{"id":2602,"date":"2004-09-26T15:14:35","date_gmt":"2004-09-26T19:14:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2004\/09\/26\/losing-heads-to-reefer-madness\/"},"modified":"2004-09-26T15:14:35","modified_gmt":"2004-09-26T19:14:35","slug":"losing-heads-to-reefer-madness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2004\/09\/26\/losing-heads-to-reefer-madness\/","title":{"rendered":"Losing Heads to Reefer Madness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a3889'><\/a><\/p>\n<table width=\"537\" border=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td width=\"537\">\n<p align=\"left\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/reefermad.jpg\" width=\"302\" height=\"425\" align=\"left\"><em>Maybe<br \/>\n        marijuana <u><strong>can<\/strong><\/u> be hazardous to one&#8217;s health &#8211;<br \/>\n        or at least to the health of those around the addict. Do we detect a<br \/>\n        potential election<br \/>\n          scandal in the fact that the pot killer, who is still at large, fled<br \/>\n      into the Bush? Could the killer weed be responsible for the current<br \/>\n        rash of beheading in Iraq as well? We have long heard rumors of killer Iraqui hash, and  are sure John Ashcroft will investigate&#8230;..<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">BLANTYRE, Malawi (Reuters) &#8211; A Malawian man believed<br \/>\n          to be high on marijuana<br \/>\n          beheaded<br \/>\n          two women<br \/>\n          with<br \/>\n          an axe<br \/>\n          Friday,<br \/>\n          police<br \/>\n          in<br \/>\n          the southern<br \/>\n          African<br \/>\n          country said.<\/p>\n<p>        The man, in his mid-20s, beheaded a 52-year-old woman while she worked<br \/>\n        in her garden with her daughter and did the same to a 68-year-old friend<br \/>\n        who came to the daughter&#8217;s aid, police spokesman Kelvin Maigwa told Reuters.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;The unsuspecting woman greeted the stranger who, instead, threw<br \/>\n        the axe at her, aiming at the chest,&quot; Maigwa said.<\/p>\n<p>        He said police found marijuana, or hemp, when they searched the suspect&#8217;s<br \/>\n        home.<br \/>\n&quot;The house was full of stench from recently smoked hemp. We believe<br \/>\n        he had an overdose of the hemp that made him go berserk,&quot; Maigwa<br \/>\n        said, adding that the walls of the house bore quotations from famous<br \/>\n        reggae<br \/>\n        songs.<\/p>\n<p>        Police have launched a manhunt for the killer, who fled into the Bush<br \/>\n      after the attacks. <\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">from <a href=\"http:\/\/news.excite.com\/odd\/article\/id\/429035|oddlyenough|09-24-2004::12:47|reuters.html\">Reuters<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maybe marijuana can be hazardous to one&#8217;s health &#8211; or at least to the health of those around the addict. Do we detect a potential election scandal in the fact that the pot killer, who is still at large, fled &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2004\/09\/26\/losing-heads-to-reefer-madness\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1443],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-esl-links"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2602\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}