Soldier killed [the father of a friend] after psychotic reaction to cannabis

The Daily Telegraph (UK) ^ | October 10, 2006 | Unsigned

[weegee]

Lorry?

[angkor]

Reefer Madness!

[I see my hands]

"You do realize that if somebody posted every instance of violence caused by a drunk, it would crash the FR server?"

And If there were only posts regarding pot induced violence there would be no posts.

[AppyPappy]

Smoking dope would sometimes trigger Depression with me. I had a roommate who liked to fight when he was high.

[Vaquero]

Not a Joke...the sh#t can produce psychosis.....I generally post this song when there is a pot/psychosis thread:


Uncle Bob's Midnight Blues Lyrics
Artist: Randy Newman
Album: 12 Songs



Goin' down to the corner
Gonna have myself a drink
Goin' down to the corner
Gonna have myself a drink
'Cause that sh*t that we been usin'
Sure confuse my thinking
Gonna send out to the drugstore
Buy myself a goat
Tie him up in my front yard
For all my so-called friends to see
Ain't nobody gonna look in my window and laugh at me
I been up so long
That it looks like down to me
Please don't talk about to me when I'm gone
Baby, are you against me too?
Had a great idea the other night
Come-A-Ti-Yi-Yippie, baby
Look out
When the blue of the night meets the gold of the day
We love you
We love you
We love you

[Reform4Bush]

[Sir Gawain]

You got depressed because you spent your grant money on ditchweed and your friend wanted to fight because it gave him a headache. :-D

[Tokra]

[Jaded]

Probably.

Don't you wonder what the weed was laced with? It appears that it would have had to have been based on the psychotic reaction. Maybe the person had a severe allergy to cannabis.

[Tokra]

Maybe the person had a severe allergy to cannabis.

I had a severe allergic reaction once. I don't recall stabbing someone to death with garden shears over it.

[Jaded]

There'd only be one.

[SunTzuWu]

A soldier who killed the father of a life-long friend in a frenzied attack after suffering a psychotic reaction to home grown cannabis has been jailed for 10 years.

BS! There was something else involved.

[wagglebee]

More likely (if the story is even true) is that it was laced with PCP (which we used to always call "love boat").

[mysterio]

BS. Pot doesn't make anyone violent, it has never made anyone violent, and it never will make anyone violent. Absolute BS.

[MadeInAmerica]

psychotic reaction to home grown cannabis
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They might want to look a little further into what he smoked, because it wasn't cannabis. Maybe little Johnny was adding something to the "Home Grown" as it was growing or cut it with something to give it some effect. Most people growning pot end up growing stuff that at best gives the smoker a headache, at worst nothing at all.....so I hear.

[untrained skeptic]

This is not a normal reaction to cannabis, nor have I heard of this being even a rare reaction to cannabis.

I have to agree with others that the defense lawyer told the judge what he wanted to hear, and the judge isn't bothering with medical evidence.

There is always a danger with taking any mind altering drug, however with cannabis the danger is mainly hurting yourself or others because of impaired motor skills.

It's not a drug that normally provokes violence, so it would be interesting to hear what evidence was provided to tie cannabis use to his criminal actions.

Unless some solid evidence is provided, blaming this on cannabis doesn't sound credible.

[ikka]

(which we used to always call "love boat").

Does this explain the meaningless drivel of a TV show called "The Love Boat"?

[Ol' Dan Tucker]

BS! There was something else involved.

Someone probably dipped the joint into AD before it was smoked.

[wagglebee]

Beats the hell out of me!