Is that honestly the best excuse he can come up with?
For all there is to be said about the intellectual deficit of the left, I sometimes fear that such a deficit ranks as nothing in comparison to the intellectual vacuum — if not black hole — that is the stoner mindset.
Demetris McCoy says he’s sorry for the firestorm he caused after his two young nephews were videotaped as they smoked marijuana, but he says he doesn’t believe he is the first to expose the boys to the illegal drug.
The Watauga 17-year-old is in the Tarrant County Jail, charged with injury to a child after police released a video of a 2-year-old and a 5-year-old boy doing drugs.
But even as he apologized in a jailhouse interview with WFAA-TV on Monday, Mr. McCoy talked about how his nephews didn’t get high while smoking the marijuana. He predicted the youngsters would have eventually smoked the drug anyway.
“They wasn’t even high,” Mr. McCoy said. “They didn’t even inhale it right.”
The youngsters on the videotape are the children of Mr. McCoy’s sister.
Mr. McCoy said he has been around marijuana all of his life and that drugs, for many, is just a part of growing up.
“Some people give their kids alcohol, let them smoke ice, methamphetamines. Weed ain’t going to kill them,” he said.
I’m reminded of Chris Rock’s jokes about the lame things people say in some sort of attempt do justify deviant behaviour:
Hey, man, I take care of my kids.
Whaddya want, a cookie? You’re SUPPOSED to take care of your kids, you low-expectation-having mutherf*cker!
Seriously…sometimes that’s all you want to say to upstanding examples of moral virtue like Mr. McCoy above. Does he expect some manner of leniency from society just because a) he only gave weed to his 2 and 5 year old cousins, instead of alcohol or meth, b) weed is “non-lethal”, and c) they “didn’t inhale it right”, so they weren’t really even high? This is a man (I use the term in the spirit of generosity) who allowed (and encouraged?) his two year old cousin to smoke weed, and the best he can offer in his defence is a curt apology and a critique of the toddler’s technique?
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