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SHOOTERS, TERRORISTS AND MASS KILLERS WHO USED MARIJUANA  (MONTH/YEAR)

Many people associate a peaceful, “summer of love” mentality with marijuana. Whatever peace comes over people is not long lasting, as many people develop anxiety with much pot use.  In the long run, use changes the brains in such a way that people do things they may not have done without the drug’s assault on their brains.

These violent offenders who committed or attempted mass murder were allegedly marijuana users. Some of them had psychosis and had deranged, paranoid thinking which may have been triggered by pot use.  Others are not so clear, but they appeared to lack a conscience or empathy. Scientific research tells us that people who have schizophrenia and use marijuana, instead of prescribed medicines, they become more violent and vengeful than they otherwise would be. 
  
  • 11/26/21  Ethan Crumbley allegedly shot and killed 4 students at a high school Oxford, MI.  He had a troubled history with his parents who had purchased the gun for him, but were known to leave him alone for long periods of time when he was young.  While no pot links to the shooter have been found,  "Eli Crumbley, Ethan's older half-brother who had previously worked at the same diner, was once caught with marijuana at the job and "hinted that his father and stepmother had given it to him, the diner's manager told the Daily Mail.  https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10281863/Neighbor-Michigan-school-shooter-15-claims-warned-authorities-neglected.html
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  • 08/19 Connor Betts gunned down 9 people in Dayton, Ohio.   He was a heavy drug user and belonged to a band called Menstrual Munchies.   His notebooks and diaries were very disturbing,  His hallucinations began when he was in high School. Friend Ethan Kollie said they did hard drugs as well as marijuana and acid 4 or 5 times a week for two years. https://www.yahoo.com/news/2-friend-gunman-ohio-mass-184347593.html
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  • 6/19 – Samuel Little the US’s most prolific murderer has confessed to killing more than 90 women (and admitted to 5 more in June 2019) over 6 decades has a history of burglary, breaking and entering, assault and battery, assault with the intent to rob, assault with a firearm, armed robbery, assault on a police officer, solicitation of prostitution, DUI, shoplifting, theft, grand theft, possession of marijuana, unlawful flight to avoid prosecution, resisting arrest, battery, false imprisonment, assault with great bodily injury, robbery, rape, and sodomy. https://www.thecut.com/2018/12/how-serial-killer-samuel-little-was-caught.html
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  • 5/31/2019  DeWayne Craddock shot and killed 12 employees in Virginia Beach, all co workers in his municipal office.  A neighbor who was interviewed said, “Craddock was in front of his apartment with two other people, smoking what smelled like marijuana,” but that was the only reference to drugs we found.  He was an engineer who kept to himself.  https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/01/us/virginia-beach-suspect/index.html
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  • 5/7/2019 Devon Erickson, one of the two shooters at the STEM High School in Highlands Ranch, Colorado, which killed 1 and injured 8, was a daily or near daily pot user. “Toxicologist Wanda Guidry said Devon Erickson was severely malnourished because he ingested cocaine, marijuana and cough syrup nearly daily, and he suffered from long-term sleep deprivation and insomnia, The Denver Post reported. ‘I believe it created psychiatric symptoms...disruption in mood, behavior and thinking,’ Guidry said of the drugs found in Erickson´s system hours after the shooting.”

