Koncerned:My OP does NOT state that this would not have happened if they substituted weed for booze.  It states that it easily could have been avoided had they chosen this strategy. To give merit to your mistaken position I would have had to type, "I guarantee this would not have happened if they substituted weed for alcohol" and that's NOT what I typed.  The point is that if you remove alcohol from most of these violent incidents most of them would not happen.  Exactly what's your deal?  Why do you have such a bulbous burr under your saddle over my comment?