Man goes berserk from smoking 'hemp'

[Earth_First]

Marijuana Smoker Beheads Two Women

BLANTYRE, Malawi (Reuters) - A Malawian man believed to be high on marijuana beheaded two women with an axe Friday, police in the southern African country said.

The man, in his mid-20s, beheaded a 52-year-old woman while she worked in her garden with her daughter and did the same to a 68-year-old friend who came to the daughter's aid, police spokesman Kelvin Maigwa told Reuters.

"The unsuspecting woman greeted the stranger who, instead, threw the axe at her, aiming at the chest," Maigwa said.

He said police found marijuana, or hemp, when they searched the suspect's home.

"The house was full of stench from recently smoked hemp. We believe he had an overdose of the hemp that made him go berserk," Maigwa said, adding that the walls of the house bore quotations from famous reggae songs.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=573&ncid=757&e=6&u=/nm/20040924/od_nm/crime_malawi_beheadings_dc

Overdose of hemp. Priceless.

[Deja Q]

1. Overdose of hemp. Priceless.

Beheading two women. 15-20.

[Earth_First]

3. Is this to suggest that I do not find the beheadings tragic...

?

[hobbit709]

8. OD on hemp?

Having inhaled more than my share I know for a fact that even if you had wanted to commit murder and mayhem, there's no way you could get up off the floor to do it if you were that wasted.

[Raster]

16. The only thing you want to murder is that pint of Ben & Jerry's

[Kierkegaard]

2. Oh NO! Not quotations from famous REGGAE songs!

Looks like their war on drugs isn't going as well as ours.

Overdose? Sheesh.

[Nimrod]

4. REEFER MADNESS!!

God, how dumb. I didn't know you could overdose on hemp. Even if you do, once you've eaten everything in the house including the cat food you're generally not feeling quite up to axe murders.

[Earth_First]

5. Considering you cannot get 'high' off hemp...

this article is pretty biased to suggest otherwise.

[punpirate]

7. Now, that's funny....

... cat food.... :P

[jonnyblitz]

11. no shit. Let me nap a bit before the pillage....

:P

[Misunderestimator]

6. What utter bullshit. Either he was on something other than hemp...

or he premeditated it and intended to do it anyway.

[no_hypocrisy]

9. Now, kids, this is why you shouldn't smoke marijuana . . .

Actually the story I got was Art Linkletter's daughter, Diane, jumping from the top of a building while on acid when I got the drug lecture in the 70's.

[YellowRubberDuckie]

10. Which is an urban legend if I'm not mistaken...

...which is possible.
But I'm not.
http://www.snopes.com/horrors/drugs/linklttr.htm
Duckie

[Hubert Flottz]

12. Now that's some good $hit man!

"Roach Dis Weed Is A M----r-----r Man!"

[Crunchy Frog]

13. Well, you do know where the word "assassin"

comes from, don't you?

[CrownPrinceBandar]

14. Yes... Hashish...................

Significance: nil.

[frylock]

15. good to know i'm not the only one who feels compelled to behead people..

after smoking up. Dude was probably smoking nade. :eyes:

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

17. So this is another tragic case of severe rope burn?

Say it ain't so-- and then pass me the pipe!

:evilgrin: