Pot doesn’t make people commit violent crimes. That’s just a idiot not knowing the difference between causation and association. Our education system graduates morons.
The type of people who smoke pot are the type of people most likely to commit crimes, but in no way does the pot cause criminal activity.
We’ve gotten so dumb in this country that even Velcro shoelaces confuse us.
Except for:
“Researchers said that cannabis causes violence and they found no evidence that the link is the other way round – ie that violent people are more likely to use cannabis.”
Do you think violent behavior has a cause?
“The type of people who smoke pot are the type of people most likely to commit crimes,”
Pure fantasy. Define the “type of people”, please.
“but in no way does the pot cause criminal activity.”
True!
CodeToad in this case you don't know what you are talking about. I dealt with people for 25 years who became violent after smoking pot.
I will give you one example. A guy calls up and tells a 911 dispatcher that he might be thinks he is having a heart attack. So we get there and he won't answer his locked doors. But when we pulled up we saw a wide open window on the second floor. So my crew and I laddered it and I quickly went through the window and started going down the stairs.
I saw a guy sitting naked on a couch across the room from the stairway and when I was part way down he pulled a handgun out from between the cushions, pointed it at me and started pulling the trigger. I continued quickly down the stairs and out the front door.
The guy was a psycho obviously; he had been sitting around smoking pot all morning and came up with this bazaar plan to lay a trap to shoot someone (me) and then kill himself. Fortunately for me this loser pothead had loaded the bullets in the magazine of his semi-auto handgun backwards.
I had enough other weird experiences with loser potheads that I can most definitely say that in many individuals pot loosens the criminal imaginations in many individuals and they in their clouded reality they do things that they normally would not.