Nancy Grace invited rap star 2 Chainz on her news show to discuss marijuana legalization Tuesday night, something she opposes but he's in favor of.
As Yahoo News reported, Grace opened the segment by showing YouTube videos of pot smokers allowing their young children to inhale marijuana smoke, and highlighted the death of a 3-year-old Colorado girl who died in a mobile home fire while her parents allegedly smoked pot.
"If this is legalized, then everybody is going to have unlimited access to pot. Irresponsible child abusers are going to have free access!" she told the rapper right out of the gate.
She asked him how he could see and hear horror stories involving children and marijuana, and still advocate for its legalization.
The 37-year-old rapper, born Tauheed Epps, argued that just because there are a few bad apple out there exposing their children to marijuana, they're clearly not the average pot smoker. He said the examples Grace reported on "dealt with irresponsible people."
"You can’t use these particular stories to define everyone who uses [marijuana]," he said. "You don’t have to be a genius; you don’t have to graduate from school, you don’t have to be a successful artist or entertainer to know that giving any child drugs is wrong."
"I’m not defining everybody, OK?" Grace quipped back.
"So don’t throw me in that pot and stew me. What I’m saying is, legalizing pot ends up in stories like this. And you, with so many people looking up to you, advocate legalization of pot. And I don’t get it. I mean, I’ve seen video of you smoking a big, fat doobie. I mean, I’ve read your lyrics. I know what you say in your songs."
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