FOX News Doctor Claims Legalization Causes Crack Babies

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FOX News Doctor Claims Legalization Causes Crack Babies

By Barry Bard, Marijuana.com

Dr. David Samadi, who thinks cannabis consumption will lead to "crack babies".

Dr. David Samadi, who thinks cannabis consumption will lead to crack babies.

Aside from Nancy Grace and Bill O’Reilly, it’s become increasingly more rare to hear arguments against marijuana legalization from national media outlets–even FOX news. But FOX’s Medical A-Team doctor David Samadi gave us a blast from the “Reefer Madness” past this weekend, when the ill-informed doctor made some outrageous remarks against cannabis.

Samadi, who has probably never smoked, reacted oddly to the “new” news that marijuana is significantly (like over 100 times) safer than its counterparts like alcohol and cigarettes. Apparently upset and coming to grips with the reality that America is beginning to embrace legal marijuana, Samadi snapped and berated the trend:


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“They’re extrapolating a lot of these animal studies and surveys that doesn’t make a lot of sense and coming with this whole thing that pot is safer,” the doctor insisted. “Absolutely not. It’s a huge fraud.”“It actually causes heart attacks,” he added. “It increases your heart rate. And on and on.

Marijuana does not cause heart attacks; a bad hearts cause heart attacks. Cannabis can act as a trigger for anxiety and heart-related ailments, but no one has ever died from a marijuana heart attack.

“We’re seeing in Colorado that we had 13 kids that came to the emergency [room] and ended up in the ICU as a result of overdose from marijuana,” Samadi said. “Now we have crack babies coming in because pregnant women are smoking this whole marijuana business.”

What little sense Samadi was making went out the bathroom window.

“I challenge any doctors, come to my Facebook, convince me how this is healthy for you. I’m 100 percent against this.” [Raw Story]

At this point, Samadi is just looking for anyone naive enough to challenge his ill-informed message. However, real doctors and anyone with a general sense of marijuana would not give this “doctor” the light of day.

As we’ve seen from celebrity doctors ranging from CNN’s Sanjay Gupta to Dr. Oz, even the most conservative ones have started to support marijuana reform. Making guys like this sound all the more outrageous:

4 Comments

  • Helen VanBockern
    March 3, 2015

    My daughter has 4 healthy boys they all do well in school have great hearts a spirits very popular family in there community are active in sports and music. My daughter under doctor care smoked cannabis through her whole second pregnancy do to nausea and vomiting and her son second born is the largest and a genius he pulled 6 academic certificates coming out of 5th grade and is lead safety patrol 2 yrs so I know first hand he is full of #*”,+

  • scott
    March 4, 2015

    even the Surgeon General says cannabis has medical benefits. This Dr. needs his medical license revoked for perjury and lying to the People of the USA. I agree Helen My daughter is a health nut when pregnant. her 2nd daughter when she 1st got pregnant she couldn’t keep nothing down so she got a mmj card and did edibles. My granddaughter is now 4 in a private school with accelerated advancement as the childs knowledge increases they are moved up in class. She is currently in the 7 and 8 year old classes. Very intelligent advanced and my daughter isnt a crack user this guy for being a DR isn’t that bright. He needs a refresher course new scientific and medical research 101 and take DEA and sheriff association with u

  • Closet Smoker
    March 4, 2015

    Has anyone publicly called this idiot out? Time to publicly shame anyone who makes claims like this.

  • usarmyretired
    March 4, 2015

    Did he not get the memo that crack causes crack babies not Marijuana!
    And this guy says he is a medical professional.

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