life deterioration that comes with issue is what no one talks about," said Failla. "Yeah, it's just weed. It's not quite heroin. It's not quite fentanyl. I understand. But there's an overall decay in the neighborhood, almost similar to, like, 'broken windows' policing -- when you start with a lowered standard, you see everything around it increase exponentially. And that's what pot has brought. It's just filthy laziness."
Their comments come after the president's move to pardon thousands of people with federal charges for simple possession of marijuana.
"Sending people to prison for possessing marijuana has upended too many lives and incarcerated people for conduct that many states no longer prohibit," said Biden. "Criminal records for marijuana possession have also imposed needless barriers to employment, housing, and educational opportunities."
The president also encouraged all governors to do the same with regard to state offenses.
"Just as no one should be in a federal prison solely due to the possession of marijuana, no one should be in a local jail or state prison for that reason, either," he said. "Too many lives have been upended because of our failed approach to marijuana. It’s time that we right these wrongs."
According to a November 2021 Gallup poll, 68% of Americans support legalizing marijuana, on par with a record high from 2020.
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