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   From: chunkylover53@aol.com   
      
   On 04/05/2017 18:53, abelard wrote:   
   > On Thu, 4 May 2017 06:04:39 -0400, burfordTjustice   
   > wrote:   
   >   
   >> Execute the drug using scum bitch...   
   >>   
   >> BRISBANE, Australia – A mother who stabbed to death her seven children   
   and a niece in northern Australia in 2014 will not stand trial for murder   
   because she was suffering cannabis-induced schizophrenia when she lost   
   control, according to a court    
   judgment released Thursday.   
   >>   
   >> Raina Thaiday stabbed herself 35 times after killing the children, aged 2   
   to 14 years, at her home in Cairns on Dec. 19, a month after her delusions   
   began.   
   >>   
   >> The Queensland state Mental Health Court ruled a month ago that Thaiday,   
   then 37, had been of "unsound mind" when the children were slain. State law   
   kept the ruling from being made public until Thursday.   
   >>   
   >> She will be held indefinitely in a high-security ward of a psychiatric   
   hospital in the state capital Brisbane and will not be allowed to leave the   
   hospital grounds unescorted.   
   >>   
   >> Thaiday, also known as Mersane Warria, had been smoking up to 20 cones of   
   marijuana a day when she developed severe schizophrenia in late 2014, the   
   court heard.   
   >>   
   >> Justice Jean Dalton said there was convincing evidence that Thaiday   
   suffered a psychotic episode and had no capacity to control or understand her   
   actions.   
   >>   
   >> "Her children were the things that had given her the most happiness in   
   life," Dalton said.   
   >>   
   >> Thaiday remained psychotic until July 2015 and has had two relapses, once   
   at the two-year anniversary of the deaths, and has expressed a desire to kill   
   her fellow patients, the court heard.   
   >>   
   >> Several psychiatrists agreed her lifelong abuse of cannabis triggered her   
   schizophrenia.   
   >>   
   >> The house where the children died was demolished and replaced with eight   
   trees in their honor   
   >   
   > just be thankful that cannabis is completely safe   
   >   
      
   Cannabis is a whipping boy.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   
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