On his radio program today, the American Family Association’s Bryan Fischer floated his own theory as to why Robert Lewis Dear killed three people and injured nine more during a shooting at a Planned Parenthood facility in Colorado last week: Maybe he was “just tanked up on pot.”
Insisting that there is no reliable evidence as to what motivated Dear to carry out the attack, Fischer suggested that perhaps the legality of marijuana in the state played a role because “we do know that since he moved to Colorado, [Dear] was a pot-smoking nutcase.”
Fischer said that “we have seen one story after another” of people “getting doped up or tanked up or high on pot and going off a doing brutal things,” especially after ingesting marijuana edibles. So obviously “there is no question that the kind of pot that is available in Colorado today can drive you into psychotic episodes,” he stated.
“I’m going to be interested to see what he had in his system,” Fischer said, “and if maybe this was a guy that was just tanked up on pot.”
