No, smoking pot doesn't make you homicidal
by digby
My piece in Salon this morning takes on the laughable claim by Accuracy in Media that because the Las Vegas shooter Jared Miller was a pot smoker and a fan of Alex Jones, his shooting was a leftist revolutionary act:
[I]t’s possible that the combination of far right rhetoric along with a libertarian desire to end the drug war attracted Miller to Jones, but it’s pretty clear that it was the guns that bound them to each other most strongly.
Kincaid proves, if nothing else has, that he is seriously out of touch with his own movement:
The paper said that Garry Frick, the owner of a bookstore, got caught in a short but dramatic debate with Jerad Miller, in which the pothead “covered everything from Bundy to the Declaration of Independence to the morality of pornography, guns and drugs in a span of less than 15 minutes. He kept misquoting things and incorrectly using words, Frick said, all the while sounding very sure of himself.”
It sounds like marijuana took its psychological toll on him.
If “misquoting things and incorrectly using words all the while sounding very sure of himself” is a sign of marijuana induced psychological problems, the entire right wing of this country is a very dedicated bunch of potheads.
read on ... these people just can't get any sillier.