Just found this crazy news article about a man who was cleared of criminal charges because he was driven insane by jasmine tea. It seems preposterous to me, but according to his defense lawyer “Jasmine is an herb commonly taken to calm the stomach but is also used as a love potion in satanic and cult rituals”. Is it? I’ve never heard that. I highly highly doubt it. Who the hell performs satanic rituals anyway. I always thought that was a lot of hullabaloo cooked up by the Christian right to scare kids out of playing Dungeons & Dragons.
Oh, and get this:
- “Prosecutors likened the tea theory to the ‘twinkie defense’ used by former San Francisco Supervisor Dan White, who was charged with killing the city’s mayor and another supervisor in 1978. He avoided a first-degree murder charge and was convicted of involuntary manslaughter after his lawyers convinced jurors that eating junk food had diminished White’s mental capacity.”
I mean, yeah, that shit may mess you up, but I’m surprised it got through the court system. I doubt you could use that sort of defense nowadays, cause you would open the door to all kinds of class action lawsuits and crap. Goddamn. Maybe we should try it.
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