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Legalization Violations
in Washington
Violence: Oct 14, 2014, 15-year-old Jaylen Fryberg shot and killed 4 students he had invited to lunch with him the school cafeteria. He killed himself, too. His Twitter account revealed that he was despondent over a breakup and was smoking a bowl of weed to get over it. The girlfriend because he smoked too much weed. November,
30, 2016, Everett: Psychotic man, pot user, took 6-year-old hostage in
bathroom while held in siege for many hours.
Policeman Jake Gutierrez was shot:
https://www.kiro7.com/news/south-sound-news/officers-death-was-sudden-and-savage-then-a-10-hour-siege/522374048
Intruders shot and killed at marijuana growhouse:
http://komonews.com/news/local/police-2-intruders-shot-killed-at-marijuana-grow-house-11-20-2015
5 teens in Everett killed a boy’s mother when she tried to defend her
son. The violent 16- and 17-year-olds who
were trying to steal the son’s marijuana and
meth.
A 17- year-old and an 18-year-old in Kent fatally shot a
20-year old over a marijuana deal.
A 16--year old murdered another
16-year-old in a Safeway parking lot,
located in Vancouver.
The victim was going to give a dealer, Jaycob
Trotter cash, but Trotter ran over Cesar Ortiz-Velasco.
In February of 2016, a 14-year-old and
a 16-year-old murdered another 16-year old over
pot, In Federal Way.
The two
teens who shot and injured each other over a
pot deal in Lynnwood, Washington on May 12, 2017,
survived.
In September, 2016, a 20-year-old killed an 18-year-old and a 16-year-old
over a bag of weed in Tukwila, Washington.
Hamza Warsame, 16, died from
jumping six stories to his death while under
the influence of marijuana. It was the first time
he used marijuana which was legally purchased by a 21-year-old.
He must have gone psychotic.
Arcan Cetin, another under-aged Washington state pot user,
in 2016, used marijuana
for his PTSD
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cascade-mall-shooting-suspect-arcan-cetin-zombie-like-arrested-washington/
Crashes including fatalities involving marijuana in Washington
Scotty Rowles was high when he hit a pedestrian in Vancouver on December
12, 2012, at 5:50 p.m. .
He admitted to smoking a little bowl 1-1/2
hours before the crash.
A driver was stoned when he hit 7-year old Cadence
Boyer on Halloween in Vancouver, Washington. She died two days later.
The little girl’s mother and her 6-year old friend were also
hospitalized, but survived. The driver, 47-year old Duane C. Abbot told
police that he smokes two to three grams of marijuana a day, and that
he had smoked about a few hours before the
crash.
3 Everett teens killed in SUV crash while driver high on marijuana,
summer 2017. They were Landon Staley, 16, and Travis Nelson-Phongpiou,
16, of Everett and Mikayla Sorenson, 15, Bothell:
https://patch.com/washington/edmonds/marijuana-factor-crash-killed-3-teens-police
3 killed on I-5 when driver was high on marijuana and Xanax, March 2018,
in Lakewood. Jaime Pelayo Pelayo, Kelso, Sherry Rodriguez, Kelso and
Yanez Martin Rodriguez, Longview,
http://www.theolympian.com/news/local/article204290254.html
Cheyllyn Collingsworth was high school senior killed by driver high on
marijuana shortly before graduation in May, 2017:
http://www.chronline.com/news/driver-arrested-for-vehicular-homicide-in-crash-that-killed-centralia/article_ca800fcc-77d7-11e7-a378-4bb5a240150d.html
Driver who used marijuana everyday killed two teens on sidewalk, and
injured two others. He was a
daily pot smoker who said he hadn’t smoked yet that day. Shane Ormiston,
18, and Gabriel Anderson, 15, died on June 10, 2015:
http://www.bellinghamherald.com/news/local/crime/article23820043.html
Driver who killed teacher-jogger Amy Higgins had twice the limit of THC,
in March, 2017:
https://www.kitsapsun.com/story/news/2017/09/05/driver-twice-legal-amount-pot-iwas-running-late-and-took-eyes-off-road-just-before-fatal-crash-jogge/635966001/
Motorcyclist who died in Snohomish County had 8 times the legal limit
for marijuana:
https://www.heraldnet.com/news/motorcyclist-killed-in-crash-had-high-level-of-thc/
Tyler Martels, a 27-year-old who
had beaten opiate pill addiction and resisted the temptation to drink
alcohol, took advantage of the state’s marijuana legalization and
smoked pot before driving.
