And now Michael Brown was a maniac doped up on ... pot?

[MohRokTah]

Anything to justify the execution of an unarmed black man by a white cop. Given his size and the fact that he was a bit overweight, Michael Brown could have been in a room where pot was being smoked as much as a month ago and never smoked it himself.

County investigation: Michael Brown was shot from the front, had marijuana in his system

Michael Brown was shot in the head and chest multiple times, according to Mary Case, the St. Louis County medical examiner.

While Case declined to comment further, citing the ongoing investigation into Brown’s death, another person familiar with the county’s investigation told The Washington Post that Brown had between six and eight gunshot wounds and was shot from the front.

In addition, Brown had marijuana in his system when he was shot and killed by a police officer on Aug. 9 in Ferguson, according to this person, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the ongoing investigation.

The report from Case’s office was released to the St. Louis County prosecutor’s office on Friday night but has not been made public. This report is part of the county’s official investigation into the shooting, but it is one of three autopsies being conducted.

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Washington Post link

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

1. I still don't remember ever seeing a case where anyone on pot

became MORE belligerent. It generally seems to either depress people or mellow them out; in either case, making them LESS agressive than normal.

[JustAnotherGen]

4. So true

Pot Makes you mellow -not aggressive.

[Blue_Tires]

12. Oh, we've had some toxicology "experts" on DU try to explain

that pot is what made Trayvon lash out at GZ...

[JustAnotherGen]

14. Yeah

I remember those folks with the sticks up their asses and whose knees didn't bend. They've never smoked weed - or they would never have written such nonsense.

[In_The_Wind]

2. Bullshit!

[mmonk]

3. More believable a person with alcohol in their system might charge a cop than pot.

Pot makes you less willing to confront authorities.

[VanGoghRocks]

21. More believable a pig with speed or steroids in his system might snap at some

"uppity N****r" and start shooting.

Oh wait, the state allowed Wilson to flee, nay aided and abetted his flight. So we'll probly never know what substances that pig had ingested before starting his shift that day (or while on duty).

They knew their little calumny about theft\assault was starting to fall apart and so this is the latest B.S. in the 'blame the victim' trope.

I hope the masses of Ferguson (make that 'Fergustan') don't buy it and keep up their resistance.

[bigtree]

5. the pot claim was made "on the condition of anonymity??"

. . . this is more of the same bullshit public defense of the officer from St Louis officials.

What absolute bullshit.

[fredamae]

6. Since the cop was the ONLY

one with a Gun! Isn't it More important to hear what HIS Tox Results are?

[JustAnotherGen]

16. I'm in total agreement

They should be able to do a hair test on him.

[Kingofalldems]

7. Come on. We're smarter than you might think.

[Chakab]

8. If he was going to get cheap cigars from a convience store, it should have been obvious

that he was partial to this particular indulgence.

This will be a Trayvon Martin redux. Weed is okay for white suburbanites to smoke on the weekends when they're in high school and college, but it's evidence of "thuggery" when used by black youth.

I had an argument with the boyfriend of an acquaintance during the Zimmerman trial. This clown was saying with a straight face that marijuana affects black men differently because we have a different chemistry to the other races.

I never cease to be astounded by the amount of ignorance that's been stirred up over the past few years.

[bigtree]

10. 'obvious' isn't prosecutable, in and of itself

. . . even if it was 'evident' to you from the purchase of cigars.

Are all cigar purchases, in your view, made for the purpose of smoking pot?

More bull.

[Ms. Toad]

19. There have been several discussions here -

before this was leaked - that explained that is what "Swisher Sweets" were used for. I recall comments along the lines that no one in their right mind would smoke them. I don't recall anyone acting surprised in those discussions - and I assumed from those discussions that there was a good chance that pot would show up.

So why the surprise and defensiveness now?

[bigtree]

23. I used to smoke them for a year, even after I had just quit cigarettes

. . . I lit them up for two important reasons:

One was during my treework job where nats and other bugs would fly into my eyes and nose at every opportunity.

The other was years later, while on my long commute home, to keep me from dozing off and wrecking my car.

I chose them because they were slim and 'sweet' as opposed to most other choices than, maybe, Tijuana smalls, which were generally more expensive.

I know well what they are used for, but, back in my youth, we also used things like toilet paper rolls with tin foil, rolled up tin foil, apples, potatoes, cigarettes, and other items to smoke my pot out of.

I think this is biased and unnecessary speculation.

[Ms. Toad]

25. A reasonable explanation

it would have been good to offer this in the initial discussion(s) about what they were used for.

My assumption, based on the earlier pretty much uncontradicted discussions, was that there was a significant possibility that he woudl have pot in his system.

It is curious that the leak seems to contradict the autopsy report commissioned by his family - at least I'm pretty sure I didn't see anything about marijuana in that report.

[Chakab]

20. 1. I'm on Brown's side.

2. I hate to break this to you, but people don't smoke the kind of cheap cigars that are sold in convenience stores for pleasure. They use them to roll blunts. (I had plenty of personal experience in this area when I was in my teens and twenties.)

3. None of that has anything whatsoever to do with the shooting.

[bigtree]

24. I don't believe you're speaking out of experience with cigar smoking

I worked with a number of gentlemen who smoked that brand. I remember that very well.

It may well be the case, but I find the surety in which some are speaking about it to be unreliable as 'evidence' and extremely speculative.

[cvoogt]

28. That's right

Brown would only purchase the finest Cuban cigars, of course.

[JJChambers]

9. Marijuana does not make folks aggressive

Is it possible that marijuana use is just so common, that some people are going to have marijuana in their system no matter what, and that it really doesn't contribute to their actions preceding death?

[rurallib]

11. Only someone who believed "Reefer Madness" was a documentary

could take such bullshit seriously
Cue Fox News .........

[arcane1]

13. I assumed that what he was buying the cigars for in the first place.

[underpants]

15. I did too but I don't see what difference it makes

So let's say he smoked pot. Okay, what does that have to do with the cop, clearly , taking headshots at him?

This info is meant for RW racist "he deserved it" bullshit.

[arcane1]

18. Exactly. It has zero relevance.

[octoberlib]

17. He wasn't shot in the chest, was he?

This whole report is bullshit.

[lpbk2713]

22. Has somebody been listening to Limbaugh?

These are the first words I would expect out of his sewer hole.

[DrewFlorida]

26. The victim had marijuana in his system and the murderer had hate in his!

I'm disgusted with the Ferguson Police Department's propaganda war against a murder victim. I'm disgusted by the way police departments in general allow their officers to trample citizens civil and constitutional rights. I'm disgusted by roughly 50% of America turning a blind eye to systemic racism.

[gollygee]

27. Who is the anonymous person throwing out irrelevant stuff?

And it doesn't say how much he had in his system I notice. If it were enough to make him high, I bet we would have heard that.

[gollygee]

29. Was Wilson given a drug test?

I know in construction if one of a number of things happens, the insurance company makes you give the people involved a drug test.

[WinkyDink]

30. I heard he bought it from Trayvon Martin.