0 laura ingraham takes it from here. high laura. >> how are you doing, judge? you did a great job. is at 5:00? it's 5:00 somewhere. >> your time it's 10:00. >> got to stay up late. great job and great to see you as always. i am laura ingraham and this is jan one on a busy tuesday night. the united states of fear is the focus of tonight angle. the press and the party that they represent want you to be afraid. i am talking very afraid. covid sub variants are here. they are super-duper contagious. consider changing your travel plans if you are thinking of attending big events. i can tell you it's more variance specifically subareas of omicron circulating and more of us are vulnerable for reinfection. >> we are looking at the fall and winter and preparing for a variety of scenarios. this is difficult if we get a resurgence of the infection. >> very, very scary. by the way, if you happen to be african-american they want you to be afraid because they will tell you you will be indiscriminately killed for no reason other then the color of your skin. it's an epidemic out there of police involved shooting. >> what exactly will it take to stop this level of execution style killing of black men and black women at the hands of law enforcement? >> this needs to be at the top of the list for the attorney general to address white supremacy and those organizations in law enforcement and outside of law enforcement around the country that are targeting black and brown people. dimmick that's an ugly lie. the truth is the suspects do not resist arrest. they don't run away and they don't turn and look like the fireman or police. the chance of being injured, let alone shot by a police officer is infinitely small. but still they want you afraid and not trusting of anyone in uniform ever. and of course they want you afraid of climate change. hello. i have children when the planet will burn up and flood? you need to rethink your climate. >> climate is code red. we have to take action. >> we have so little time. we need to throw everything at it that we can. >> they want you so panicked that in the end you will be totally fine with traveling less, paying $6 or $7 or $10 a gallon for gas. then you can blame gas station owners were price gouging. over the weekend president biden tweeted, a comment for mostly mom-and-pop shops that are just trying to get by now, saying this is a time of global war and global pair. bring down the price you are paying at the pump. and do it now. if this is biden's answer to high energy prices, the man is totally out of gas. they also want you afraid of speaking your mind because if you do you could lose your job, lose your promotion, lose your board seat, lose your spot in college and even a position in the u.s. military. chiller posted a media posting military leaders were mistakes made during the withdrawal from afghanistan and demanding accountability he was relieved of duty. today's decision to stop publishing six dr. seuss books comes after they have been criticized for spreading racist images. spent there's a small but growing revolt of artists scrubbing their music from the platform. they took issue with the joe rogan experience. >> the university of virginia said it disenrolled 49 students who signed up for classes but then failed to provide a vaccine card. >> after the horror that was visited upon highland park yesterday, they even want you afraid of attending patriotic celebrations. a fourth of july tradition is just too dangerous going forward. >> from the showing that there are no holidays for mass shootings in america. >> we have to do something now. no community is safe. no community is safe. >> a wealthy suburb of chicago, of maybe the quintessential american city in the heartland, on the 4th of july, at a parade. if you are not safe there, where are you safe? >> okay. the shooting happens every weekend by the way in chicago, st. louis, baltimore. they don't have the freaked out view on their faces. because it's highland park, yeah. using this evil act to wipe out patriotic traditions which we know is ultimately going on is a new low even for the left. of course, they want you also afraid to own a gun or to apply for a concealed carry permit because they will make sure that your name and your address leaks accidentally as it did in california. but instead of selling fear and division, wouldn't it be nice if we all began to focus on solutions? don't people want solutions? i sense they do. on the mass shooting in illinois, indications are that robert crime was a regular pot user. one look at him and to the untrained eye he looks like a complete psychotic. i've never seen anyone look like that. what can regular pot use trigger in young men in particular? psychosis and other violent personality issues. police say that in 2019 they were called to the shooters home twice. the first was on april 2019 after a reported suicide attempt and the second was in september 2019 after receiving a call from a family member who said he was threatening to kill everyone. police removed 60 knives, a dagger and a sword from the house but they say there was no probable cause to make an arrest at the time. just run-of-the-mill behavior, i guess. much of the online presence points to simmering psychosis. under the stage name a week the wrapper he posted a disturbing music video back in 2021 that featured