He drove into another car and was killed instantly.
His girlfriend and fiancée
Stephanie Profitt, hung onto to life for six more weeks but died on
January 19, 2013. Another
man is a paraplegic because of this crash.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IescnPn0Vw
This mother talks to student groups about impaired driving.
http://www.scnews.com/news/article_36eb25fc-dd5c-11e4-9fbb-938a1dcb4ad1.html
http://www.poppot.org/2016/12/07/deaths-legal-pot-immediate-in-washington/
Blake Gaston,
a 23-year-old, met his mother for dinner and then left on his
motorcycle. He was
immediately hit and killed by a stoned driver on October 4, 2013.
http://q13fox.com/2013/12/20/driver-accused-of-being-high-on-pot-arrested-on-vehicular-homicide-charge/ In January, 2015, Kassidy Clark, Jenna Farley and Luther Stroudermire were killed by a classmate who drove stoned. The driver,Marcus McKay survived, but his classmates perished. The parents of these teens feel he got off too lightly: The three who died were from Olympic High School, in Kitsap County, Port Orchard, WA. http://q13fox.com/2015/01/12/olympic-high-student-charged-with-3-counts-of-vehicular-homicide-after-deadly-crash/ 3
teens dead all for the joy of driving stoned, and the drive was
inconsiderate of them and the families.
Stoned driving accident, Lacey, seriously hurts pedestrian, Feb.27,
driver was stoned but also under the legal age for using pot:
http://www.theolympian.com/news/local/article135359714.html
Wrong-way driver Patrick
L.
Martin Jr. killed
Jennifer
Barry of Beaverton, Oregon, July 4, 2015, when he crashed his car
into hers on Interstate 5, in Thurston County. He pled guilty to charges
of vehicular assault and driving under the influence of marijuana.
www.theolympian.com/news/local/crime/article94940477.html
19-year-old
Shelton teen killed a pedestrian, Maria Hoaglund, in Olympia.
Driver was high on marijuana and Suboxone
http://www.theolympian.com/news/local/article133011804.html
Pedestrian death in Lacey, 2014, driver suspected to be under influence
of pot
http://www.theolympian.com/news/local/article26071207.html
Man sentenced for killing woman walking baby in stroller.
Pot DUI:
Stoned driving accident, Lacey, seriously hurts pedestrian, Feb.27,
driver was stoned but also under the legal age for using pot:
http://www.theolympian.com/news/local/article135359714.html
One Washington dealer is emboldened by idea of a Sessions crackdown
http://www.thenewstribune.com/news/local/marijuana/article137859928.html
Butane Hash Oil Explosions, deaths:
https://knco.com/another-butane-honey-oil-lab-discovered/
August 19,2016
A massive hash oil explosion in Bellevue Apartment Complex killed a
woman and displaced at least 10 apartment units.
It totaled at least $1.5 million in damages:
http://www.poppot.org/2015/11/05/bellevues-massive-fire-two-years-later-bho/
Child endangered in Butane Hash Oil explosion in 2014:
http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2014/nov/21/man-pleads-guilty-in-hash-oil-explosion/
Washington man kills his mother in fire -- by electricity from marijuana
grow!
Hash oil lab explosion put baby in danger:
http://komonews.com/news/local/infant-was-inside-house-when-hash-oil-lab-exploded
Problems with Edibles, getting to children, and child endangerment
5th grader brought pot edibles to school:
https://blog.seattlepi.com/marijuana/2015/02/23/student-brings-pot-edible-to-seattle-school/
Mom shared bong with toddler, in Centralia,:
http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/03/12/17286481-mom-allegedly-let-toddler-do-bong-hit
Marijuana laced with heroin or fentanyl:
http://fox8.com/2017/02/09/painesville-township-fire-department-warns-about-opiate-laced-marijuana/
Adults Selling or Giving to
Minors, Washington
http://www.thedailyworld.com/news/two-mccleary-men-busted-for-supplying-marijuana-to-minors/
Father gave her marijuana oil to make brownies which she brought to
school
http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2017/mar/02/suspected-drunk-driver-had-young-child-pounds-of-m/
Stoned father drove recklessly and forced daughter to walk home. He was
under influence. http://kcby.com/news/local/police-man-arrested-after-nearly-causing-crash-tells-12-year-old-daughter-to-walk-home
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