Death by Marijuana

Suspect in Allina Clinic shooting 67-year-old Gregory Ulrich was a pothead,

1 dead, 4 injured. 
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• What happened today in MN was another one of those acts of mass violence that was suspect, so on a whim, I searched for the suspect’s name along with the term  “marijuana”.  Note what was found below in just seconds:

“He also more recent citations for possession of a small amount of marijuana and drug paraphernalia in August 2020, a similar citation in 2014,...”
https://bringmethenews.com/minnesota-news/police-identify-suspect-in-allina-clinic-shooting-as-67-year-
“Zandstra said Ulrich was frequently high on pain killers and witnessed him sniff model glue, smoke marijuana, drink excessively, and "just sit on the couch high."  https://www.fox9.com/news/former-roommate-buffalo-suspect-had-history-of-drugs-mental-problems
Court records for Ulrich list a handful of arrests and convictions for drunken driving and possession of small amounts of marijuana from 2004 through 2015, mostly in Wright County, including two convictions for gross misdemeanor drunken driving that resulted in short jail sentences. A 2018 charge of violating a harassment restraining order was dismissed last April when the prosecutor said Ulrich was “found mentally incompetent to proceed.”
https://apnews.com/article/multiple-people-shot-clinic-minnesota-1385ed48500db468259680cf20469c04
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• Senators Cory Booker (D-NJ), Ron Wyden (D-OR) and Chuck Schumer (D-NY) issue statement that “We are committed to working together to put forward and advance comprehensive cannabis reform legislation ... "

Meanwhile,   there is a report that the law firm CaseyGerry has filed a lawsuit in San Diego Superior Court on behalf of the parents of Le’Sharia Bre’Aun Steele, a 28-year old flight attendant from Alabama who died in San Diego, Calif. after reportedly consuming a KushyPunch Tropical Hybrid [marijuana THC] gummy..."

Read the lawsuit here. 

EXCERPT:

Defendants’ KushyPunch Hybrid gummies took Bre’Aun Steele’s life after she ingested them and experienced acute severe symptoms that lasted for hours, including cardiovascular, respiratory, psychiatric, and dysphoric symptoms that manifested as uncontrollable movements, terrifying heart racing, trouble breathing, and mental and physical uncharacteristic outbursts and severe panic attacks.