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Colbert discusses New York Governor Cuomo's desire to decriminalize marijuana so that less minorities are arrested for marijuana possession. Colbert uses satire to talk about the idea that marijuana leads to harder drugs. He uses other names for marijuana as if they were different drugs when in fact they are the same. He also makes the claim that marijuana causes paranoia.
According to University of Washington's Alcohol and Drug Abuse Institute, that claim is true. Colbert mentioned that Cuomo wants to decriminalize marijuana because he believes it would stop minorities from getting arrested. That claim was true as well. According to the Marijuana Policy Project, "Only 11% of Americans who have used marijuana are black, 10% are Hispanic, and 74% are white — a rough match with each group’s share of the U.S. population. But African-Americans represent almost 32% of all marijuana arrests, and 44% of those convicted for drug offenses." In this video, there is more truth than truthiness.
Video #2
Analysis
In this video, Colbert uses satire to poke fun at the media’s perception that young people are more likely to vote because the option to legalize marijuana was on the ballot during the 2012 election in Colorado, Ohio, and Michigan. Colbert is saying that young people might go out and vote, but that the marijuana initiative will provoke them more to vote. Colbert makes the idea sound ridiculous and uses framing to cultivate his viewers into agreeing with him. In this video he uses more truthiness rather than truth.
Video #3
Analysis:
In this video Jon Stewart, with the help of Al Madrigal, discusses the rise of marijuana among the elderly. The two men use satire to discuss both sides of the idea by interviewing two men--an elderly supporter of medical marijuana and a priest who is against legalizing marijuana for health issues among the elderly. They frame the story in a way that they make fun of the ideas that the two men have about the topic, leaning more toward the pro-legalization side. Madrigal lists things that medical marijuana can be used for and this website shows that those claims are true. The way Stewart and Madrigal frame the story cultivates the viewer into thinking that legalization of medical marijuana is a joke especially among the elderly. The preacher claims that marijuana makes you useless, lazy, and impaired. Although marijuana does make you lazy and impaired, it cannot make you completely useless.
Video #4
In this clip Stewart talks about the legalization of marijuana in the states of Colorado and Washington. He then goes on to present a clip of a young man in the legalization battle. Stewart replays the clip in which the young man states "I'm going to smoke a lot of weed tonight! WOOO!" Implying that people who smoke weed are going to continue to smoke weed whether or not the bill passed. Then he shows a clip between two news anchors who casually discuss marijuana, mentioning Cheetos. He then compares the NBC cast to Fox where one of the anchors declares: "What is going to stop them from getting all potted up on weed and getting behind the wheel." According to this source drivers are twice as likely to get into a crash while under the influence of marijuana. Stewart then cuts to several clips where anchors are in giggles over the topic. Thus proving that no one can take the issue seriously. There is more truthiness in this video clip than truth.
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