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Woman, 32, who stabbed her date 100 times to death in weed-induced frenzy is sentenced to 100 HOURS community service - as judge says she 'had no control over her actions' after cannabis caused 'psychotic break'
UK Daily Mail ^ | 1/23/2024 | Eve Simmons

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’.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


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To: fruser1

She will spend the 100 hours educating others on marijuana-induced psychosis
== == ==

She was so out of it that she stabbed her date 100 times, and got off.

So what does she remember about the marijuana-induced psychosis to teach others?

Except that it will get you off.


61 posted on 01/23/2024 3:53:36 PM PST by Scrambler Bob
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To: steve86

Sounds like you were diagnosed


62 posted on 01/23/2024 3:56:24 PM PST by NWFree (Sigma male 🤪)
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To: steve86
You're an ignoramus if you don't know how many times a schizophrenic has stabbed someone multiple dozens of times
63 posted on 01/23/2024 3:58:56 PM PST by NWFree (Sigma male 🤪)
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To: fruser1

Shrinks in the middle of it again. Always there to get criminals off. Unless they have good private mental health coverage. Then it’s off into phony treatment programs before being released to do it again....when the insurance runs out.


64 posted on 01/23/2024 4:02:14 PM PST by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: NWFree

Schizoid == Personality Disorder
Schizophrenia == Psychosis

Schizoid == No loss of touch with reality
Schizophrenia == Subject to hallucinations and severe delusions

Schizoid. == Not known for aggression or rage
Schizophrenia == Violent behavior is common


65 posted on 01/23/2024 4:07:58 PM PST by steve86 (Numquam accusatus, numquam ad curiam ibit, numquam ad carcerem™)
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To: NWFree

Happy to educate you.


66 posted on 01/23/2024 4:09:20 PM PST by steve86 (Numquam accusatus, numquam ad curiam ibit, numquam ad carcerem™)
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To: Mariner

Marijuana is a powerful hallucinogen that can cause delusions in suseptable people.


67 posted on 01/23/2024 4:13:00 PM PST by Chickensoup
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To: rdl6989

Why isn’t there guilty by reason of insanity? Or guilty by reason of drug induced frenzie?


68 posted on 01/23/2024 4:13:19 PM PST by This I Wonder32460 (Choose wisely because the consequences of actions create either destruction or benevolences.)
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To: Mark17

this defense.....

One way of another the guilty go free to find fresh, innocent victims.


69 posted on 01/23/2024 4:13:33 PM PST by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls.)
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To: Southside_Chicago_Republican

Being high is both a defense.

Hallucinating and Being delusional is.

Instead of not guilty by reason of insanity

It should be Guilty and insane.


70 posted on 01/23/2024 4:15:43 PM PST by Chickensoup
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To: AppyPappy

Current figure is the “clearance rate” for murder in the US
was over 80% in 1965 and was 54% in 2023.

Others currently unsolved.

FBI figure.


71 posted on 01/23/2024 4:18:07 PM PST by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls.)
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To: steve86

Schizoid - slang for schizo aka schizophrenic

Glad to educate you


72 posted on 01/23/2024 4:22:52 PM PST by NWFree (Sigma male 🤪)
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To: steve86

RE: Look up the word schizoid. It doesn’t mean what you think it means.


Dissociative Identity Disorder (Multiple Personality Disorder is another one.

Rodney Dangerfield: I went to my shrink. He told me I have a split personality. Two completely different people from my one mind.
He gave him a big bill.
I told him “Here’s half. Get the rest from the other guy.”


73 posted on 01/23/2024 4:25:57 PM PST by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls.)
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To: steve86

Schizoid

“ Of, relating to, or suggestive of schizophrenia. No longer in scientific use.
Relating to or characterized by the coexistence of disparate or antagonistic elements.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition • More at Wordnik”

You’re Welcome


74 posted on 01/23/2024 4:28:39 PM PST by NWFree (Sigma male 🤪)
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To: fruser1

“””cannabis-induced psychosis, which she suffered after taking two hits of the victim’s bong.”””


OK. I got the message. If you need to kill someone, be sure to bring your marijuana bong with you so you can get a jail-out-of free card.


75 posted on 01/23/2024 4:29:23 PM PST by Presbyterian Reporter
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To: fruser1

Why do you think they call it dope?


76 posted on 01/23/2024 4:38:58 PM PST by Getready (Wisdom is more valuable than gold and harder to find.)
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To: fruser1

It’a obvious that no one on this thread took the time to read the article. She stabbed the victim, she stabbed her dog, she stabbed herself which almost killed her.

So yes, she had a complete psychotic break from the crap that guy gave her thinking that he was going to get lucky when she was drugged, but it didn’t quite turn out the way he had planned did it?

She may be guilty, but people who are perfectly normal and go berzerk, usually have extenuating circumstances.


77 posted on 01/23/2024 4:41:35 PM PST by panzerkamphwageneinz
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To: Chickensoup

Some researchers say that the cannabis plant has other chemicals in it that suppress the psychosis and hallucinations caused by THC. So plant based marijuana users don’t get as much hallucinations and psychosis while people who use artificial manmade cannabinoids do get more hallucinations.
You eat or smoke poison you get sick or die. Stay away from all psychotropic drug users. Good luck to anyone who hangs with drug abusers.


78 posted on 01/23/2024 4:51:45 PM PST by Getready (Wisdom is more valuable than gold and harder to find.)
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To: steve86

It goes back a long time time even 1969 21st Century Schiizoid Man which I didn’t discover till later when April Wine did he cover


79 posted on 01/23/2024 4:57:26 PM PST by NWFree (Sigma male 🤪)
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To: fruser1
But, but, but... it is but a harmless drug. This has to be impossible. It just makes people mellow and happy. Doesn't it? That is what they say.

I'm very very confoozed about this.

80 posted on 01/23/2024 5:00:40 PM PST by Sequoyah101 (Procrastination is just a form of defiance)
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