Has anyone here ever actually witnessed or experienced violence from marijuana use?

[CatWoman]

I'm watching an old Dragnet episode in which a junior high schooler threw punches at his teacher after smoking a joint (Juvenile: The Little Pusher; Season 12, Episode 6) .

I'm not aware, I've never been aware that smoking pot made people act in such a way.

Alcohol yes. But not marijuana.

[dewsgirl]

1. Never, ever not once.

[Flaleftist]

2. Yes.

One time, I violently tore open a bag of Doritos after smoking a bowl. The chips flew everywhere. It would have been a big mess if not for the dogs.

[CatWoman]

6. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

[Cha]

28. lol Peace and Love, baby

[Guilded Lilly]

42. Gahhhh! 100% smiling here 🤣

[Doreen]

45. Are you still in therapy for that?

[Flaleftist]

47. I got over it fast.

I had a second bag in the pantry.

[Doreen]

50. Ahh, the second bag. The true therapy.

[brooklynite]

3. What about fights over the last bag of potato chips?

[rzemanfl]

4. Ask any Hostess cupcake. Oh, wait....

can you still do that?

[OAITW r.2.0]

5. I viciousy attacked a cherry pie one time.

Absolurely destroyed it after I smoked a significant# of bong hits.

[Voltaire2]

7. If anything pot increases inhibitions rather

than decreasing them as alcohol does. However there are violent people who smoke pot.

[Seedersandleechers]

8. Check out Dragnet Blue Boy

It's an LSD episode. So funny.

[CatWoman]

11. hey thanks

will watch it later (three stooges on right now)

[CanonRay]

62. Trump, Barr, Miller?

[Cartoonist]

46. Is that the episode

Where Joe says they'll never legalize pot?

Over his dead body.

[Clash City Rocker]

9. The second Dragnet series was total reefer madness

The first black and white Dragnet series from the fifties was a far better show, but I don’t know where you’d even see it today.

And no, pot basically has the opposite effect. It makes a person too placid, if anything. I’ve never heard of a guy going psycho because he smoked a joint.

[notdarkyet]

41. It made my brother and I laugh like crazy while we sat at the drive in on the roof of the car.

[CatWoman]

61. speaking of which, found this

[yonder]

71. Some 40+ years ago my brother pointed out that

Sgt. Friday's badge number was 714. As in the number on script quaaludes. Ironic, eh? I always get a laugh thinking about poor, uptight #714 Joe.

Some things you just can't forget.

[flibbitygiblets]

10. zzzzzzzzzzzzzz...what? Um, no.

[Lochloosa]

12. Well. There was this one guy who kept bogarting the joint.

Now that's old school.

[malaise]

13. Never and you know where I live

people smoke, eat, laugh, laugh, eat and sleep

[sheshe2]

57. No sex?

[malaise]

67. I almost added

had great sex

[sheshe2]

68. ;)

[tblue37]

14. I once got such a giggle high that I laughed rather violently. nt

[hvn_nbr_2]

15. Couple thoughts

I think that Dragnet episode was just another manifestation of reefer madness.

I read years ago about somebody asking lots of cops to name the last time they had to deal with violence from somebody who was high on pot but with no other drugs in them. None of the cops, surprisingly to many of them, could think of a single case. This was years ago when I read it, and I obviously have no link.

On the other hand, supposedly the feared ancient Parthian warriors got high on cannabis to go into battle. Also, supposedly the word "assassin" is derived from "hashish" because certain assassins in certain cultures used it to get up for doing their deeds. I'm skeptical, although I can sorta kinda imagine the possibility of deliberately using the altered state to get into a mental zone. I think it would take practice and social conditioning to achieve those results.

I've never seen any violence, but I have seen plenty of cases where people just dropped some disagreement or tension because, being high, they just weren't interested in conflict.

[shanti]

16. Alcohol + weed?

It's the alcohol that causes the violence. But like someone else said, some people are just assholes.

[spanone]

17. Sixties still had a lot of 'Reefer Madness' mentality

Reefer Madness ( Movie )

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reefer_Madness

[Autumn]

18. I tore the shit out of a pizza the other day.

[BootinUp]

19. No. But it probably is based on

a profile of a troubled youth.

[marble falls]

22. You've been around a lot of people who were high, you just didn't know it.

[Cha]

29. lol

[marble falls]

36. Much rather I'd be around a pot head than a drunk or an idiot.

[marble falls]

69. No matter where you go, there you are. There's no escaping reality. And there are so many things ...

that can alter one's reality that aren't recreational; one's inherent bio-chemistry for example.

