Does Marijuana Use Lead to Aggression and Violent Behavior?

Ostrowsky, Michael K.

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“…The sense of fear, loss of control, and panic is associated with violence [16][17][18]. Also marijuana use increases heart rate, which may be associated with violent behaviour [19][20][21][22].…”

Section: Studies Show Violence and Aggression With Marijuana Usementioning

confidence: 99%

“…This physical fight with Zimmerman was behavior is to the surprise of others who claimed Martin was mild mannered who likely would avoid such a confrontaion. Marijuana use likely created the fear and aggressive behavior due to poor judgment and threatening perceptions induced by marijuana, contribution to Martin's death [19,23].…”

Section: Paranoid Personality Disordermentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The intoxication from the use of marijuana likely caused McDonald to slash a cop car's tire, as he was known to be respectful and reserved. His life would have been saved without marijuana induced aggressiveness and poor judgments, and senseless, high risk actions towards police [19,23].…”

Section: Paranoid Personality Disordermentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Guilford was preoccupied with and user of marijuana at a relatively young age. His marijuana use likely contributed to the change in his personality to be aggressive and assaultive to provoke his death in a high risk police stop [19,23].…”

Section: Paranoid Personality Disordermentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Marijuana was likely a major contributor to the drastic change in personality toward violence. Had marijuana been identified as a problem, his aggressive and assaultive act may have been prevented and lives could have been saved [19,23].…”

Section: Paranoid Personality Disordermentioning

confidence: 99%

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Marijuana Violence and Law

Miller¹,

Oberbarnscheidt²

2017

J Addict Res Ther

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Marijuana is currently a growing risk to the public in the United States. Following expanding public opinion that marijuana provides little risk to health, state and federal legislatures have begun changing laws that will significantly increase accessibility of marijuana. Greater marijuana accessibility, resulting in more use, will lead to increased health risks in all demographic categories across the country. Violence is a well-publicized, prominent risk from the more potent, current marijuana available.We present cases that are highly popularized storylines in which marijuana led to unnecessary violence, health risks, and, in many cases, both. Through the analysis of these cases, we will identify the adverse effects of marijuana use and the role it played in the tragic outcomes in these and other instances. In the analysis of these cases, we found marijuana as the single most common, correlative variable in otherwise diverse populations and circumstances surrounding the association of violence and marijuana.Keywords: Marijuana; Bullying behaviour; Aggression; Intoxication; Cannabis use Cases ReportsMichael Brown robbed a convenience store for a large box of cigarillos to smoke marijuana and assaulted the store clerk. Subsequently, the 18 year old Brown attacked police officer Darren Wilson without provocation, punching him in the face through the window of his police car, and attempting to grab his gun. Wilson shot and killed Brown as he tried to escape in a very agitated, paranoid, confused and aggressive state. Along with the cigarellos, marijuana was found in Brown's system at the time of death [1].

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Section: Studies Show Violence and Aggression With Marijuana Usementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Paranoid Personality Disordermentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Paranoid Personality Disordermentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Paranoid Personality Disordermentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Paranoid Personality Disordermentioning

confidence: 99%

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Marijuana Violence and Law

Miller¹,

Oberbarnscheidt²

2017

J Addict Res Ther

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Comorbidity of Substance Use and Violence

White

Conway

Ward

2019

Handbooks of Sociology and Social Research

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Substance-Use Disorders and Violence

Schifano

Zangani

Chiappini

et al. 2019

Comprehensive Approach to Psychiatry

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Substance use seems to be associated with increased prevalence levels of violent behaviour in both general population and psychiatric patients, with 'dual diagnosis' clients showing high rates of risky and criminal behaviour and worse therapy compliance. Cases of drug-related aggressiveness mostly involve a number of molecules, e.g. ethanol, stimulants, cannabinoids, opiates, benzodiazepines, synthetic cannabinoids and synthetic cathinones. Consumers of the virtually few hundreds, and up to a few thousands substances currently available may present to the emergency departments without providing information about the substances(s) ingested and it is likely that standard drug tests will show negative results. An appropriate treatment/management plan to cope with the related acute behavioural and psychopathological disturbances is here discussed. Because of the complex behavioural and medical toxicity issues associated with drug intake, raising awareness and education of health care professionals on drugs' health harms, interventions, harm reduction techniques, and referral pathways are here deemed of particular relevance.

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Does Marijuana Use Lead to Aggression and Violent Behavior?

Cited by 52 publications

References 79 publications

Marijuana Violence and Law

Marijuana Violence and Law

Comorbidity of Substance Use and Violence

Substance-Use Disorders and Violence

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