On cannabis, mental illness, and (fears of) random crime

Psychosis-driven violence is scarier than other crime - and it seems to be rising.. - Alex Berenson

In their daily lives, most ordinary people are at very low risk from violent crime... 

• But there’s another kind of crime.

It’s not purposeful. 

It’s episodic and psychosis-driven and it almost always targets the truly innocent — the family members of the perpetrator, often including children, and random strangers. 

• The seminal domestic version is the mother who kills her kids. 
• The seminal public version is the man who without a word pushes someone in front of an oncoming subway.3

Unlike ordinary crime, psychosis-driven violence is essentially impossible to stop or even defend against. 

It cannot be predicted, because it is fundamentally irrational. 

And it targets the weak.

• Psychotic crime is terrifying. 
• It’s the most terrifying kind of crime — more terrifying than terrorism itself...