Colorado question: Did marijuana play a role in husband's alleged slaying of wife? - jordan willis 2nd pd.
SUMMARY:
47 year old, Richard Kirk, kills his wife with a gun shot to the head after she makes a 13 minute 911 call. During the call she tells police that he had recently used marijuana and a prescription drug. The phone call ends with a gun shot and silence. Police are investigating whether Kirk's use and intake of marijuana as well as his prescribed medicine had anything to do with the shooting and killing of his wife. once they arrived at they seen, police arrested Kirk and charged him for first-degree murder. when police searched the house, they found a receipt in the basement for purchases made on the day of the killing at a marijuana dispensary called Nutritional Elements. "As tragic as this is" said Gillette,executive director of Colorado NORML , "we can't look at this one isolated incident and say that (legalizing marijuana) was the wrong path to go down. The best way to keep marijuana safe is for regulatory oversight and testing." Kirk is being held without bond in the Denver Detention Center.
When doing drugs, people take the risk of acting outside of themselves and making unscrupulous decisions (in addition to bringing harm to their own bodies) to simply experience a brief moment of ecstasy and artificial happiness. Working for joy seems much more fulfilling once that joy is achieved.
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