Abstract
Marijuana is currently a growing risk to the public in the United States. Following expanding public opinion that marijuana provides little risk to health, state and federal legislatures have begun changing laws that will significantly increase accessibility of marijuana. Greater marijuana accessibility, resulting in more use, will lead to increased health risks in all demographic categories across the country. Violence is a well-publicized, prominent risk from the more potent, current marijuana available. We present cases that are highly popularized storylines in which marijuana led to unnecessary violence, health risks, and, in many cases, both. Through the analysis of these cases, we will identify the adverse effects of marijuana use and the role it played in the tragic outcomes in these and other instances. In the analysis of these cases, we found marijuana as the single most common, correlative variable in otherwise diverse populations and circumstances surrounding the association of violence and marijuana.
Highlights
Michael Brown robbed a convenience store for a large box of cigarillos to smoke marijuana and assaulted the store clerk
We present cases that are highly popularized storylines in which marijuana led to unnecessary violence, health risks, and, in many cases, both
In the analysis of these cases, we found marijuana as the single most common, correlative variable in otherwise diverse populations and circumstances surrounding the association of violence and marijuana
Summary
We apply the results of the research regarding the role of marijuana in violence. We use concepts such as personality changes, perpetrator violence, and psychosis to establish our association of marijuana with the unfortunate cases. Marijuana use likely created the fear and aggressive behavior due to poor judgment and threatening perceptions induced by marijuana, contribution to Martin’s death [19,23]. The intoxication from the use of marijuana likely caused McDonald to slash a cop car’s tire, as he was known to be respectful and reserved His life would have been saved without marijuana induced aggressiveness and poor judgments, and senseless, high risk actions towards police [19,23]. Guilford was preoccupied with and user of marijuana at a relatively young age His marijuana use likely contributed to the change in his personality to be aggressive and assaultive to provoke his death in a high risk police stop [19,23]. Without marijuana use and subsequent psychosis, many deaths may not have occurred [31,55,56]
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