As marijuana goes mainstream, who’s to blame when things get deadly?

Published June 4, 2016 4:01am ET



In April, 2014, Kristine Kirk, 44, was at home with her three children when her husband, 47-year-old Richard Kirk, arrived “delirious” and “paranoid.”

He was “totally hallucinating,” Kristine said in a 911 call, climbing in and out of a first-story window, and asking for someone to kill him. Kirk allegedly took a gun out of a safe and shot and killed his wife. Moments later, as two of the couple’s children escaped through a window, Kirk walked into his seven-year-old son’s room and asked the child to kill him so that “dad and mom could be together with God.”

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