In 2014, Richard Kirk took a gun and shot his wife to death. The father of three insisted that what drove him to shooting her was a marijuana edible that he ate. The story and his conviction sparked a debate about how cannabis can affect people different.
While the consensus is that the edible was not the reason he took a gun and murdered his wife. Four years later, his still sticking to that story. He has support this time. Dr. Andrew Monte a cannabis researcher and physician at UCHealth University of Colorado.
Dr. Monte spoke about his findings to Colorado Gazette.
“Clearly edibles seemed to have a more severe toxicity than inhaled agents, and it seemed that much of this is actually psychiatric in nature,” said Monte.
Kirk opened up about the murder to Rocky Mountain PBS.
“I didn’t know it was my wife,” he sobbed when asked why he pulled the trigger. “I thought it was somebody else, I guess. That’s the only way I could have done it. I never ever once thought about even hurting my wife or pushing her or anything — let alone taking her life, taking her away from her three boys.”
Read more about Kirk and how the public feels about his reason for the shooting here