Victimless Crime File: Crazed Hippy Poisons Brain Injury Support Group with Pot Laced Cake

Posted on July 3, 2008 by Rob Taylor

Virgil Hales is a marijuana legalization activist who was said by friends to believe pot was a “cure all” whatever that means. He ran for office and most recently garnered 316 votes out of 17,000 cast. Hales was also active in a brain injury support group and there is some talk of him having suffered a brain injury himself.

One day it seems Hales wanted to prove to his friends that pot was a miracle drug so he made a pot laced cake to give to his friends. Unaware of his little experiment they partook of the cake in which the chronic pot smoker might have used too much cannabis for people unused to getting high:

One woman who ate two pieces of the cake says she collapsed and was taken to the hospital. Roxanne Loget tells Action News, she felt she was going to die. “There was a point when I really did believe I was dying. I actually began to get back to normal, and I started to think about this, that I was tripping on cannabis.”

As a town council candidate, the legalization of marijuana was Hales’ primary platform, and according to support group members, it was about all he talked about at their meetings.

District Attorney Mike Ramsey says Hales “was not a well person.” While group members feel badly for Hales, they feel violated and want him to pay for his crime.

Before the comments even start I grew up in the 70s and 80s and I have seen people who have smoked too much pot “trip” and have bad reactions so no crap about it being harmless.

Hales was declared incompetent to stand trial and sent to a hospital.

There is a Virgil Hales listed in as a Green party Parliamentarian in the crank “mini-state” project in California. There are references to Hales on several legalization websites, maybe if he spent as much time on his mental health as he did on crazed hippydom he’d be a free man now.

The question for legalization advocates is won’t there be more crimes like this after legalization?

KHSlTV has video.

But Pot Doesn’t Hurt Anyone! However Pot Smokers Kill Babies and Break a Lot of Laws

Posted on June 16, 2008 by Rob Taylor

It’s a subtle distinction my friends, and one that is best illustrated by pot smoking miscreant Yasheika Battle who’s having a hard time keeping out of trouble even though she’s being investigated for the death of her infant son.

The son who died after she was arrested on the maternity ward for smoking pot just two days after giving birth to him. She was smoking pot in the maternity ward.

Unsurprisingly, she’s in trouble with the law again and her little son is dead:

NORWALK – A city woman whose baby died almost three months after she was charged with smoking marijuana in her maternity room was arrested on a probation violation charge yesterday.

Yasheika Battle, 29, of 45 Ely Ave. and 20 Oak St., Norwalk, was arrested when she arrived at state Superior Court in Norwalk.

Her infant son, Justin Ali, died May 8. The baby; his father, Zamil Ali, and Battle were sleeping in the same bed that night.

The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner has not determined what caused the 11-week-old baby’s death.

Although Battle and Ali were investigated, no charges have been filed.

During Battle’s arraignment yesterday, the probation department’s recommendation of a $10,000 bond was reduced to a written promise to appear in court.

Battle was convicted Nov. 1, 2006, of second-degree criminal damage of property, according to an arrest warrant affidavit. She was then given a one-year prison sentence, suspended after six months served and followed by three years of probation.

On Feb. 14, she was arrested on the possession of a controlled substance charge.

Battle was found by a Norwalk Hospital nursing supervisor standing in a hallway in her hospital gown and socks dripping wet, the affidavit states; she appeared disoriented.

When the nurse went into her bathroom to turn off the running shower, she spotted a pack of matches on the sink and a “brown tobacco-like butt in the toilet,” the affidavit said.

The real crime here is that Connecticut Child Services allowed this train wreck to keep her child after being arrested time after time for getting high and acting stupid. By the gods, this woman is almost 30 and she’s getting high in a maternity ward. What activity could scream unfit parent louder and clearer than that?

Justin Ali is dead not because pot is illegal, but because pot smokers are bad parents. I know that people will argue the point that legalization will lower crime, but Justin would have died whether pot was legal or not and that’s the kind of crime legalization could never lower.

h/t Trench

Victimless Crime File: Robert Cisero Smashes Daughter’s Ankle with Hammer to Get Pain Pills

Posted on June 13, 2008 by Rob Taylor

The pills were for himself of course. His daughter suffered without them:

MEDFORD, Ore. — A 46-year-old Medford man is in jail, accused of striking his teenage daughter’s ankle with a hammer so he could use the pain pills she would receive.

Authorities say Robert Cisero drove his daughter to the Providence Hospital parking lot where he struck her in the ankle with a hammer.

He then told hospital doctors the bruises on his daughter’s ankle were from a skating accident. About a month later, the daughter told someone else what actually happened and that person contacted police.

Medford Police Detective Sergeant Mike Budreau says Cisero is addicted to pain medication — and has been for some time. Budreau says Cisero has a criminal history stretching back to the early 1990s.

But people taking drugs aren’t criminals right? They at best need help, but we should just legalize drugs and be done with it, right?

Bull. Drug addicts commit horrendous crimes when they run out of money, and they ALL run out of money. Drug education must teach kids that this is the real face of the drug culture.