[Blue_true]

58. Same here. nt

[centrarchus]

21. Never. nt

[marble falls]

23. Never. The AirBNB we're at today markets to the 420 crowd because of the very ...

few bad behavior problems they get.

[Downtown Hound]

24. I'm 43 and been a regular smoker since I was 16

And I have never witnessed a single act of violence committed by a single person under the influence of marijuana in all that time. And that's probably thousands of people at this point.

Alcohol? That's a much different story.

[TDale313]

25. No, not an effect Pot tends to have.

But a good moral panic doesn’t need any basis in actual reality.

[Newest Reality]

26. Never!

Oh, and our we out of Doritos? Already? Bummer.

[Hoyt]

27. No violence, but Willie Nelson said on a talk show that weed almost killed him.

He said he had a bale on a high shelf. Got on a ladder, but the bale fell hitting him on the head and knocked him off.

[marble falls]

38. BTW: I'd like to get a copy of your reading list!

[Quixote1818]

30. It caused me to violently

eat fudge one night.

[Arkansas Granny]

31. No, never.

[cynatnite]

32. Only if Doritos are involved. :) n/t

[NightWatcher]

33. Wait wut?

[Kahuna7]

35. Nope. nt

[Demobrat]

37. Smoking it, no.

Dealing it, yes. Money makes people violent.

[Chemisse]

39. Yes - violent fits of giggling!

Maybe even enough to cause a minor injury to laugh-related muscles!

[CareerGuyMA]

40. This vs. That

4 drunk guys start a fight.
4 guys smoking marijuana start a band!

[Guilded Lilly]

43. Not once. But there was always a risk of watching my (grown)son laugh till he passed out.

[SWBTATTReg]

44. The only time I've heard was that it was tainted w/ something else too. From news stories in

the past...

[Sedona]

48. An entire package of Oreos was never seen again

[KT2000]

49. not sure if this counts as violence

but I remember many times sitting in rooms with some guy pontificating about the nature of the universe. Ugh. I learned to navigate to the music appreciators. This was all back in the day.

[Miles Archer]

51. No, but I HAVE witnessed:

1). Sex

2). Intense movie viewing

3). Extended periods of laughter

4). Sex

5). Guitar playing and / or listening to music, often for hours on end

6). Intense relaxation

7). An increased interest in anything that tastes good

8). Sex

Those are the side effects I have witnessed.

[doc03]

52. I have witnessed them driving really slow. nt

[H2O Man]

53. Hmmmmm....

Really loud, prolonged laughter more than a few times. Good music. Food. But fights? No.

[Cousin Dupree]

54. One time I tore the hell out of a large spoonful of peanut butter dipped into chocolate chips and

then into a jar of marshmallow creme. Other than that, never.

[doc03]

55. My brother smoked marijuana all his life but

when he was found dead at 48 on the kitchen floor there was an empty bottle of vodka in his hand.

[saidsimplesimon]

59. You reminded me of a true dog story. It was funny

at the time:

About 30 some years ago, I was awakened by the ringing of my land phone (I still have a working Trimline, Western Electric). Checked the alarm clock, who could be calling at 2:10AM? It was my friend Barbara, she sounded distraught and asked if I could drive her and Max to the vet's office.

Max was a pomeranian with a golden, orange highlights, fluffy coat. He had brown eyes that twinkled with mischief. A handsome dog and very intelligent. His favorite pass time was to climb into open dresser drawers and destroy the contents.

So she says in rapid fire not amused voice, my son left a bag of marijuana in an open drawer and Max ate the whole bag and contents. To keep from laughing I asked, 1/8th or quarter? She did not laugh with me. I said I'll be there in 15 mins.

Max did not require having his stomach pumped. The vet keep him overnight for observation and Max spent the next day back home eating and sleeping. Her son was grounded.

[McCamy Taylor]

60. Only when it is laced with angel dust.

[Generic Brad]

63. There was a Dragnet on pot smoking that terrified me when I was a kid

A toddler drowned in the bathtub because the parents were too busy getting high. That episode scared the crap out of me at the thought of a parent neglecting their kid to the point where they died. That did not depict violent, but it jarred me nonetheless.

[jcgoldie]

64. No but I once got pulled over in a car my brother was driving...

...for going 10 in a 50...

[JesterCS]

65. As Robin Williams said

"you're lucky if you can find your own goddamn feet"

[Evergreen Emerald]

66. Yes--Driving Under the Influence.

[RobinA]

70. Nope

And I was in college in the ‘70’s. Not even when, at a party, I passed a joint to the person sitting next to me, I couldn’t feel my fingers, and I dropped it in her beer. They just laughed and pulled out another one.

[Skittles]

72. no

just people acting, well, dopy