Pot smokers are always crying to me about how if pot was legal they could grow it themselves and then magically all crime would end and no pot smoker would ever make the news again. They ignore three important points:

A. The current criminal growers of pot will not just disappear, but simply be allowed to operate publicly.

B. Most are degenerates.

C. Four decades of research shows chronic or heavy marijuana use both worsens mental illness and often leads to symptoms that mimic mental illness in users.

This story illustrates the three points quite well:

By all appearances, Rebecca Kuzelka used her home to operate a child day-care business on a quiet, tree-lined street in Lake Elsinore. But a different picture of the 55-year-old mother emerged after her home was rocked by an explosion late Wednesday night.

On Thursday morning, deputies arrested Kuzelka and her son Grey Kuzelka, 21, on suspicion of using their home to make bombs and grow marijuana.

Another son, Benjamin Kuzelka, 23, injured his hand in the explosion and was hospitalized. Authorities said he would be arrested when he is released.

Around 11:30 p.m. Wednesday night, the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department said, Benjamin Kuzelka was making an explosive device when it accidentally detonated, injuring his hand.

About 20 minutes later, the department said, Kuzelka showed up at a local hospital saying that he had accidentally shot himself. “His injuries were inconsistent with a gunshot wound and doctors called the police,” said Deputy Melissa Nieburger, a department spokeswoman.

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A law enforcement source told The Times that substances found at the home were similar to acetone peroxide, or TATP, the type of powerful explosive used in the 2007 London subway terrorist bombings. There was no evidence that the Lake Elsinore incident was related to terrorism, the source said.

Riverside County deputies, FBI investigators and agents with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives took part in the investigation. Authorities also detonated some of the explosives at the home.

So a mother and her two adult sons were growing marijuana and making bombs in the house they all shared which was also a day care center. They were making bombs similar to those Jihadists favor, and one of the morons blew his hand half off then thought he could convince medical professionals it was a gunshot wound.

Why don’t we stop judging these poor innocent pot smokers?