[meteorite-list] Coroner's report: man killed by meteorite had marijuana in his system

[Michael Blood]

Note the comment at the bottom: "<satire>"
        I suspect it was also released April 1.
        Michael


On 4/5/10 10:19 AM, "Greg Stanley" <stanleygregr at hotmail.com> wrote:

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> Coroner's report: man killed by meteorite had marijuana in his system
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> Article in The Daily Tontería:
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>     San Hoyo, California: A coroner¹s report released yesterday by police
> confirmed the presence of marijuana compounds in the system of Jonah Ellis, a
> 23-year-old man who was killed last Thursday just outside the town limits when
> struck by a meteorite.
> 
>     Police Chief Dirk Jackson refused to speculate whether this news would
> have an impact on the upcoming referendum on the legalization of marijuana in
> California this November, but noted that, ³In the 10 years I¹ve been in San
> Hoyo, 100% of meteorite fatalities have been marijuana-related, demonstrating
> a clear link. It¹s certainly got to make you think.²
> 
>     Calvina Califano, spokesperson for Citizens Resisting Against Pot, had
> harsher words to say about the referendum. ³If legalization passes,² she said,
> ³you can absolutely count on an increase in meteorite strikes. And we won¹t be
> as lucky the next time. People will be smoking pot outside day-care centers,
> and when that meteorite strikes, the collateral damage will be measured in
> mothers sifting through the rubble for the mangled corpses of their infant
> children. Marijuana: harmless? Let those legalizers tell that to the grieving
> mothers.²
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>     A representative of the Coalition to Legalize and Regulate Marijuana in
> California claimed that the meteorite strike was unrelated to marijuana use,
> but was unable to precisely explain why Jonah Ellis was hit.
> 
>     Scientists note that meteorites are formed from the debris of asteroids,
> and that there are literally millions upon millions of asteroids. If marijuana
> is legalized, it could take many years to exhaust the supply, and some say the
> damage to society could be permanent.
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