Thank you for joining me on my humble blog. Be gentle, it's my first time. We begin our dig through the news tonight in the Great White North... or at least, the American part.
Here's a video of her quitting on air... try to ignore the laughing in the background:
Charlo is apparently the owner and chief operator of the Alaska Cannabis Club. According to their website the Alaska Cannabis Club is a "medical marijuana collective organized to serve patients throughout Alaska." Providing "safe access to a wide variety of medication, including dried herbs, medibles and soon, concentrates." Their mission statement defends medical pot users in Alaska, claiming that the state government is "failing medical pot users" and "forcing them to feed the black market."
Far from being the average medical dispensary, the A.C.C. provides a variety of services through its user-friendly website, including connections with other club members, tools and tips for starting your own grow-op and even the connections necessary to sample new product as part of their quality control policy. Certain club members can sample the latest batch of product getting to the customer. These privileged few comprise the distribution network of the Alaska Cannabis club; a client with a medical card contacts the club for information on individuals with product, and a transaction is presumably arranged.
An Interview with Fox News' own Jonathon Hunt went online today in which Mr. Hunt confronts Ms. Green about her abrupt exit from her career as a reporter.
Throughout the interview, Hunt asks pointedly focused questions involving Greene's public resignation, harping mostly on the fact that she would dare utter an expletive on live TV. Charlo delivers her explanation for quitting in such a manner, and goes on to explain that she felt her story would never reach the audience she intended if she had simply "put in her two weeks."
In his intro, Hunt refers to Ballot Measure 2. Up for vote in Alaska come November, Ballot Measure 2 would legalize the possession of up to an ounce of marijuana or 6 plants by people 21 and older. After explaining her motives for quitting her job on air, Greene addresses the fact that she deemed her motives necessary because of slipping support for Measure 2 in Alaska, a result of what she claims was "fear mongering" by the No on 2 Campaign, an organization she claims is funded in large part by Big Alcohol. No sooner does she attempt to finish her comment on the influence of a large wealthy corporate lobbying interest than Hunt interjects with questions backpedaling to the point of her having dropped the F-bomb on air, taking attention away from the issue at hand.
Hunt goes on to ask snide questions about how she had embarrassed her station, even going so far as to debate the dictionary definition of the word with her. When asked if she thought she had influenced her cause in a negative way, Greene responded with a resounding "No," allowing that the conversation being had at the moment was proof enough that she had succeeded in bringing attention to her cause, calling a vote for ballot measure 2 a "vote for liberty." In the end, Greene finishes her statement with a quote that rings true with her argument: "People are finally looking into the facts, instead of just accepting what some talking head is telling them is right and wrong for them. We're Americans, we decide what is right and wrong for us."
In my estimation this is blatant sensationalism committed by a right-leaning reporter attempting to demonize a woman for speaking her mind and using a word (albeit taboo) used by millions of Americans daily. The real focus of this interview should have centered around the cause worth losing a job for; marijuana reform. Although Jonathon Hunt may not see it as a positive, Charlo Greene has absolutely brought attention to her cause.
