Posted on 04/16/2014 8:55:19 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
A Denver, Colorado mother has been shot dead in front of her children by her 'hallucinating' while she was on a 13 minute call to 911, police said.
Kristine Kirk, 44, called for help around 9:30p.m. Monday, telling dispatchers that her husband Richard Kirk, 47, was 'talking about the end of the world' and 'scarring' their three children. A source told FOX31 investigators are looking at whether he had eaten a marijuana cookie.
Mrs Kirk said in the 911 call that there was a gun in the house but it was in a safe, according to a probable cause statement.
'She then said that her husband retrieved the gun from the safe and she began to scream,' the statement reads. A gunshot could then be heard followed by silence.
Officers arrived on the scene shortly after the shooting.
'They were almost there,' Sonny Jackson, a Denver Police Department spokesman, told The Denver Post.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
This has at least as much credibility as the “Twinkie” defense. About on the level of Obummer’s “not a smidgen of evidence”.
Horsecrap. The guy’s a murderer, and no, “de debbil” didn’t make him do it, either.
They’ve had more than 30 years of increasing THC content. I read an article not long ago about the white coats in labs in WA state and no doubt elsewhere, spending their work week hybridizing mj to increase potency.
It’s powerful beyond anything that people smoked/ingested in the 60s - 80s.
Maybe he just wanted her dead and was looking for an ‘excuse’ to do that.
as liquortarians knock everyone out with their kerosene breath
Well, I don’t know that I’d call mj intoxication benign. It’s of course very different than liquor, which in excess - well, we all know what it does.
But it seriously damages ability to think rationally, damages judgement and reason, impulse control, lowers IQ, seriously messes up sensory perception and reaction time, and in a segment of people can and does cause psychotic episodes. Obviously it doesn’t effect everyone in the exact same way. But enough studies have been done that prove to anyone who is not a user and thus has addled wits, that it is dangerous.
Do I think users should be arrested? No.
I think it should be legal for anyone who wants to grow it themselves SOLELY for personal use. Ditto legality for poppy growing solely for personal use.
Dealers or sellers or those growing to sell - public caning for first offense, twice the stipes for second, and public execution for the third offense. Dealers of harder drugs, execution for the first offense.
That way the price would drop so fast and a few dealers getting whipped in public would change the face of the drug trade. Of course politicians will never do it since they profit off the drug trade. The WOD is merely to keep the prices nice and high.
seems like this case is another argument for requiring all pot users be registered.
oh wait ...
But... but... but it's a hallucinogen!
/sarc
Covers the halitosis though
Recently Nightline did a story on ‘glass’. Glass is a highly concentrated form of marijuana, where close to pure THC is extracted down into a paste.
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The street drug known as glass is crystal meth, not pot.
The commercial marijuana-infused edibles have too high a dose — lots of comments to that effect in Colorado. About 1/4-1/3 a cookie would be appropriate for someone with no experience.
Ok....lets go further with age limit. We know that it affects male brain development up to age 25. So would you be in favor of a minmum age of 25?
On to the ‘we don’t know yet’ answers. If you acknowledge that mj is intoxicating....and acknowledge that some activities such as driving should be regulated reference this intoxication...how on ewrth is legalization justified? How can we move from a law where any trace is illegal to on that requires the ability to test a spectrum of intoxication.......when that level of teeting doesn’t exist? IOW was legalization premature?
sativia = sativa
The headline says he at a cookie. The story does not. Pure Yellow Journalism.
It’s too late for facts, the bogus headline has done it’s job.
My mistake...it was called wax.
Considering how many drunks kill someone in anger, legal pot is still W-A-Y ahead of the game.
I don't think so. I can vote, I can drink, I can serve and die for my country, nah, I think someone old enough to do all of that is capable of making an informed decision about whether to smoke pot or not.
If you acknowledge that mj is intoxicating....and acknowledge that some activities such as driving should be regulated reference this intoxication...how on ewrth is legalization justified?
Because the constitution of the US leaves those decisions up to the states?
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