Poor women have babies so that they can increase their monthly welfare checks.
But the granddaddy of all myths has to be the myth of reefer madness. And to those parents who, based on their own youthful experimentation, don't think marijuana is such a big deal, the government warns that the pot they smoked in the 60's and 70's is nothing like the weed their kids are smoking today. It's ten, twenty, one hundred times more potent, we are told. This week, marijuana became a campaign issue. The responses were predictable.