Obviously No Connection Here

These news items, just in:

 

Eddie Ray Routh, killer of the ‘American Sniper’ author Chris Kyle, and his friend Chad Littlefield,

was a marijuana user.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-31617308

 

Routh’s lawyers said he was ‘psychotic’ at the time of the shootings two years ago.

 

The report says (readers of my articles will be unsurprised by all that follows) : ‘Routh, who suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder, was under extreme mental distress and was convinced the two men would turn on him on the day of the killing, his lawyers argued.

The court also heard that Routh was under the influence of marijuana and alcohol at the time of the shooting. In addition, he had been prescribed anti-psychotic medication often used for schizophrenia, reported the Associated Press news agency.’

 

 

Richard Gatiss, the mugger who attacked Alan Barnes, a disabled and defenceless pensioner, was last convicted in 2009 for, wait for it, possession of cannabis, an offence which you pretty much have to commit in a police station three or four times while making faces before anyone will prosecute you for it (if then) .

 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2966650/Thug-admits-assaulting-disabled-pensioner-Alan-Barnes-shocking-attack.html

 

There are two things in common here. The actions of both men were appalling, well outside the range of normal behaviour even for wicked and criminal persons.  Both were users of a drug still officially believed to be ‘soft’. If that belief were to be revised, then authority might make a connection between the drug abuse and the unhinged behaviour. But as long as the potent dogma, that cannabis is safe and ought to be decriminalised is promoted by the billionaire Big Dope lobby and its addle-headed dupes, the connection won’t be made.

 

And so a cannabis-frazzled killer or mugger will come into more and more of our lives as the years go by.

 

Any hostile commenters on this article are asked to declare whether they are cannabis users themselves, or have any interest in commercial sale of this drug. . If they don’t give this information, readers will be reasonably entitled to draw their own conclusions.