Posted on 04/16/2014 8:55:19 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
A Denver, Colorado mother has been shot dead in front of her children by her 'hallucinating' while she was on a 13 minute call to 911, police said.
Kristine Kirk, 44, called for help around 9:30p.m. Monday, telling dispatchers that her husband Richard Kirk, 47, was 'talking about the end of the world' and 'scarring' their three children. A source told FOX31 investigators are looking at whether he had eaten a marijuana cookie.
Mrs Kirk said in the 911 call that there was a gun in the house but it was in a safe, according to a probable cause statement.
'She then said that her husband retrieved the gun from the safe and she began to scream,' the statement reads. A gunshot could then be heard followed by silence.
Officers arrived on the scene shortly after the shooting.
'They were almost there,' Sonny Jackson, a Denver Police Department spokesman, told The Denver Post.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
It’s true.
Why would a legitimate business do something illegal that gains no profit for them?
I had an experience similar to yours after unwittingly eating several pot brownies. (They were delicious so I had another and another, you see.) I hallucinated all night, wouldn’t let a friend come in because I thought there was a monster wobbling behind her as she stood in my doorway, asking to come in from the snow. I was terrified and struggled with how to tell her she was in peril. Later I realized it was just her large, black orchestral bass case, the little metal feet above the neck looked like demonic metal eyes.
Good luck, Colorado.
Some questions I like to ask the Dopes about its status in Colorado...some on this thread may attempt to answer:
1. If marijuana is harmless, should there be an age restriction? If so, why?
2. Should a pregnant woman smoke marijuana? If not - why?
3. Should people on welfare be drug tested for marijuana?
4. Should driving under the influence of marijuana be allowed?
5. If not, what is the limit...and how is it tested?
6. If a driver/pilot/train conductor has marijuana in his system after an accident, should he be criminally charged?
7. Should a CDL truck driver (who has a 0.0 BAC limit for DUI) have a similar prohibition against weed? If so, why?
8. How many hard drug users do you know, who never tried marijuana?
9. Is marijuana addictive? If not, why did Ricky Williams quit football to go smoke?
The answers you get to these questions will be evasive, and full of conspiracy theories about the DEA and beer companies...and will generally have a paranoid tone.
You can’t argue with a stoner.
Pot the cause? It may have contributed as EATING the stuff often leads to overdose (not the kind that kills the body).
I've seen people so high after eating the stuff they were literally non-functioning and unable to grasp even a sliver of reality.
They usually just crawl into a closet, alone, until it goes away.
It's VERY STRONG and mind-altering.
If someone ever gave me some food laced with dope without telling me, I swear to God, I would kill them.
I’m in complete agreement. But that said, when seconds count, help is just minutes away...
Adding to your point...
Recently Nightline did a story on ‘glass’. Glass is a highly concentrated form of marijuana, where close to pure THC is extracted down into a paste.
They interviewed a guy in Colorado who sold it. He stated that he wouldn’t sell it to somebody who wasn’t a regular user of marijuana, because that would be dangerous.
Wasn’t that an admission, from a tie dye wearing marijuana dealer, that the drug has powerful effects?
Sure, that’s because she tried pot immediately after dropping acid. ;-)
You are correct. Ingestion will screw up even the most experienced and relegate them to babbling fools looking for a place to hide.
Only fools eat the stuff.
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Possibly. But do we know where he got the cookie from? or where he got the pot to make the cookie? I was just brainstorming with the idea of the pot being laced. I strongly suspect that there are some pieces of the puzzle we’re not privy to yet and those pieces will make the whole effed up situation a lot clearer.
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The headline and the text of the article are not in agreement. The title specifically says he ate a spacecake.
In the text of the article, the following statement is made: “A source told FOX31 investigators are looking at whether he had eaten a marijuana cookie.”
The only other reference to MJ in the article comes waaay down at the bottom “we are looking at marijuana as a possible part of the investigation ...”
Sounds delusional and paranoid which is often a side effect. I wouldn’t read too much into initial reporting by today’s “journalists”.
Have you had the kind they hybridize now?
Cuban, please note freeagle’s comment and mine above.
Yep.
Giving any drug to someone without their knowledge should be a felony and probably is.
I’ve been doing some research on the effects of mj and they are far, far from benign. Just as bad as over use of alcohol if not more so. Most people who commit crimes are on drugs and/or alcohol but usually drugs are involved, and most often, mj. It is far, far from benign.
And now it is hybridized to be so potent it’s completely unlike the stuff people smoked in the late 60s/70s. Can’t even compare.
Yeah, laced with THC.
Have you ever seen somebody who has eaten too much pot?
Don't get me wrong, I think it's up to the states to decide if they want it legal or not.
But to suggest that IF he was overdosed on edibles that the pot had to be laced with something is naive.
Yes, it will cause hallucinations and paranoia in overdose. A gram cooked into a cookie will send most people looking for a place to hide.
How long ago was your pot brownie incident? If it was years ago, mj is very different now.
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