Weed creates mass murderers, especially mass SHOOTERS.
Reefer Madness was a true story. /s
I will say I find most of the people who are self medicating have underlying problems.
Drug abuse to extremes, meth, pot, coke, whatever have a lot of imbalances. They are trying to get to feeling “good” or “better” or whatever that means. The drug impacts them for a short time and they continue.
Alcohol is another drug, where you probably have met someone who has drastic changes when they are drinking, possibly they are not able to metabolize it properly and act erratic, or it magnifies the issues they are having with the lack of inhibitions. While YOU as an individual may not show some of these signs, a large group of people do have issues with drugs and alcohol. Those people then do extreme things. Study 1000 people, you will find outliers. People who are hardly impacted by any but the largest amounts, and others who even a small amount go crazy. Most are in the middle of the bell curve, but we are seeing the issues with those who are so messed up that they will never be able to have an even close to normal relationship with the drug/drink or the world.
Is it the drug as the problem, or they symptom of the problem with their minds and self control? I’d say a lot of both.
Drugs do cause people to make bad decisions.
We don’t know about these shooters but we do know Trayvon made a stupid mistake after smoking pot. The meth head who refused to leave our fenced in yard made a stupid mistake. Now, to see if they would have made the same stupid mistakes without the drugs or were the drugs a facilitator.
Another stupid mistake.
After working on the streets for 25 years coming into daily contact with mentally ill people... there is not even a smidge of doubt in my mind that there is a very strong association with long term marijuana use and mental illness. But one does not have to be a big city firefighter to see and understand this. At this point of you have been around for a few decades in an area where pot had been popular all you have to do is think about your long term pot smoking friends, associates, and family members and a strong correlation between pot, mental illness, and failed lives in general is usually pretty clear.
But marijuana smokers themselves have the strongest form of cognitive dissonance that I have ever seen from any group. Talk to long term “homeless” people and chances are that you will find that around 95% of them are long term marijuana users and advocates. But do any of them associate their current mental issues, situation and lack of motivation to improve their lot in life with pot? Basically none of them make this association.
Nothing is more comical to me than speaking with long term pot users who frequently have a plethora of predictable health, mental, and social problems. Very few of them will admit that pot might be one of the root causes of many of their difficulties. Most will tell you that they would be willing to give up anything but marijuana and are likely to advocate for what they perceive as its many benefits from improving their outlook to clearing up their dog’s itchy skin. (True story from a homeless aquaintance.)
Saddly, alcohol and marijuana probably have a more corrosive impact on the decline of our society than any other substances. And our sophisticated liberal society, the media, celebrities, and Hollywood, are all promoters of both substances. You could not make up stranger fiction.
I had a friend lose it on a 5 day weed smoking binge. He was almost shot by police after threatening to kill people with a knife. After seeing it in real life, “Reffer Madness” is very real
Overloads of estrogen in the womb from birth control at the time of conception is just the start of the drug train for our youth.
I had a conversation with some LEO’s this past weekend.
Pot is now legal where I live and they are happy about it. No more BS busts and time wasting paperwork for something they consider harmless. They noted that pot heads are easy to handle when they need to be taken in and laughed about it, cracking a joke saying “Just toss a bag of chocolate chip cookies in the back of the squad and they will follow it right in.” “No threat at all” they said. Many pot smokers these days are seniors and the LEO’s unanimously asserted they have no interest in rousting Granny for possession of a little weed. Meth, they said, is the real problem drug these days and recounted several anecdotes to substantiate that view.
This conversation occurred Saturday, August 3rd 2019 and involved local police and TSA officers.
Any link between young men, depression and alienation will correlate with potential killers.
Weed is a psychoactive drug. Weed of today is very potent. Nothing at all like the weed of old.
Many of the shooters are known to be on prescription meds for “mental” issues. In suburban areas of means that create a lot of these shooters, kid acts up a few times in class and ends up on Ritalin, Zoloft of some other psycho cosmetic drug.
What do we know about very potent weed interacting with other psychoactive drugs? Nothing.
There’s huge volumes of studies that show that pot causes psychosis, schizophrenia and brain damage.