The ICE Shooter and the Cannabis Scapegoat: Why We Need to Talk About Violence, Not Weed

Here we go again. Another mass shooting, another tragic loss of life, and right on cue, the media starts digging through the shooter’s background looking for easy explanations. In the case of Joshua Jahn, the 29-year-old who opened fire on migrants at a Dallas ICE facility before killing himself, they found their convenient narrative: he was a “lazy stoner” who “was all about the weed.”