Tommy Chong sports Free Marc Emery t-shirt everywhere

wow, he has to tell the kids to leave the room cause we're gonna be talking about pot

Fascist is the only word for the tactics employed by the US government in their targeting of Marc as an activist fund source.

Bill needs a joint

ahaha Bill O'Reilly is such a prick

First off, why would my children EVER watch the O'Reily Factor? There are episodes that have more smut on the show than an episode of Melrose's Place.

Second, Medical Marijuana is not a "ruse". It's only a "ruse" to those adhering to the standards that William Randolph Hearst and Henry Anslinger falsely propagated over 70 years ago. Cannabis has been shown to help ease many ailments over the years. I would like to see Bill'O tell Irvin Rosenfield that the plant that has helped him so much is a "ruse" (which is why he probably has never been booked on these shows; he's a good example of how marijuana HELPS people).

Third, I like how he assumes that "hardcore" drug users "sell pot to kids to buy harder drugs", therefore attempting to link marijuana to other drugs in a "gateway drug" fashion. Under that umbrella of assumptions, I could say that "hardcore drinkers" buy underage kids alcohol to buy "hard drugs", and that we should outlaw alcohol because it is a "gateway drug" (yes, alcohol is a drug; do not let it's mass appeal fool you).

Lastly, it sounds like their answers (particularly Tommy Chong's answers) have been edited somewhat. Perhaps it was for time, but perhaps it was for content. I have no problem believing that the Factor wants to demonize pot. So if it can paint any proponents of pot use as irresponsible or lacking of "proper morals and values", they will do so at the expense of manipulating a person's words. It wouldn't be the first or last time it was done by someone for Fox News.

Overall, Bill is trying to "think about the children". But if he was thinking about the children, he would realize that legalization and regulation is safer and would put less cannabis in the hands of children. The weed that does fall into the hands of the underaged would be free of any other drugs it could be laced with due to recieving it through illegal means, and it would be more difficult to access as opposed to going out on the street corner and buying it from your local dealer. By advocating cannabis to stay illegal, he is inadvertently advocating that ease of access for young kids who he doesn't want to access it. It's a self-defeating mindset that he is passing onto his viewers.

For the life of me, I cannot rationally understand how something so harmless as cannabis has remained illegal and continually demonized, but something as destructive as Methamphetamine is legal by prescription. Perhaps the medical and pharmaceutical industry does not have our best interests at heart, let alone our children...

Almost! Chong you're slipping man!!

There are many 'adults' in America, as well as children. Using 'the children' as an excuse to keep cannabis Schedule I, is an 'Assault on Reason' and us. We teach our children (or we should) about all the things they should not do, before they are old enough. The classification of cannabis is forcing many 'adult' Americans to teach their children 'do as I say, not as I do', while they are trying to teach them right from wrong. That just seems wrong and counter productive.

I have not heard any cannabis activists support cannabis for children, except for medical purposes. Spinning 'children' is wrong.

I've met Marc twice in the last year as he did a tour across Canada in support of the decriminalization of marijuana. He is nothing short of inspirational... stop making criminals of us!