Atlanta Man Who Killed 13 Had
Prozac. What If It Had Been Marijuana?
(Marijuananews note: I am not waging a crusade
against Prozac. Obviously, it must work for some people. Moreover, I would not argue that
marijuana will work for everyone. That is not the point. The point is simply that people
should be free to find out what works best for them. By the way, this is the third mass
shooting in which the shooter has been on a prescription anti-depressant. One other was on
Prozac, and one of the shooters at Columbine High was on a similar drug. But never mind.
That really doesn’t prove anything. Troubled people often take legal -- and illegal
-- drugs. Correlation is not causation, but think about what the Drug Czar would be saying
if they were all on marijuana!)
See
Prescriptions For
Anti-Depressants Increase 17 Percent In One Year,
But What Works Better and Faster?
The Context For Medical Marijuana. – An Article and A Letter
September 1, 1999
Police Find Prozac In Atlanta Shooter's Car
ATLANTA (Reuters) - Police found the anti-depressant drug Prozac
in the van of a stock market day trader who killed 13 people in a rampage that ended when
he shot himself, a newspaper reported Wednesday.
The Atlanta Constitution obtained a copy of a 208-page police report on the murder
spree in which Mark Barton bludgeoned to death his wife and children in their suburban
home before driving to Atlanta where he gunned down nine people at two brokerages that
handled his business as a day trader.
Atlanta police had previously refused to release their formal
report, which revealed details of the killings, including the fact that several capsules
of Prozac were found inside the van where Barton killed himself, the newspaper said.
The Georgia Bureau of Investigations has not released the results
of toxicology tests taken during an autopsy, which would show whether Barton took Prozac
in the days before the killings in late July.
(Marijuananews note: Of course, he may have been going through Prozac withdrawal.)
The shootings were the deadliest mass killings in Atlanta history and among the most
grisly in the United States, where such incidents have happened repeatedly in recent
years.
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