Mercnbeth
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while there are those who report negative experiences or side-effects, as with any other medication/drug there have been no fatalities attributed to either accidental or purposeful overdosing using marijuana.
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Can you cite the source you get this information from?...velvetears
sure..."The Emporer Wears No Clothes", Jack Herer, 2000.
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Number of American Deaths Per Year that result directly or primarily from the following selected causes nationwide, according to World Almanac, Life Insurance actuarial (death) rates, and the last 20 years of the U.S. Surgeon General's reports:
Tobacco = 340,000 to 450,000
Alcohol(Not including 50% of all highway deaths and 65% of all murders = 150,000
Aspirin (including deliberate OD) = 180 - 1000+
"Legal" Drug OD (deliberate or accidental from prescribed or over the counter and/or in combination with alcohol) = 100,000+
Illicit Drug OD (deliberate or accidental) = 3,800 to 5,200
Marijuana = 0
Marijuana users also have the same or lower incidence of murders and highway deaths and accidents than the general non-marijuana using population as a whole...Crancer Study, UCLA; U.S. funded first and second Jamaican studies, 1968 to 1974, Costa Rican Studies, 1980 to 1982.
100% of the studies done at dozens of American Universities and research facilities show pot toxicity does not exist. Medical history does not record anyone dying from an overdose of marijuana...UCLA, Harvard, Temple, etc.
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UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
Drug Enforcement Administration
In The Matter Of MARIJUANA RESCHEDULING PETITION
Docket No. 86-22
OPINION AND RECOMMENDED RULING, FINDINGS OF FACT, CONCLUSIONS OF LAW AND DECISION OF ADMINISTRATIVE LAW JUDGE FRANCIS L. YOUNG, Administrative Law Judge
DATED: SEPTEMBER 6, 1988
Section 8 of Judge Young's "Findings of Fact, Conclusions of Law and Decision."
Page 56 & 57 http://www.druglibrary.org/olsen/MEDICAL/YOUNG/young4.html
3. The most obvious concern when dealing with drug safety is the possibility of lethal effects. Can the drug cause death?
4. Nearly all medicines have toxic, potentially lethal effects. But marijuana is not such a substance. There is no record in the extensive medical literature describing a proven, documented cannabis-induced fatality.
This is a remarkable statement. First, the record on marijuana encompasses 5,000 years of human experience. Second, marijuana is now used daily by enormous numbers of people throughout the world. Estimates suggest that from twenty million to fifty million Americans routinely, albeit illegally, smoke marijuana without the benefit of direct medical supervision. Yet, despite this long history of use and the extraordinarily high numbers of social smokers, there are simply no credible medical reports to suggest that consuming marijuana has caused a single death.
6. By contrast aspirin, a commonly used, over-the-counter medicine, causes hundreds of deaths each year.
7. Drugs used in medicine are routinely given what is called an LD-50. The LD-50 rating indicates at what dosage fifty percent of test animals receiving a drug will die as a result of drug induced toxicity. A number of researchers have attempted to determine marijuana's LD-50 rating in test animals, without success. Simply stated, researchers have been unable to give animals enough marijuana to induce death.
8. At present it is estimated that marijuana's LD-50 is around 1:20,000 or 1:40,000. In layman terms this means that in order to induce death a marijuana smoker would have to consume 20,000 to 40,000 times as much marijuana as is contained in one marijuana cigarette. NIDA-supplied marijuana cigarettes weigh approximately .9 grams. A smoker would theoretically have to consume nearly 1,500 pounds of marijuana within about fifteen minutes to induce a lethal response.
9. In practical terms, marijuana cannot induce a lethal response as a result of drug-related toxicity.
most importantly, this slave gets her information first-hand and from the people she has had experience with over the last twenty years. this slave has never known, nor heard of, anyone OD on marijuana. hallucinate, maybe, but OD? nah...that's fear-mongering.
< Message edited by Mercnbeth -- 10/15/2007 12:32:18 PM >
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