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Marijuana is legal in some capacity, whether medicinally or recreationally, in more than half of the United States. But according to conservative columnist Ann Coulter, legalization of the plant is destroying the country, andwhats worse, it makes people retarded. Thats what The New York Times best-selling author had to say about cannabis while speaking at the nonpartisan political eventPoliticon on Saturday.

Coulter, who has a longstanding history of making controversial remarks, debated with Ana Kasparian, a marijuana advocate and correspondent for the progressive news mediaoutlet The Young Turks, on various topics, includingthe legality of marijuana in the U.S. While sharing her views on legal pot, 55-year-old Coulter made a number of inflammatory comments regarding marijuana, including claims that nobody goes to prison for [pot] possession.

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It all started when Kasparian brought up the racial disparities surrounding marijuana charges, pointing out that African-Americans are often arrested and sentenced at much higher rates for marijuana use and possession compared with whites committing similar offenses.

I dont care if youre black, white, Asian, Latinodoesnt matter. You shouldnt be prosecuted for marijuana possession. Thats a gigantic waste of our resources, Kasparian, 31, said.

Coulter refuted her panel mate's comment and started speaking about a study she allegedly read that claimed black people lie about their marijuana use more than other races.

There have been further studies where they actually drug test the person after asking Do you smoke pot, or have you smoked pot in the last week? and it turns out theres a racial difference in telling the truth on Did you smoke pot? Blacks were about 10 times more likely to lie and say they hadnt smoked pot, Coulter said.

She was unable to citethe studys origin, where it had been published or any other information regarding the researchers of the study, but Coulter told the moderator, journalist and author Tour, that she would email him the study. However, a different study, conducted by the National Institutes of Health in 2008, found that more peopleregardless of raceself-reported marijuana use than they actually tested positive for in a hair-strand drug test.

As for possession arrests and sentences, Coulter advanced her claim that no one actually serves time for possessing marijuana.

No, I know youre all potheads, and youre gonna have trouble following what Im about to say, but almost 90 percent of people in prison are in prison as a result of a plea bargain. No one gets arrested and tried for possession of marijuana. But if they happen to have marijuana on them thats what they plea it down. But youre not going to prison for that, youre going to prison because you held up a liquor store with a sawed-off shotgun, and they found pot on you, she said.

According to the American Civil Liberties Union, more than 8.2 million people were arrested on marijuana charges between 2001 and 2010. Eighty-eight percent of the arrests were merely on possession alone. A separate study released by the National Registry of Exonerations in March said that African-Americans were five times as likely to face jail time for simple drug possession, including marijuana, compared with white offenders of the same crime.

When asked if marijuana should be made legal in the states, Coulter, who obviously disapproved, tried to connect the herbal substance to mental disabilities, which she then seemed to link to immigrants who work as busboys in restaurants.

No. You can legalize all the drugs you want once there isnt a welfare state, but no, she said. Marijuana makes people retarded, especially when theyre young. Weve got enough busboys. Were bringing in busboys by the million through our immigration policy. We do not need a country of busboys. Were destroying the country.

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Ann Coulter was shouted down by brownshirted protesters over the weekend while she tried to lead a panel on campus free speech.

According to PJ Media, the protesters stood in front of their seats dressed as members of the Nazi SA and shouted their protests over the panel conversation until chants of USA drowned them out, after which the Nazis were ushered out of the room.

"That's not how one wins an argument. Anyone can yell."

[RELATED: Defiant conservatives invite Coulter to Berkeley after riots]

When the panel resumed, two more protesters also began chanting and once again were silenced by pro-Trump chanting that drowned out the protest. Finally, the demonstrators were booted from the room, ending the ruckus.

Hearing about protesters disrupting @AnnCoulter at @Politicon, CNNs Jake Tapper tweeted after the event. That's not how one wins an argument. Anyone can yell.

Coulter, according to attendees, later stated that she was glad that liberal protesters showed up in Nazi outfits, being that it is their natural garb.

[RELATED: UC Berkeley will not silence conservatives]

The panel also featured Axios Vice President Evan Ryan, stand-up comic Gregg Proops, Townhall.com Political Editor Guy Benson, and tech culture journalist Xeni Jardin, along with Coulter, and was reportedly well-received by spectators despite the interruptions.

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A Politicon discussion featuring conservative pundit and author Ann Coulter was disrupted over the weekend by protesters dressed as Nazis.

Ms. Coulter was participating Saturday in a panel discussion, titled Censorship on Campus, at the annual convention in Pasadena, California, when she was interrupted by a man and a woman wearing swastikas and throwing Nazi salutes, a local CBS affiliate reported.

Heil Trump! Heil Hitler, the woman screamed as she was being escorted out of the event, according to a video of the incident. Why are you taking me away? I came to see my Nazi leader, Ann Coulter!

CBS posted video of a second interruption when two other protesters, who were not dressed like Nazis, were escorted out of the event. Both disruptions reportedly happened within the first 15 minutes of the discussion.

CNNs Jake Tapper scolded the protesters in a tweet Saturday evening.

Hearing about protestors disrupting @AnnCoulter at @Politicon. Thats not how one wins an argument. Anyone can yell, he wrote.

