[South40]

Michael Brown had 12 nanograms.

I am not a marijuana smoker and never have been. But I had the impression the drug made one mellow. To your knowledge, could it also make one aggressive?

[jonascord]

"To your knowledge, could it also make one aggressive?"

Have you ever seen two stoners get into a punch up in a bar?

[cuban leaf]

I am not a marijuana smoker and never have been. But I had the impression the drug made one mellow. To your knowledge, could it also make one aggressive?

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It makes them mellow. As a former pot smoker (quit in 1977) I see pot smokers as the most UN-dangerous of any drug user. There are plenty of belligerent drunks. I NEVER saw a belligerent stoner. Pot's biggest victim, by far, is the person using it. It was the height of hypocrisy to make alcohol legal but pot illegal.

[MUDDOG]

could it also make one aggressive?

I think it would make a person more reckless, and that could lead to behavior that would seem to be or actually was aggressive, especially if you were inclined that way already.

I think recklessness was the effect of THC on Michael Brown.

The effect of THC was an issue at the grand jury. From what I've read, the state took the position that the THC contributed to his aggressiveness, while the Brown family's pathologist Michael Baden testified that he didn't think it would've had that effect.

[dynoman]

I had always heard that but apparently it is a myth;

https://www.google.com/search?q=marijuana+mellow+myth&hl=en&gbv=2&sa=X&as_q=&nfpr=&spell=1&ei=Tep7VO3uOYTLsASKag&ved=0CBEQvwU