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To: bentway who wrote (788480)	6/8/2014 1:51:12 PM
From: Brumar89	Respond to of 1576893

One of the interesting things about pot legalizations will be the civil lawsuits against legal marijuana retailers. ..... In Denver, Levy Thamba, a 19-year-old Northwest College student visiting from Wyoming, plunged to the ground from a hotel balcony. The coroner in the case found that Thamba had consumed cookies infused with cannabis and that “marijuana intoxication” was a significant factor in his death, classified as an accident. In another case, which has made headlines around the globe, prosecutors have filed one charge of first-degree murder against Richard Kirk in the shooting death of his wife, Kristine A. Kirk, according to a statement by the Denver District Attorney’s Office. Kirk reportedly purchased marijuana edibles before the shooting and appeared intoxicated after being taken into custody. ............. If you think trial lawyers made a windfall on tobacco, just wait until they get a handle on marijuana. The scientific and medical evidence against marijuana now dwarfs what we knew about tobacco at the time of the surgeon general’s report of 1964. No warning label in the world could shield marijuana growers and sellers from the tsunami of tort liability they should face from distributing a product with so many known harmful effects. ..........