Posted on 02/24/2025 1:02:09 PM PST by ChicagoConservative27
A 15-year-old boy shot his mother and sister multiple times soon after calling cops to say he was going to kill someone while having a “bad reaction” to “a bunch of edibles,” according to police.
The suspect took the marijuana edibles on Saturday night with another teenager and an adult when he began to have physical issues and called an ambulance in a panic, according to police in Houston, Texas.
He then grabbed a gun when the two others started to laugh at him — and called the cops threatening to kill himself or someone else, ABC 13 reported.
When the dispatcher called back, the boy’s mom answered and said she was unaware of anything unusual going on with her son.
First responders still raced to the house — and found the boy’s mom and 17-year-old sister riddled with bullets, with both in “very critical condition,” cops said.
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He put one in the trail mix he gave me and I had no idea and ate it. Turns out I could barely talk and he had to carry me to bed in his guest room. Plus I had no idea who he was. I was so pissed he next morning.
It could be strong THC, or it could be K2 (not the vitamin), either could trigger a schizo reaction.
Your experience should be considered deliberate poisoning.
Don’t know how good a friend he was, but I would have seriously considered filing charges.
The marijuana teens are doing these days is not the same as the “pot” teens were smoking in the 70s. I wouldn’t dare touch any of the marijuana that is on the market today.
There are a lot of people who are vulnerable to psychotic reactions. The legalization crowd doesn’t want that widely known.
Thinking about it now, I wonder if some use it awhile, become sensitized and undergo something akin to an allergic reaction.
The psychosis can last for as long as the THC remains in the body—and it’s for real.
“Legalize it and then tax the hell out of it.”
I feel depressed, I feel so bad
‘Cause you’re the best girl that I’ve ever had
I can’t get your love, I can’t get a fraction
Oh little girl, psychotic reaction
And it feels like this
I feel so lonely night and day
I can’t get your love, I must stay away
Well, I need you girl, by my side
Oh little girl, would you like to take a ride now?
I can’t get your love, I can’t get satisfaction
Oh little girl, psychotic reaction
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_35S6-U9D4
my goodness, what a family.
teens aren’t the only people that are smoking today’s marijuana...
It could be like alcohol unmasking anti-social tendencies
Oregon is considering legalizing psycedelic mushrooms.
Airline pilots won’t have to go out of state to get it.
so the mom and sister laughed at the son? that’s when he shot them?
the way the article is written it confuses me.
Your experience should be considered deliberate poisoning. Don’t know how good a friend he was, but I would have seriously considered filing charges.
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An almost identical scenario happened to my brother-in-law....it was his brother and his friend that thought it would be quite a prank to pull. Anyway, that situation became very serious because he ended up in the hospital and once there, they figured out what happened to him and they of course got law enforcement involved. In the end, no charges were ever filed but I think that was only due to my brother-in-law’s efforts and pleading...
Marijuana was legalized in Minnesota two years ago, but the regulatory system that was supposed to control the sale of marijuana and THC products is still not in place thanks to the ineptitude of our Governor, Tampon Tim Walz. THC spiked products and gummies are being sold willy nilly under a hodgepodge of local ordinances while full blown marijuana sales are being made on Indian reservations again with little oversight. Already some gummy products have been found to contain THC far above the supposed legal limit. Again Tampon Tim and his leftist crew have left the state in a mess and situations like this are bound to happen in Minnesota.
No State Regulates Pot..
They just put Warning labels
On Packaging.
Marijuana edibles were a miracle cure for me.
Eat one (10 MG), 1 hour later I was out like a baby and for 7 hours or so.
Compare the side effects of marijuana with most sleep medicine that are prescription. Not even remotely the same:
Example: https://www.drugs.com/sfx/ambien-side-effects.html
Simply treat the stuff with respect!
It is a drug.
Don't drive, go to work, school, etc when high.
BUT those trying to attribute all these dangers and risks to this are full of $hit. The arguments of “gate way drug” and “psychological addiction” are literal trash arguments that like gender dysphoria are intended to sound scientific when in reality they are just rhetoric (playing with words). Like gender dysphoria (Obama era) these ideas were politically motivated and sponsored (Nixon era). The so called science by government always follows the money and political agenda, may it be Covid, a gay gene (dis-proven now), climate change (Now the EPA and NASA get money for this so it will become scientific fact), etc.
Hint: everything that brings you pleasure you want to do more of (psychological addiction) and most folks that died of a heroin OD ate a cheeseburger before (gateway drug). These are not scientific arguments.
But all that said, marijuana DOES have medicinal uses, and it is hard to OD on, it does not make people freak out (quite the contrary, it makes them calm, sleepy...). Marijuana isn't really addictive, it doesn't really pose any sort of grave health risk when using it. Sorry, I know as a conservative this is one of those issues where you're supposed to line up and say that smoking one joint will make you a useless bum that eventually seeks out heroin and lives in his parents home at 40. Nope-
Take away the fake science and the cliche's and you're left with something less dangerous than alcohol or tobacco. In time as the myths are dispelled (and they mostly are already - few believe the crap) it will become more difficult for those opposing its legalization.