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  • 6/18   Jeremy Webster shot 4 people in Westminster, Colorado, with road rage believed to be the motive.  He went after a woman, her two sons and a bystander. He killed the 13 year old.   He was licensed to work at medical marijuana dispensary but we don’t know much more. https://heavy.com/news/2018/06/jeremy-john-webster/
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  • 4/22/18 3 a.m. (two days after 4-20 celebrations)  Travis Reinking, the man who shot and killed 4 people in a Tennessee Wafflehouse, had mental illness and allegedly suffered from schizophrenia. (It is not clear which came first the pot use or the schizophrenia, but we know that marijuana worsens schizophrenia and compromises the treatment of the disease.)  Shortly before the incident, “Reinking wrote in a journal about plans to drive to Colorado, describing a life in which he would hang out with friends, smoke marijuana, hike in the mountains and “repossess” cars and houses so that he would not have to work, a prosecutor said.” https://apnews.com/article/nashville-travis-reinking-6839ec09d4c4a743bc5c31c54b918290
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  • 2/14/18  Nikolas Cruz, the Parkland shooter, had a troubled life and developmental disabilities.  Yet he took tons of marijuana and tons of Xanax to quiet the voices in his head.  While this doesn’t show cause and effect, marijuana didn’t help his troubles and most likely exacerbated them.  He killed 17 students, injured 17, at Marjory Stoneham Douglas High School Parkland, FL  At his trial, he said: "I hate drugs, and I believe this country would do better if everyone would stop smoking marijuana and doing all these drugs and causing racism and violence out in the streets.”  https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/20/us/nikolas-cruz-parkland-shooting-guilty/index.html
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  • 11/17  Veteran Shane Kirk who suffered from PTSD, was using marijuana to wean himself from depression medication. Efforts to get him help from the VA failed. He shot and killed 2: his stepfather and wife in front of the three children. He had just returned from Colorado.
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  • 11/17 Kevin Neal a pot farmer in Northern Cal shot his wife, neighbors then went on a rampage in Red Bluff, CA shooting and killing 4, hitting a total of 14 people including children at a school. (Had history of psychosis and mental illness.  The toxicology reports that only THC was in his blood.
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  • 10/17  Malik Murphy, aged 20, murdered 2: his brother, Noah, 7 and his sister, Sophia, 5, as the family was sleeping, in Colorado Springs. Murphy and his father Vinnie then got into a fight.  As Malik tried to stab his father, another brother called 911. One of the first reports of his erratic behavior: “The parents pinpoint a specific day at school when Malik was 16. Melissa (the mom ) says he found a cell phone and instead of returning it to the lost and found, he destroyed it. https://www.kktv.com/content/news/Parents-of-son-who-murdered-his-two-younger-siblings-speak-out-461188133.html
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  • 5/17 Jeremy Christian knifed and killed 2 men who were defending the Muslim women he was attacking on public transportation in Portland, Oregon.  He had declared his love for cannabis and comic books on Facebook.  Christian’s behavior was consistent with marijuana-induced psychosis. His psych evaluation showed no consistent ideology but his only goal was to be a cannabis farmer in Brazil.  https://drive.google.com/file/d/1PfNc0guWsPzGIHYErvUUSXQen7A1Iy4c/view
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  • 6/16: Omar Mateen Orlando night club shooter admitted to using marijuana and steroids.  Clearly his anger and behavior problems went beyond pot use and went back to a very young age, including an incident in second grade when he sang “marijuana, marijuana” in school, instead of “mariposa, mariposa.”  He killed 49 people and injured 53.  (The two ABC News reports we used for this information is no longer available online.)
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  • 8/15: Jody Herring, lost custody of her child because she was erratic and tested positive for THC. She said she took THC pills for pain. She shot and killed a Vermont Social worker and 3 others who were her relatives.
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  • 7/12: Aurora, Colorado theater shooter, James Holmes, was a heavy marijuana user.  As the New York Post reported, a neighbor said that he would see him smoking pot by the garbage bins of apartment complex.  https://nypost.com/2012/07/21/massacre-suspect-trolled-web-for-sex/#ixzz21GIfphdV  It happened the summer before the vote to legalize, but Coloradans still voted to legalize and didn’t seem to notice the connection.  He killed 12 and injured 70.





  • 4/96  Timothy McVeigh, the Oklahoma City bomber, killed 168.  He was known to be a marijuana user, a vet and man with strong anti-government ideology.  

  • 1/93   The Brown’s Chicken murders in Palatine, IL killed 8 people. Juan Luna and Jim Degorski smoked marijuana afterwards. “A woman reported that they drove to her Elgin townhouse where she said the trio smoked marijuana and split the money the men said they had taken from Brown's.” Another article says they “smoked a couple of bowls” after the murders.  https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-2002-06-09-0206090449-story.html

  • 10/91 George Hennard who drove a pickup into Luby’s cafeteria in Killeen, Texas, and then shot people, killing 23 and himself. He had a previous marijuana arrest in 1989 and underwent substance abuse treatment.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luby%27s_shooting

  • 1984-1985   Richard Ramirez was convicted of murderting 13 in California.  He began smoking marijuana at age 10 with an older cousin who filled his mind lurid stories idealizing violence.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Ramirez

  • 1984 - Suzan and Michael Bear Carson were convicted of 3 bizarre murders on “Murder Mountain” in California.   https://www.thedailybeast.com/witch-killers-family-keep-them-in-jail    Michael was a stay-at-home marijuana dealer in suburban Phoenix with a degree in Chinese philosophy. His daughter said: “No one could have foreseen this—especially how weird it got. Typically your Jewish father doesn’t convert to Islam, then to radical Islam, and change it to some weird religion where they grow pot and kill gays.

  • 1983 – Bruce Blackman, a Canadian, killed 6 family members in 1983 while high on marijuana, and having psychotic break.  He was a heavy user for several years possibly triggering his paranoid schizophrenia.  According to court testimony Blackman was on an intense stone from eating and smoking marijuana.  Bruce Blackman, British Columbia, killed 6 in his family, on an intense marijuana psychosis,


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