Posted on 03/13/2010 11:48:11 AM PST by afraidfortherepublic
Even before it was revealed that Bedell had shot two Pentagon guards and was a marijuana addict/psychotic, questions were being raised about how doctors in California were approving access to the drug.
Left-wing California politicians have been talking about legalizing and taxing marijuana to save the state from bankruptcy. But thanks to the state's most notorious pothead, Pentagon shooter John Patrick Bedell, that vision may now go up in smoke. Bedell's easy access to "medical marijuana" in California is quickly becoming a scandal that threatens the well-funded movement to increase access to the weed by legalizing it statewide-and perhaps nationwide.
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REFFER MADDNESS!
ignore he was a bi-polar bush hating moonbat truther freak!!!
It was the pot man...for the love of god...it was the pot....
/sarc
There is no such thing....
Yeah, we all know thousands of potheads that suddenly go on shooting rampages at government buildings...
California quacks will prescribe pot to anyone for anything, toe fungus, even for kids don’t get up for school on time. Its disgusting.
Marijuana does not cause psychotic behavior. This guy was a nut who smoked pot.
My pot head brother has been using it regularly for over 30 years and all it has done is make him a bum with little drive who doesn’t bother anyone. OTOH, my dad was an alcoholic and became physically and psychologically abusive when he drank.
“Yeah, we all know thousands of potheads that suddenly go on shooting rampages at government buildings...”
Yet...
But I suspect they wouldnt be the only ones...
*grin*
In this context, it makes complete sense that John Patrick Bedell believed that the government was out to take his rights away, including his right to smoke pot. His marijuana use fueled his paranoia and made him susceptible to accepting other bizarre conspiracy theories, such as the 9/11 "inside job" nonsense made popular by such figures as radio show host Alex Jones and CAP senior fellow Van Jones.
Got any evidence of this, Cliff. Ever hear of causality? I bet the dude used toilet paper too.
False analogy dude, You have to be stoned out of your gourd to compare smoking dope to the usage of toilet tissue.. Just sayin'...
Gee, do you think this just might be the case because pot is illegal? We don't have drive-by shootings in front of liquor stores nowadays. We used to, during Prohibition.
This is probably about the worst article in the history of AIM - purely agenda-driven with the same kind of emotionalism we'd expect to see in a Brady Bunch release after a school shooting.
Silly idea.
Marijuana growing and selling is profitable only because it is illegal.
If it were legal and taxed, it would quickly fall in price until it was little more profitable than any other crop.
Unless the taxes were set so high that a black market remained, which would put us roughly back where we are now anyway. Except that people would go to jail for selling untaxed pot instead of for selling pot.
The false anonolgy was trying to flatout link pot to belief in the 9/11 was an inside job bullshit...
Here’s a study on truthers:
http://www.scrippsnews.com/911poll
The poll found that a majority of young adults give at least some credence to a 9/11 conspiracy compared to less than a fourth of people 65 or older. Members of racial and ethnic minorities, people with only a high school education and Democrats were especially likely to suspect federal involvement in 9/11.
DU even hosts a truther forum that I wont link to...
aside few a few birchers and paultards....that ideology resides in the main stream left wing...
Up until the day bedell went off...he was a poster child of liberalism...
But the libs cant have that...so they will just say he was a crazy right winger with reefer maddness...
Of course the would, And you would expect them not too?
I'm not even sure that's what you'd call an analogy. I'm just saying he has no evidence linking the guy's pot use to his psychosis, let alone violent tendencies. I think the California medical pot deal is a big scam, but his fingering of it as a possible source of the problem here is laughable.
The link between pot an violence is less than non-existent. It is probably an inverse relationship. It tends to make people passive and introverted, does it not? That's how they end up in their mom's basement for so long.
Of course I don't have any statistics, but I'd be willing to bet that the percentages of non pot users that went berserk with a gun is statistically indistinguishable from the percentage of pot users that did the same.
Cincaid mocks the reefer madness reference, then engages in it to the same degree the silly old films did.
“When you understand the nature of a thing...you know what it’s capable of” - Musashi, The book of five rings.
May 12 2009:
45% Support
46% Oppose
9% Undecided
07-24-2009:
47% support
42% oppose
11% undecided
11-22-2009:
49% support
38% oppose
12% undecided
¹http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/general_state_surveys/california/toplines/toplines_california_budget_crisis_may_12_2009
²http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/general_state_surveys/california/49_in_california_favor_legalizing_taxing_pot
Seriously he was bi polar and not taking his meds. It isn't the first time someone such as him has acted out and it probably won't be the last.
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