The guy had a history of violence, arrest for DUI, was using far more powerful, legal substances - but the marijuana is singled out?
That smells like propaganda - that we have seen more of since the CO and WA votes.
Hell, one LE person believed the report that 37 deaths had occurred in January due to cannabis (that was posted on a satirical site.) That police chief had months to verify that this was a hoax (a hoax was immediately apparent to anyone not suffering from reefer madness.) Yet the police officer presented this as truth.
We also know that Ronnie Raygun went to town on a fake "scientific" study that indicated brain damage - and only years later, after the threat of a lawsuit, was the actual research released - which demonstrated the scientist had lied in order to create a reefer madness scare at the behest of conservatives. This study, however, is still cited by some as reputable.
That's the bg for all of this that someone needs to take into account - including the recent reports that do not indicate causation but are touted in the media as proof that marijuana causes "brain abnormalities."
I am inclined to view any such reporting as propaganda until proved otherwise - because that's the history of this sort of reporting by the mainstream press and the agencies whose function is to create propaganda - we have an entire bureaucracy whose sole function is propaganda to justify the war on drugs.
We all know that truth is the first casualty of any war.
Again, since marijuana use is little changed since the 1980s - you have to wonder how, suddenly, when states want to address legalization, marijuana has suddenly become the cause of this or that when forty years of marijuana use at the same rate has not regularly seen such actions.
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