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Doctors assessing a man who admitted to killing his mother on Easter Monday over two years ago believe he likely suffered from cannabis-induced psychosis.

Kathy Dickout, 53, died after being stabbed half-a-dozen times by her adult son Jason Glenn Dickout in her northeast Edmonton home April 17, 2017.

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Dickout was initially charged with second-degree murder and possession of a dangerous weapon but entered a guilty plea to manslaughter in November.

According to an agreed statement of facts, Dickout and his sister had consumed cannabis over the course of a family Easter gathering, including cannabis oil. He was 30 at the time of his arrest.

At around 12:26 a.m. on April 17, 2017, Dickout’s sister called police to report “she had just witnessed her brother stabbing their mother repeatedly and that he appeared to be having some kind of psychotic break as he was screaming at the top of his lungs ‘like a crazy person.’”