Posted on 10/26/2014 10:11:26 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Potheads defend their addiction by insisting that marijuana can make people lazy, dumb or hungry, but not violent. However, the case of Michael Zehaf-Bibeau, the Canadian Islamic terrorist killer, proves otherwise.
Zehaf-Bibeau was an Islamist, as well as a pothead. In another notorious case of jihad, one of the Boston Marathon bombers, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, was not only a dope smoker but a dealer.
It appears that Dzhokhar’s brother Tamerlan Tsarnaev was implicated in a Jewish triple murder case in which thousands of dollars’ worth of marijuana and money were left covering the bodies. All three victims’ throats were slashed.
It may be too early to draw a direct connection between jihad, marijuana, and mass murder, but it is worth considering whether consumption of the drug can alter the mind to such an extent that jihad becomes appealing to some mentally unstable individuals....
(Excerpt) Read more at canadafreepress.com ...
My extensive research on assassins indicates most drank beer and didn’t smoke.
But I defer to your expertise.
Extensive research? Really?
As for me, I’m just posting my opinion.
I don’t use sarcasm Marks
Sorry.
no problem
It's the drunks, not the stoners, who tend to be prone to violence at some point, usually after that one drink too many that transforms them from whatever kind of drunk they usually are into Mr. Hyde.
Stoners, otoh, are generally the last I suspect will become violent.
I think it has to do more with what you bring with you rather than the drug (THC) or poison (alcohol) and that moderation is the key to keeping things safer/saner rather than Darwin level dumb and dangerous.
Regardless, I think pot is less a danger than alcohol and I really don't believe either should be illegal or banned.
People have been self-medicating since the beginning. It's hubris and foolish to make what appears to be just human behavior illegal, as we have with the "war on drugs" and with prohibition of alcohol.
Taking that kind of power for oneself is ALWAYS like that one drink too many.
Its not like you think
Maybe in the hood a crack dealer might offer pot as an incentive or just part of his wares but it wouldn’t make sense
Very different drugs...one extremely addictive for outliers
The other arguably Americas most casual intoxicant
Pot is typically dealt between friends or maybe grown by users
It is no more a gateway drug then beer in a liquor store leads to Everclear
In fact less so
We are a nation of perhaps 320 million with maybe 400 million having lived here 1965-2014
And at least half those smoked pot at least some...
And how many became hard drug users...very few in perspective
Typically for an addict they likely felt their first buzz with beer or cheap wine
It makes you a homicidal maniac?
Or a lazy apathetic do-nothing who can’t get off the couch?
Because I’ve seen both claimed by the liars. Could you guys just pick one and stick with it?
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