During that psychotic break, she stabbed O’Melia multiple times, eventually killing him. She also stabbed herself repeatedly, officials said.
The next morning, officers arrived at the apartment to find O’Melia in a pool of blood and Spejcher screaming hysterically while still holding a knife in her hands. As officers tried to disarm her, Spejcher plunged the knife into her neck, authorities said.
This seems like the right move to me. If you drink alcohol, you know that you’ll be impaired driving and should be held accountable. When you smoke pot, you don’t expect that you’ll stab yourself in the neck. She truly seems to be a victim just as much as the guy, even if his outcome was ultimately worse.
So they’re saying that taking a couple of bong hits made this girl stab someone 108 times and try to kill herself? Seems like she may have bigger issues than just “marijuana induced psychosis”… I’ve taken plenty of bong hits in my life and never stabbed anyone nor seen anyone else try to do so. It sounds like either that weed was laced with PCP or she has some other serious psychological issues. Either way she probably shouldn’t just be walking away from this free and clear…
Weed increases risk for psychosis. Just because it did not happen to you or anyone you know isn’t relevant here. The risk seems to be higher for higher THC content.
Oh cool, so if I go drink a bottle of Everclear and do a few lines of coke I can go on a killing spree and not go to jail or get committed to an insane asylum? I just get to walk away? If I consumed all of that I most certainly wouldn’t be “in my right mind”. Is that how this loophole works, or is it only for THE DEVILS LETTUCE?
No, because a psychosis is not the same as a drug trip.
Well, cocaine induced psychosis and alcohol induced psychosis are both very real things, so I should be able to get as drunk and coked up as I want and face zero consequences like this lady did right?
If you get a psychosis because of it, yes. Not if you just exhibit the normal effects of the drug you took. Your gotcha argument does not work.
No, what doesn’t work is this strawman nonsense implying that marijuana is somehow more dangerous than any of these other things. If she had gotten drunk and claimed “psychosis” she would have been laughed out of the courtroom and sent straight to jail. This idea that smoking weed once will cause you to become criminally insane is the same nonsense that was played up when weed was made illegal in the first place.
Who spouts this strawman nonsene? You are building it, because apparently your drug of choice is attacked in your interpretation. The psychosis was diagnosed and the clinical manifestation of it is completely different from a normal weed trip. People should definitely know, that this can happen, what the chances are, that higher THC content is riskier and what predispositions could feed into it. The same holds true for other drugs. You know, so that consumers can make informed choices about the stuff they consume.