a stick figure drawing wearing a tactical gear and carrying a rifle. a newspaper clipping about lee harvey oswald who associated assassinated jfk. we has been planning the attack for weeks and disguised himself as a woman to get away. all the signs were there. but in a positive development over the past few weeks, the media seem to be recognizing the danger of sustained high thc content in young people, regular use among young people. it only took them four years to catch up to what the science and er nurses and actors were screaming about in places like colorado and california. they saw it with their own eyes. one rigorous study found that the risk of having psychotic disorder was five times higher among daily high potency cannabis users in europe and brazil than those who had never used it. doctor sharon levy from boston children's told told the paper the younger you are the more vulnerable your brain is to developing these problems. for some reason, just thinking about all these horrific acts of evil that have been perpetrated in the american public. we still weeks later don't have a toxicology report from the uvalde mask shooter despite earlier reports that he was a regular weed user. why the delay? congress rushed to pass this gun-control bill in the aftermath of the heinous shooting, but where's the demand for answers on other key aspects of the case? no curiosity there whatsoever? let me tell you this. the marijuana industry is making billions on the lie that weed is fine, no big deal. even for young people, healthy people, it could be healthy for you, in fact. no one is arguing, nor have i, that most people who use high thc products end up as violent psychotics. that's ridiculous. but there is mounting scientific evidence of the increase in violent behavior among young people and regular sustained cannabis use. since the media wants to spend time scaring people, focus on scaring young people away from what? what would make sense? what would be helpful? scare them away from using this drug as young people. but i will tell you, the pot industry is extremely well-funded. if it's protected by some high placed republicans. former house speaker jon weiner saw a quick buck to be made and joined an advisory board after being against legalizing pot. and democrats like new york city mayor eric adams says the extra tax revenue from pot is great for him. it's disgusting when you visit new york. big weed uses its well-paid pot pushing media allies in social media influencers to trash anyone who questions the mad rush to legalization. i can tell you this. i don't give a rip. they trash me morning, noon and night. they are pushing pot on our kids. we are pushing for answers and accountability. these are the eyes of some of the mass killers who have reportedly been regular pot users. look at them. those in politics and in the media who devote their time and energy to fear mongering on fake issues while covering up the truth about the growing scourge of violent psychosis in our young people, they have to be called out. they have to be defeated. and then the public has to be educated. and parents, this means you need to get into the game. this means you understanding that this can happen to you and your family no matter how wealthy you are, how well-adjusted you are, how mature and to gather your children seem. it's time to call out the phonies and call in the worriers for common sense. and that's the angle. joining me now is doctor ken for an editor and evidence medicine. he is also on the board of directors for the international academy on the science and impact of cannabis. what am i getting wrong here? >> thank you, laura, for having me. you are not getting anything wrong, to be honest. i believe that it's important that the public understands that the definition of high potency thc boils down to any products that are more than 10% thc, which currently doesn't exist in the state of colorado where the average smoke about 17% to 20% thc and then you get into concentrates that are pushing 85% to 99% sometimes claiming 100% thc products. the science is still trying to catch up to the industry because these products are being generated and allowed access to our youth without any real guardrails. you talked about the mayor wanting suicide. that's the prevalent item in team suicide in colorado. >> it's interesting because the highland park mayor was actually the shooter's cub scout leader as a kid. he had this to say about him. >> i know him as somebody who was a cub scout when i was a cub scout leader. it's one of those things where you step back and say what happened? how did somebody become this angry, this hateful? somebody clearly had a mental breakdown. but i don't want to ascribe it to mental health. i want us to talk about the fact that there are weapons of war on our streets. >> doctor, at some point does this become a weapon of war, whether it's a war from south of the border or it's grown here or in another form it comes across the border from another country? we have thousands and thousands of kids who are smoking regularly before they go to school every morning. we don't know the percentage of thc and the compound. we have no idea. >> you are absolutely right. i think it's a matter of public health and safety. that was the impetus for founding our nonprofit on the international academy and the