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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think the two big contributors here are going to turn out to be weed (I bet he already used a lot in his frat in college, then it got worse with the back pain, and I’m sure there was free flowing weed in his commune in Hawaii) and playing first person shooter games. Weed absolutely precipitates psychotic illness in kids this age (see here for example: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33617756/). And growing up playing a lot of shooter games (it said several places that he was into them and at one point his goal was to develop his own) inured him to real life repercussions of shooting someone. [/quote]

Ding ding ding! This young man had a mental break, likely preciptated by heavy, chronic cannabis use (perhaps along with an underlying psychiatric vulnerability). Sadly, psychosis is a known serious adverse outcome of cannabis use, especially in young brains which are still developing. And significant levels of exposure to violent media, including first-person shooter game, can cause desensitization to violence and increase aggression. Add social media to the mix, and you have a pretty good explanation of how this formerly successful prep school kid ended up taking a bus to NYC to shoot a man in broad daylight.[/quote]

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