2 Chainz vs. Nancy Grace: Fight!

Oh, Nancy.

Recently, Nancy Grace invited famous rapper, 2 Chainz, on her show to discuss marijuana. No doubt, Grace picked 2 Chainz because he’s a known cannabis user and assumed he would be an easy target which she could festoon with lots of yelling and specious information. Mostly yelling. However, 2 Chainz, is not the silly stoner he pretends to be on stage. He attended college on an academic/basketball scholarship and maintained a 4.0 throughout.

Grace shows 2 Chainz a video she found depicting a mother forcing her 2 year old child to smoke pot and then repeatedly yell-asks the rapper why he still supports marijuana legalization. Her claim, buried somewhere beneath the spittle and yelling (did I mention the yelling?), is that if/when cannabis is legalized, everyone (including child abusers) will have “unlimited access to pot.”

She goes on to insinuate that legalized weed will be something you can just go pick up from the grocery store, like orange juice, and that people can just order it up, like a pizza.

In response, 2 Chainz calmly states, “I’m not sure if you know, but everybody has the ability to get their hands on pot right now, whether it’s legal or not.” In regards to the toddler smoking weed, the rapper says he doesn’t even give his young daughter caffeine, let alone weed.

2 Chainz says to Grace, “You have kids, right? It’s about governing your own household.” Then he says to her that it’s not fair or accurate to classify all stoners under one umbrella and that cannabis did not make that mother force her child to get high. “Anybody that loves their kid knows not to put them in harm’s way. I don’t agree with [what] that [mother did] at all. She may have a mental illness… something deeper than a joint.”

He makes a comment about how tax dollars are wasted on persecuting low-level cannabis offenders and how a conviction can ruin your life and set you on a bad path. He states that a conviction makes it hard to get a job, a home loan, etc. To which Grace gasses, “If you want to qualify for a home loan, why not just not smoke pot?”

It really is worth watching the short video. Not only is it nice to see 2 Chainz demolish Grace (he’s wearing sunglasses and a cardigan), Grace provides a great example of the inaccurate and closed minded perspective that we are up against. 2 Chainz was very calm and respectful, which is something I’m not sure I would have been able to pull off listening to that harpy.

For my own thoughts, I want to address Grace’s ridiculous notion that legalized weed will be something that “everybody will have unlimited access to.” First of all, that’s not what it means. Legal weed doesn’t mean you can go to Safeway and get a baggie of indica in the bulk foods aisle next to walnuts and raisins, nor is it something you can order up like a pizza. Legal weed is likely harder to get your hands on than illicit weed simply due to the fact that is regulated, taxed and tracked.

Also, something that neither Grace or 2 Chainz mentioned, was the sheer ubiquity of alcohol. Grace makes a huge fuss about a mother giving weed to her toddler. Yes, that’s a horrible thing to do, but no matter how much weed that child consumed, she would still wake up the next day and (more than likely) not be too worse for the wear. What if that mother had been forcing her child to take shots of whiskey? That kid could have easily died. Easily. Yet we don’t hear Ms. Nancy climbing a light house to decry the evils of booze.

This is the hypocrisy that fills my mouth with ash. I am beyond tired of listening to these walking ass-cancers (that means people like you, Nancy), shit their pants over the “downfall of America” if cannabis become legal when you hear no mention at all about sending alcohol back to prohibition. Or cigarettes, for that matter.

You cannot claim that safety and public health are your main concerns for being anti-weed unless you are also anti-alcohol and tobacco. You might as well state that nail files should be illegal while doing nothing to stop firearms.

I want fully legal weed for many reasons. Today, I added a new one: bothering Nancy Grace.

If you can stand her yelling, check out the video of the interview below: