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Internet outrage as mom arrested for letting toddler smoke pot

BY Jillian Raftery  on March 11, 2013 @ 1:25 pm (Updated: 10:46 am - 3/12/13 )

Dori was floored when online commenters said they were outraged not at a mother who let her toddler smoke marijuana, but at the police for arresting her.

"It's like the most wacko comments I've ever seen," said Dori. "I'm as skeptical of government as anyone, but almost every comment was against arresting a mom who let her 10-month-old allegedly smoke pot from a bong."

The Centralia mom, who has not been identified, was arrested for allegedly letting her 10-month-old toddler inhale marijuana smoke from a bong.

KING 5 News reported that police found 40 marijuana plants, as well as guns. Child Protective Services took custody of the toddler and another child. KOMO news later released the cell phone video that prompted police action.

Dori thought the story itself was bizarre, until he read the comment section at the bottom; most of the comments supported the mom and expressed outrage at her arrest.

The anonymous commenters said that the mom was being persecuted for her marijuana grow operation, and that police shouldn't interfere with her parenting:

"I think it's amazing that the state will dictate what parents can and can't give their children. I'm sorry, but I don't see a reason to remove this child from their parents and put it into state custody. They've probably completely ruined a family. So they were growing a plant...BIG DEAL. It doesn't make them bad parents," read one comment, from user CollegeKid.

"So true there andyblue555 Sorry Cop Loosers brake all kinds of department policys everyday up there in wa state the people in wa state love to live in a Natzi Police state Corruption at is best in seattle and on down to Portland oregon. Andyblue555 the people in seattle are on drugs and are Crazy thats a known fact," wrote user William_Stewcf8.

Dori remembers a story just a few years ago about a mother arrested after posting a picture to Facebook of her child taking a bong hit. Her parenting drew widespread outrage.

"Maybe it's just that we need visuals these days," he said.

But Producer Jake suggested that many people just don't see marijuana as a drug anymore, especially since its legalization in Washington State.

"Do you think these people would feel a little different if there was a picture of the kid taking a puff of a cigarette?"

Jillian Raftery, Social Media Captain
Jillian Raftery is a social media captain for the Dori Monson Show. She loves the neighborly vibe of the Pacific Northwest and spends as much time as possible outdoors.
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  • SeattleNative wrote...
    Imagine that
    March 12, 2013 1:08 pm
    A pothead mom makes dumb decisions. Go figure.

    There are consequences that come with being stupid.

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  • The Dude Abides wrote...
    Can we all maybe just once agree on this?
    March 12, 2013 1:33 pm
    The mom is stupid for giving such a damaging chemical to such a young child. Regardless of your opinion of it's long term effects on adults, we can agree that this would be VERY damaging to a kid this age. So be you liberal or be you consevative, be you hippie or be you hipster, be you either a right-wing or a left-wing nutjob, or be you just normal like the majority of us, let's all agree on something. This woman doesn't deserve to be a mom. Give the kid to a loving family member, snip this woman's tubes so that she may no longer procreate, and send her on her merry way.
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  • HLC wrote...
    Actions like this.
    March 12, 2013 1:58 pm
    Proves what smoking pot does do your judgement. So you dopers feel it won't cause any harm? Theres a good reason it's called dope.
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  • irony wrote...
    i've seen it before...now potheads think it's legal
    March 12, 2013 3:04 pm
    since they can't bust you for possession or usage how are they ever going to see them give it to their kids either when they're passed out on the couch or deliberately. and then there's the 2nd hand smoke, because it's pot there will be early onset of multifocal white matter desease in adult children of pot addicts.
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  • Cbrew wrote...
    Wow what a terribly artificial story created by Dori Monson
    March 12, 2013 3:20 pm
    "Liberals are giving kids pot and they don't even think it's a drug anymore!!!" What a joke what an absolutely pathetic embarrassment of an article... You went online and saw a couple posts from internet trolls that post radical idiotic comments on EVERY story... and then wrote about it?!? Seriously? Dori you're a horrible human being, Seriously, you're just a terrible person and i believe you will be judged for what you do on a daily basis... you spend your life trying to make one group of people hate and fear another group... you're no better than the propoganda machines of the various Fascist regimes of the mid 20th century... I seriously don't understand what Conservatives get out of you... you're just a terrible human being and unfortunately conservatives eat it up, because they're too lazy to actually learn what people are like, they'd rather just believe they're all evil and the boogeyman.
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  • roomtemp wrote...
    @Cbrew...
    March 12, 2013 5:51 pm
    "I seriously don't understand what Conservatives get out of you..."

    Being a conservative libertarian myself, maybe I'm qualified to answer your question.

    Something between, very little and nothing of of value.

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  • It's me! Ha ha! wrote...
    Wow what a terribly artificial story created by Dori Monson
    March 12, 2013 3:36 pm
    Artificial? Cbrew you think that Monson made up this story? Those idiots for parents have never done this before? Never given children alcohol or allowed under age drinking parties in their homes? Dude! There is a reason we have laws and idiotic stunts like this are ILLEGAL!

    This regime is dead set in taking my guns from me and yet they turn a blind eye toward idiocracy like this!

    Like I posted earlier, just ensuring future Liberal voters. Mindless Left wing Parrots!

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  • DonVigo wrote...
    In all fairness...
    March 12, 2013 5:05 pm
    I think you've swayed more people to vote left than a lifetime of Bob Marley concerts could ever manage...
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  • SeattleNative wrote...
    At least you're being honest, DonVido
    March 12, 2013 7:59 pm
    Leftist voters are as intelligent as stoned-out pothead rastafarians.
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  • DonVigo wrote...
    A) It's "Vigo."
    March 13, 2013 9:33 am
    I know, hard to look the inch up to see that...

    And B)Idiots are far more tollerable than ***holes, as again, keeps getting proven at the polls. Seriously, keep up the name calling... We centrists REALLY aren't viewing you as the greater of the evils or anything...

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  • calapete wrote...
    if Dory wrote a story based on YOUR idiotic comments
    March 13, 2013 7:43 am
    he'd have material for years.

    Comments posted anonymously are exactly worth NOTHING.

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  • chubby wrote...
    I wonder . . .
    March 20, 2013 4:53 pm
    how many times Anne Bremner drove drunk before she was finally caught. Ask her next time you have her on your show, Dori. Hypocrite! Oh wait, Dori says that people drive an average of 80 times before they are caught. And please, please, please start taking phone calls from listeners again. It is torture to listen to you banter with that pea brain producer, Jake. It's talk radio . . . the callers make the show!
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