The Mail Tribune has more details:

Cisero, who lives in the 500 block of Pennsylvania Avenue, was indicted Tuesday in Jackson County Circuit Court on charges of first-degree criminal mistreatment and fourth-degree assault. The mistreatment charge, a felony, stems from Cisero causing harm to someone in his care, Budreau said.

“Even if the girl originally agreed to go along with the plan, Cisero is still her father and is ultimately responsible for her well-being,” Budreau said.

Cisero has a criminal history stretching back to the early 1990s. He has had several restraining orders placed against him, as well as convictions on felony weapons, theft, forgery and drug charges, court records show.

On Tuesday, the court barred Cisero from contact with his daughter or any minor, records show.

“We are seeing an increasing problem with addiction to prescription pain medication,” Budreau said. “It’s much like any other drug when it comes to the damage it causes.”

Cisero hurt his daughter so he could get high. He belongs in jail, then Hell.

h/t Crime Scene KC

But Pot Doesn’t Hurt Anyone! Unless You’re At The Zoo

Posted on June 4, 2008 by Rob Taylor

It shocked no one I’m sure to find that the teen who was mauled to death by a tiger at the San Francisco Zoo was high. It’s horrible that this young man’s life was cut short due in large part to a culture of acceptance of drug use. This kid got high, and he either teased the tiger or climbed the retaining fence or did something silly and paid the ultimate price.

But pot isn’t to blame at all, right?

SAN FRANCISCO â€” The San Francisco Medical Examiner says a teenager who was killed by an escaped zoo tiger six months ago had marijuana and alcohol in his system.

The toxicology report was released Monday. It is included with an autopsy that concluded 17-year-old Carlos Sousa Jr. was killed by “blunt force injuries of the head and neck.”

Sousa’s two friends also were seriously injured when a 250-pound Siberian tiger escaped its enclosure at San Francisco Zoo on Christmas Day.

Michael Cardoza, a lawyer for the Sousa family, says it’s irrelevant whether the teen was drinking or smoking pot before he was mauled. The family is suing the city.

The wall surrounding the tiger’s enclosure was found to be 4 feet lower than recommended

Yeah. Irrelevant. Thousands of other people walked by the enclosure and weren’t mauled, but the fact that three kids who were high managed to get themselves mauled has nothing to do with drug use.

The parents should be suing the scum who sold the pot to those kids in the first place.

Pot Smoking Degenerate David Nicholas Delich Kills Police Officer

Posted on June 3, 2008 by Rob Taylor

The man who ambushed several police officers in Arizona, one of whom has died, had a long history of “minor’ drug violations and mental illness. Reporter Brady McCombs dug up some of his history on the man, which includes Marijuana violations and possession of drug paraphernalia. At this time it is believed he never spent time in prison but was well known to law enforcement.

The shooting spree apparently was the culmination of several weeks of bizarre behavior by the drug addled Delich:

Investigators believe the suspect confronted a neighbor several weeks ago, which in turn may have led to his allegedly firing several dozen rounds Sunday into the neighbor’s home and another next door.

The shots and calls to 911 triggered a cross-town chase by sheriff’s deputies and Tucson police and resulted in Hite’s shooting, which was sandwiched between less serious shooting injuries to two sheriff’s deputies.

Rick Kastigar, Pima County Sheriff’s criminal investigations chief, said Delich and the neighbor share a common open space between their back yards. He said Delich allegedly engaged the neighbor in “an unprovoked verbal confrontation” about six weeks ago.

The neighbor brushed off the incident, but three weeks later Delich allegedly climbed onto the homeowner’s back wall and made additional “inquisitive and nonsensical” but nonthreatening comments, Kastigar said.

On Sunday morning, about 40 rounds were fired into the neighbor’s home with an assault-style rifle, and a similar number of shots hit the home next door, Kastigar said.

“It’s our belief that that may be what precipitated the gunman firing on the one home,” he said. “We don’t know if there was any confrontation or there were words exchanged” with residents in the second home.

Attorney Brick Storts, who has represented both Delich and his father before, and who appeared on the suspect’s behalf at Monday’s initial appearance, agreed with Kastigar’s assessment. “I do know there was a confrontation with some neighbors, and that may well be what started this whole series of events,” Storts said.

His behavior was clearly escalating. As I’ve blogged before, Marijuana use has been linked to mental illness by reputable medical sources:

A study published in the British Medical Journal found those using cannabis before the age of 15 are four times as likely to develop psychotic illness by 26. A Lancet study in 2007 estimated that 14 per cent of 15- to 34-year-olds affected by schizophrenia are ill because of heavy cannabis use. And recent analysis of 35 major studies concluded that cannabis use increased the risk of psychotic illness later in life by approximately 40 per cent and by up to 200 per cent among heavy users.

Many experts in mental health say they now have more than enough evidence to understand that cannabis is not the safe drug of popular myth.

‘We have been campaigning for many years about the links between cannabis and psychiatric illness, and highlighting evidence that the drug may not only precipitate psychotic breakdown but cause long-term mental damage,’ says Marjorie Wallace, chief executive of the mental health charity Sane.

Not settled science by any means, but in cases like this where a person goes on a seemingly motiveless rampage, drug use can provide clues as to why the irrational seemed reasonable to the perpetrator.