Legalise it!

Since the debate around the legalisation of marijuana is still going on in Europe as well as the United States, I would like to share a video in which Bill O'Reilly's position is arguably questionable.

As his usual standpoint on the War on Drugs is known to all watching Fox News on a regular basis, he doesn't seem to have any opinion at all in this show. As satirically pointed out by the producer of the video Kyle Kulinski, O'Reilly changes between three positions concerning the drug issue. 

First of all, he pretends to be fully against legalisation calling the dangers for young children the reason (which is then torn to pieces by Mary Katharine Ham). He then claims to be content with adults smoking weed, which certainly contradicts his prior statement completely. Towards the end, the host even alludes to decriminalising marijuana, which, therefore, represents another, contrasting attitude towards the issue. 

Concerning the state Colorado, which legalised the medical and recreational use of cannabis in 2012/2013, the legalisation is said to have caused rather good side-effects in general.

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Obviously, these statistics have to be treated with caution since they were published by a pro-legalisation website. Still, most of the sources I found regarded the new policies as a success in saving taxes for court trials and spending them for better purposes. 

All in all, having in mind the delicacy of the topic, one should be allowed to favour or to be against a legalisation. Nevertheless, as a talk show host who normally shares a rather straight and unalterable opinion on anything, one should definitely deliver a better performance than O'Reilly did in 2014...