It Texas where I reside, the state was more or less “shamed” into partially legalizing it: marijuana is highly effective against seizures and the state which prides itself in being “tough on crime” found itself in a conflict where babies that obviously show relief when being treated are hardly making it up just so they can be high. https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/2018/02/16/267816/cannabis-treatment-raises-hope-for-parents-of-epilectic-children-but-costs-side-effects-are-a-matter-of-concern/
It's like everything else. You can find some freak and rare exception, the .01% and try to construct an argument with that (as with abortion where the media and politicians in support use some girl aged 9 that is pregnant from her uncle and severely mentally handicapped and pretending like this is what abortion is about). These are not valid arguments. They are appeals to emotions and rare exceptions.
Marijuana is drug and should be used responsibly, but it's hardly the danger or risk it is made out as.
When I was in college I noticed that none of my college buddies who smoked could hold their breaths under water for more than a few seconds. I consider that alone to constitute serious harm.
IMHO, marijuana is over hyped politicized junk.
They decided to go after it under Nixon and since then it has been THE single most studied drug, with over 3,000 various federal studies looking into every aspect of this drug.
They really haven’t been able to find much. And so BS like “gate way drug” and “psychological addiction” were born. These are really rhetorical arguments not science based.
That said, both tobacco and alcohol can be physically addictive. Ask anyone who’s in AA if alcohol isn’t physically addictive.
Furthermore, the damage done to the body is far greater with alcohol or tobacco.
You do not consume 40 joints a day like a smoker does cigarettes, and even when it is smoked, the user only inhales 2 or 3 times. Besides, many users of marijuana opt for less stinky and cleaner options such as oils, edibles, etc.
Bottom line- marijuana has been villainized to the point of comedic. The new angle of attack is trying to pretend like it causes psychosis and makes some people go crazy. Junk, junk, and more junk.
The reason why these junk arguments will not work, is because so many people use it: ~60% try pot and about 22% of adults used pot in the last year.
You can tell people that they will fall off the side of the earth if they sail too far out to sea in some government study feeding a policy maker what they want to hear, but once 50% have sailed past that point and know the truth, it’s an argument appealing to ignorance that will have limited traction only with a small few that really want to believe that junk (some other underlying reason).
Eventually, in the next years it will become more and more legal, albeit it should never be considered acceptable to be high and operating a vehicle, while at work, in school, or annoying people with its horrible stench. For those that want to use this drug both medicinally and recreational, fine, but don’t put other people at risk nor annoy them with the smell.
Ever see the battlefield in the past, where people rally around various flags (colors)?
This is one of those issues that has nothing to do with the merits of any argument.
Some folks will simply oppose it because they think as a conservative they need to take that position.
Instead of thinking, making a judgement based on any sort of facts, weighing the pros and cons, filtering out the nonsense, identifying what are assumptions... they essentially use a form of group think to define their stance on the issue.
The burocracy at all levels of course will resist and has financial incentives to keep it illegal (huge budgets for law enforcement, intel agencies and fines/revenue are involved).
But in the meantime those that support it have learned that they can also play that game: lobby, hire former speakers of the house, promise money in the form of taxes, licencing, etc.
Who would have ever believed this: https://youtu.be/s8gj3IGqIwY?si=AXU08X0GzswmBy6s
One day people will look back and think “did we really arrest people over this?”. It’ll sound about as stupid as arresting or incarcerating someone for owning a vibrator. A long time ago, people actually did find themselves in prison for owning a dildo or vibrator. Some of these laws (though seldom enforced) are still on the books!!! https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/PE/htm/PE.43.htm#43.21
Marijuana simply became criminalized because of politics (Nixon), government growth and serving itself (DEA, FBI...), and many people on the political right feeling they need to take a stance against it because that makes them “conservative.”
Not sure where it says in the Constitution that pot should be illegal or regulated. I thought the conservative movement is about smaller/less government, less intrusion in our lives?
Again, IMHO this is an issue where you have a lot of contradictions, a lot which simply doesn’t make sense, huge over exaggerating by those trying to make marijuana out as dangerous, and many folks that simply take a stance on the issue because as a conservative they feel that’s what position they are supposed to take.
Real world: a kid eats the entire pack of edible marijuana gummies (10 doses). What happens? He falls asleep, wakes up the next morning without a hang over. What do you think happens to the kid if he eats 10 doses of prescription sleep pills?
Marijuana is essentially habit forming but not really addictive. It is extremely hard to overdose. No kidding Tylenol kills more people every year (450): https://www.uspharmacist.com/article/acetaminophen-toxicity-what-pharmacists-need-to-know#:~:text=Acetaminophen%2Dassociated%20overdoses%20account%20for,and%20over%20450%20deaths%20annually.
It does NOT make people freak out or behave or irradically, quite the contrary, it calms people down. It’s negative health effects are far less than alcohol or tobacco. There are medicinal uses for marijuana: seizures, sleep, anxiety... It’s a plant that grows naturally and has been used for at least 8,800 years by humans: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_cannabis
Now we want to define it as a schedule 1 drug (comparable to heroin, crack or LSD) in America: https://www.dea.gov/drug-information/drug-scheduling (look under schedule 1)
No, it makes absolutely no sense.
It’s stupid.
It’s a loosing battle for those that oppose it’s legalization, and that’s a good thing.
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