Anyway, expecting the inevitable claim that marijuana is a peaceful drug, I drew up a list of the major crimes, some political, some not, whose perpetrators or alleged perpetrators have been found, either through police records or the testimony of their acquaintances, to be cannabis users.
I thought I'd reproduce it here. The order is random. The usual caveat applies. All I am saying here is that ultra-violent crime is a subset of crime as a whole, which is distinguished by being thoroughly covered by the media. This information is available about the criminals which is not available about most criminals.
I would like to see the police and courts compelled by law to investigate and record the drug use of all persons convicted of violent crime, and for the results of this recording to be the subject of an inquiry into an apparent correlation. That is all. Anyone who says I have said anything else is making it up. They will. Please disregard it.
All the following are known cannabis users:
- The mass killer on the beach in Sousse, Tunisia, Seifeddine Rezgui.
- Jared Loughner, culprit of the 2008 Tucson massacre in which six died and Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords was terribly wounded.
- Deyan Deyanov, killer (by beheading) of Jennifer Mills-Westley in Tenerife,
- Nicholas Salavador, killer, by decapitation, of Mrs Palmira Silva in London,
- Michael Adebolajo and Michael Adebowale killers of Lee Rigby,
- Cherif and Said Kouachi, and Ahmedy Coulibaly, culprits of the Charlie Hebdo Killings.
- Ibrahim and Saleh Abdeslam, and Omar Ismail Mostefai, culprits of the Bataclan killings in Paris last November,
- Martin Rouleau, killer of an unnamed Canadian soldier (unnamed by the choice of his family) in St Jean-sur-Richelieu in October 2014,
- Michael Zehaf Bibeau, killer of another Canadian soldier,
- Nathan Cirillo in Ottawa, also in October 2014,
- Jonathan Bowling and Ashley Foster, killers of the Sheffield church organist Alan Greaves, beaten to death for no reason,
- Ayoub el-Khazzani who attempted a terrorist outrage on the Thalys train between Amsterdam and Paris.
Who is next?????