science and impact of cannabis. it's not a pardon issue. it's a public health and safety issue. our general public and even the medical community that i speak to on a regular basis doesn't have any idea about what the impact these products are having, not only on our communities but particularly on our youth who are much more vulnerable and at risk for developing addiction issues with cannabis or psychosis. we don't know the toxicology of the uvalde shooter or the most recent shooter in illinois. sometimes they may be negative. psychosis is sometimes a bridge you cannot uncross. even though the toxicology may be negative at that point in time, sometimes the psychosis persist for weeks or doesn't even come back. that's the big concern that we have as a medical community. >> doctor, this is why i love doing the show. it's a privilege every night. you taught me something i did not know. the toxicology itself can be misleading so you can have almost a clean toxicology, but the psychosis could have set in over time with previous high thc content pot use? i didn't even know that. >> absolutely. absolutely. to mac i mean, why do you think there is so much hesitancy in the medical community to speak out about this given what they are saying in places like boston children's, er and colorado and california and even the new york times times is waking up to it. >> to be honest i am disappointed in the medical community. i have been speaking on this for over 15 years. finally, we are starting to get some traction where the medical community is starting to see the impacts not only the emergency department, but in psychiatric and drug recovery programs on our roads and driving impairment. the ones that are most at risk and vulnerable or the youth. the fact that an 18-year-old can get the medical marijuana card in a matter of a minute in colorado based on my personal experience is somewhat frightening. they can still be in high school, get their medical marijuana card and become the school drug dealer. that is not hypothetical. that happens. we know and you know people that have been impacted by this. it is simply frightening. >> doctor finn, thank you for educating us tonight as always. it isn't just the new york times times warning about the potency of medical marijuana and kids. the daily mail took to the streets of california where a reported number one in five residents use cannabis regularly. they spoke to a doctor who runs the center for cannabis at ucla. she told the publication, we are seeing a lot more patients that have gone from smoking once every two months to using cannabis every day. they don't realize the harm. those that are addicted might not realize that all of their friends are the same. joining me now is alex berenson who is of course the author of tell your children the truth about marijuana, mental illness and violence. also the author of unreported truth. alex, the new york times times is slowly coming along to the realization, but the media are largely complicit and the scourge of high thc marijuana in our kids. >> they are worse than complicit. they have been encouraging this for years and years. people are starting to wake up perhaps the children of reporters and nice liberal communities like park slope or northwest dc are seeing there is children and friends of their children are getting wrecked by psychosis, paranoia and other problems and consumption of high thc, cannabis or the pure extracts can cause at a young age. people are starting to wake up. i will never forget in 2019 when tell your children came out. reading an article in the washington post that was headlined, i smoked pot with my teenage son. we are closer now. i thought to myself, this is incredible that you are pushing this on people. >> alex, a lot of parents when i bring this up with them, they roll their eyes and say that is you being you, laura. they will literally roll their eyes at me and laugh at me. i don't care. it doesn't bother me one bit. a lot of these shooters, and it looks like this kid as well, were regular pot users. period. they try to scrub it in the background. >> that is certainly true. the thing is fortunately, even in the united states in 2022, mass shootings are relatively rare. we are talking about anecdotal phenomenon. i think the increase in psychosis and other negative effects is no longer anecdotal. one of the things that we really need to do is get the kind of data in the united states and the european countries are collecting. we are terrible about collecting real data on mental illness in the united states. i can only imagine the cannabis industry will fight hard against this. we need to get this. we need the numbers so we can know just how much damage we are doing and how quickly i think that will help stop things. i do think the tide is starting to shift. when we talked in 2019 about this i thought national legalization was an inevitability. i'm not so sure that is true anymore. there are more and more parents in places like highland park and wealthy communities where parents have real influence and who never thought that this could happen to their kids are seeing the real problems. >> it is happening. thank you for your work in this regard and always being brave on the subject as many others. how financially illiterate is joe biden? 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