“I don't think it's going way out on a limb to draw the connection then between cannabis use, particularly I assume chronic use, and acts of violence.”
Tucker Carlson
Fox News talk show host. on his show. Claim dated 27 Aug 2019.
PolitiFact rated thisHeavily disputed
In short
Tucker Carlson (Fox News talk show host) made this claim around 27 August 2019. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 4 September 2019, 8 days later. Its rating was “Heavily disputed”.
Tucker Carlson has 48 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 23 of them false or fake, 14 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
Where the claim appeared
- video.foxnews.comhttps://video.foxnews.com/v/6078237702001/#sp=show-clips
Links recorded by PolitiFact. Some posts may have been deleted since.
This check was done by PolitiFact, not by DoesItStand. We list it so you can find it. Their full evidence and reasoning are in their article.