The Censorship on Campuspanel also featured Axios Vice President Evan Ryan, standup comic Gregg Proops, Townhall.com Political Editor Guy Benson and tech culture journalist Xeni Jardin, PJ Mediareported.

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Published: Jul 31, 2017, 1:04 pm Updated: Jul 31, 2017, 1:26 pm

By Polly Washburn, The Cannabist Staff

At the non-partisan political panel marathon Politicon this weekend, columnist Ann Coulter made some remarkable claims about marijuana during a debate with Ana Kasparian.

The topic turned to criminal justice and marijuana toward the end of a discussion featuring Coulter and Kasparian of The Young Turks, a progressive new-media news outlet, and moderated by journalist Tour.

I love marijuana, Kasparian said before making the point that despite similar usage rates, African Americans are arrested and prosecuted for weed at much higher rates than their white counterparts.

I dont care if youre black, white, Asian, Latino, doesnt matter, you shouldnt be prosecuted for marijuana possession. Thats a gigantic waste of our resources, she added.

Coulter rebutted both parts of Kasparians argument with a set of inflammatory statements.

There have been further studies where they actually drug test the person after asking Do you smoke pot, or have you smoked pot in the last week? and it turns out theres a racial difference in telling the truth on did you smoke pot? Blacks were about ten times more likely to lie and say they hadnt smoked pot, she claimed.

It is unclear what study Coulter is referring to the conservative commentator said she would email the study to moderator Tour. (The Cannabist will link to the study if it surfaces.)

An NIH study from 2008 showed more people self-reported marijuana use (15.4%) than tested positive in a hair test (14.3%). In terms of racial disparity on self-reporting, the study shows the opposite of what Coulter was claiming: Apparent overestimate of marijuana by self-report (i.e., self-report was positive and hair test was negative) was associated with being African American.

Coulter added to her claims with, Nobody goes to prison for possession.

When the crowd booed this statement, she responded: No, I know youre all potheads, and youre gonna have trouble following what Im about to say, but almost 90 percent of people in prison are in prison as a result of a plea bargain. No one gets arrested and tried for possession of marijuana but if they happen to have marijuana on them thats what they plea it down But youre not going to prison for that, youre going to prison because you held up a liquor store with a sawed-off shotgun, and they found pot on you.

(This Louisiana man, for one, might disagree with her, after being sentenced for 18 years for possession of 18 grams of weed.)

Kasparian jumped in, citing her own TEDx talk on the subject, How To Fix Americas Broken Justice System.

She summarized the portion of her talk on the privatization of prisons:

In the 1980s, because of Republican leadership, we passed a bunch of draconian laws specifically in regard to marijuana. And so our prison systems all of a sudden were just filled with people who got caught with possession of pot Entrepreneurs see that theres some you know theres an entrepreneurial opportunity here, and so you have the emergence of Corrections Corporation of America and Geo Group. Guess what they did? Theyre like, give us your nonviolent drug offenders and make us rich so your tax dollars arent really going to welfare recipients Theyre going to private industries like private prisons who have a vested interest to criminalize nonviolent individuals, particularly those who get caught with drugs.

Tour then asked Coulter if marijuana should be legal.

No. You can legalize all the drugs you want once there isnt a welfare state, but no, she said. Marijuana makes people retarded, especially when theyre young. Weve got enough bus boys. Were bringing in bus boys by the million through our immigration policy. We do not need a country of bus boys. Were destroying the country.

Kasparian responded to the same question, Absolutely. In fact, I wish you (Coulter) would smoke a joint.

Cannabis has been a punching bag for conservative firebrand Coulter for several years.

During an October 2015 Democratic presidential debate, Sen. Bernie Sanders lamented that CEOs on Wall Street walk away from financial crimes while we are imprisoning or giving jail sentences to young people who are smoking marijuana.

Coulter live tweeted:

Marijuana came up in a January 2014 interview with CNNs Piers Morgan during which Coulter detailed her personal woes with a pool cleaner she claimed was a marijuana user:

You cant get anything done with a pothead, she said. They cant perform any useful jobs.

In November 2009, she debated two of weeds most famous advocates, Richard Cheech Marin and Tommy Chong, on Fox News. Responding to their plea to treat marijuana like alcohol she said, There are a lot of problems with alcohol, so we dont want two of them.

Polly joined The Cannabist in December 2016 as a digital producer. She has been creating print, web and video content for a couple of decades. She returned to her home town of Denver in 2012 after living in eleven other cities in four countries, and...

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New York Timesbest-selling author, columnist, and speaker Ann Coulter was participating in a panel discussion titled "Censorship on Campus" at Politicon, an annual "non-partisan" convention that brings people of all stripes together to see their favorite pundits, politicians and more.

But before she could get in a word, two protestors dressed as Nazis started shouting her down in an effort to silence her.

It took some time for the disruptive individuals to be booted out of the room. It didn't appear that the event's organizers were prepared for this sort of thing to happen.

PJ Media was on the scene as it all unfolded.

It didn't end there.

Two more protestors against Coulter, not dressed like the first pair,were also escorted out of the room shortly after the first two individuals.

The Los Angeles affiliate for CBS News captured some of ruckus in this video:

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