They're All Dying From Pot Overdoses, Really They Are!
Drug warrior testifying before a Maryland State Senate marijuana legalization hearing lays it out -- and gets laid out. Frederick Kunkle writes in the WaPo:

Annapolis Police Chief Michael A. Pristoop thought he came prepared when he testified before a Maryland State Senate panel on Tuesday about the perils of legalizing marijuana.

In researching his testimony against two bills before the Judicial Proceedings Committee, Pristoop said, he had found a news article to illustrate the risks of legalization: 37 people in Colorado, he said, had died of marijuana overdoses on the very day that the state legalized pot.

"When he said it, everyone in the room dropped their laptops," Sen. Jamie B. Raskin (D-Montgomery) said in an e-mail.

Trouble is, the facts were about as close to the truth as oregano is to pot. After a quick Google search on his laptop, [State Senator Jamin] Raskin--the sponsor of the legalization bill that was the subject of the Senate hearing--advised the chief that the Colorado overdose story, despite its deadpan delivery, had been made up for laughs by The Daily Currant, an online comedy magazine.

More recently in The Daily Current: Girls Scouts in Colorado Selling Marijuana Thin Mints. Oh, the ha-ha-horror, the horror!

via @catoinstitute