“Shared blame,” you ask? Yeah. I mean the kind that seems to make it a law of nature that when some psycho loser, somewhere, does something horrific or stupid, then it turns out he tokes? Suddenly the entire marijuana community is suspect, at least according to the corporate tools who are responsible for most of the news you read.

Today’s exercise in shared blame comes courtesy of loser Illinois teen John Granat, 17, who allegedly bludgeoned his mom and dad to death in their bed Sunday morning. According to press reports, this fucked-up shitbag of an excuse for a human being killed John and Maria Granat, 44 and 42 respectively, allegedly because they had caught him growing marijuana at home, and had then thrown his plants away.

Now, killers are killers, and potheads are potheads; there’s usually very little overlap between the two groups, except the occasional self-medicating psychotic like little John here, whose demons finally overpowered him and made him do something deeply cruel and stupid.