Judge: Trayvon Martin’s Pot Use Can Be Included In Trial

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132. he admitted to police that he took this medication

Both medications are daily meds that he admitted he took. Adderall was for his ADD and is an anphetamine. Common side effects are anxiety, jitteryness, hypervigilance and paranoia but can also include irritability, aggression, anger, logorrhea, dermatillomania and paresthesia.

He was likely taking Temazepam likely due some of these side effects as well as that of insomnia and difficulty staying asleep. Temazepam is in the same family as Valium and Xanex and can produce the same sort of side effects. Neither medication can be started and stopped at will. Temazepam in particular takes a long time to be weaned off of often with debilitating withdrawal symptoms. Both medications remain in the system for about two weeks after being completely weaned off.

Personally, I don't think his taking these medications is any more relevant than the minute amount of THC that was found in Martin's system. With that small amount he would not have been currently under the influence, and as we all know marijuana creates a mellowing lazy relaxed state. Though some people react to it differently in that it can cause increased anxiety and agitation (which is exactly what it did to me) since Martin was a fairly regular pot smoker had it created such unpleasant results like myself he'd have no reason to want to use it.

I have no doubt that the defense using this marijuana nonsense is going to fall completely flat with the jury. Even non-marijuana users are well aware of the type of feelings it creates none of which the jury is going to give a poop about even if his blood level showed he was high as a kite at the time. It's very much likely that every single person on the jury have smoked pot before, know from personal experience what it's like and may very well be users right now. Trying to use this minute amount of THC in his system as some kind of character flaw that would have shit in shinola to do with this case is just more petty stupidity from the defense that will very likely go over like a lead balloon. If even one person on that jury was a recent or current pot user the attempt to use this to make Martin look like he was some drug addled vicious crazy will be personally offensive. Had they found crack or heroin or coke or anything along those lines, well that would be a different story. The defense using this looks like desperate grabbing at straws that will likely backfire on them.