44 Times.
This is a brief excerpt from a long article written in such aw ay that 4 paragraphs are far and away insufficient and you must go read the whole, sordid thing. I will post just a couple of bits.
Long story short, the was a tremendous amount of preoccupation with the issue of whether Brown was using 'wax', a cannabis concentrate.
They went full-on reefer mad with it.
In the coming weeks, jurors would hear 44 other references to waxing, from prosecutors and other expert witnesses, whose testimony never seemed to provide a clear answer as to whether it had played a role.
They talked about it and talked about and kept returning to it.
They fearmongered about "wax" and whether is played some role in Brown's attack on Wilson: there's a story that some construction worker may have turned Brown onto some wax and
Investigators and the prosecutors would latch on to that suggestion to account for Brown’s combative behavior as described by Wilson.
Yes: The Marijuana Made Him A Psychotic Enraged Killer Theory again.
The article repeats the debunked claim that Brown assaulted a storekeeper to get cigarillos to smoke a blunt.
The family's private pathologist weighed in:
“It doesn’t make people go crazy,” he said. “So toxicology, everything it has and everything it doesn’t have has significance, and in this instance, I think marijuana is significant that he smoked marijuana, but 99 out of 100 people taking marijuana aren’t going to get in a fight with a police officer over it, in my experience.”
The prosecutor then badgered the Doctor further.
Do read the whole thing, it catalogs a serious and lengthy attempt to assassinate Brown's character and blame the Evil Weed for Wilson 'having' to shoot Brown.
This is ugly reefer madness and a reason YOU as a Democrat should support cannabis law reform.