Well, at least we now have an idea why Michael Brown was stealing that box of Swisher Sweets.
Swisher Sweets, a cheap brand of smallish cigars, is often used for pot smoking. The inner tobacco is removed, and the now-hollow cigars are filled with marijuana.
And, according to an article in the Washington Post, though the information has not yet been released to the general public, the autopsy showed that Michael Brown had marijuana in his system.
Let\’s see: a thief, a pothead (at least when he was stopped by Officer Wilson), and the probable impairment in judgment which comes from using marijuana (remember, he was walking in the middle of the road when Officer Wilson saw him).
Would it be fair to say that these factors might have had an influence on the way he acted that day?
Maybe, just maybe, that is why Michael Brown\’s family, and their lawyer (Benjamin Crump – the same lawyer who claimed Trayvon Martin went to the store for skittles and iced tea, when in reality he bought Arizona Watermelon Fruit Juice Cocktail, which is commonly mixed with codeine to make a quick-high drink called “sizzurp”, “lean” or “drank”), have tried so hard to prevent facts about this young man from seeing the light of day.
The family, and protesters/rioters/looters/agitators who are supposedly doing what they do because of what happened to Michael Brown, all have a stake in him being seen as some kind of all-American choir boy. But I have to admit I have this sneaking suspicion that the more we find out about Brown, the less choir boy-ish he is going to look like.
Time will tell. And I have a feeling we won\’t have to wait long to know one way or the other.
