Posted on 01/23/2024 2:37:21 PM PST by fruser1
A California woman who stabbed a man she was dating 100 times and killed him, before turning the knife on herself and her dog, has been handed 100 hours of community service.
Bryn Spejcher, 32, was given the astonishingly low sentence following psychiatrists' ruling that the tragedy was '100 percent' caused by cannabis-induced psychosis, which she suffered after taking two hits of the victim's bong.
The judge ruled that Spejcher 'experienced a psychotic break from reality' and 'had no control over her actions' when she killed Chad O'Melia, then 26, on Memorial Day weekend 2018.
She will spend the 100 hours educating others on marijuana-induced psychosis and two years on probation - but has promised to spend the rest of her life debunking the myth that cannabis is harmless.
O'Melia's family cried when the sentence was read out at Ventura Superior Court, with the victim's father warning it gave 'everyone who smokes marijuana in this state a license to kill’.
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Yes, but it does make their paranoia much much worse, leading to over the top aggression.
Bryn Spejcher, an audiologist from Chicago, underwent emergency surgery after stabbing herself in the face and neck during a weed-induced coma
well, they let muslimes off of rape charges because they “don’t know any better” so...
Yep, makes me wonder what else will cause he to have a “psychotic break”. Cough medicine?
National Institutes of Health (.gov)
https://www.nih.gov › news-releases
Young men at highest risk of schizophrenia linked with ...
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Effects of adolescent THC exposure on the prefrontal GABAergic system: implications for schizophrenia-related psychopathology
J Renard, WJ Rushlow, SR Laviolette - Frontiers in psychiatry, 2018 - frontiersin.org
… schizophrenia later in life. This marijuana-associated risk is believed to be related to increasing levels of THC … that adolescent exposure to THC selectively targets schizophrenia-related …
For sure. 2 hits on a bong and she goes on a stabbing frenzy. Had to be a in crazy town already.
One hour per stab…. Nice justice judge…..
Never forget one of the biggest pushers of legalizing marijuana and med Mary Jane is also the leading antiTrumper...
In Califonia it is legal to kill people as long as you smoke weed first. You do have to remember to keep the stabs down to how many spare hours you have to spend for community service.
His family must be devastated.
She needs to be confined for the rest of her life in some secure facility where there’s absolutely no way that she can ever be exposed to marijuana, even accidentally.
“[Effects of adolescent THC exposure on the prefrontal GABAergic system: implications for schizophrenia-related psychopathology]”
That’s not this situation, not an acute response to intoxication as this was. It’s referring to changes in the brain from chronic THC exposure resulting in permanent psychotic disorder.
Well, alrighty then. 😏
Well she was convicted so the DA has every right and responsibility to appear the sentencing malfeasance.
The sentence is completely inconsistence with thousands of prior rulings.
Yet Patricia Krenwinkel has been in prison over 50 years. Not saying she should be released but that is quite a disparity IMO.
Look up the word schizoid. It doesn’t mean what you think it means.
I would believe PCP.
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