Marijauna's first overdose?

Ban beer

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verdosed on a half of a joint

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The devil weed strikes again. Potheads are so dumb. Get a job you stoners.

The acute toxicity of cannabis and the cannabinoids is very low; no-one has ever died as a direct and immediate consequence of recreational or medical use . Official statistics record two deaths involving cannabis (and no other drug) in 1993, two in 1994 and one in 1995 but these were due to inhalation of vomit.

And actually there was a report of someone dying from smoking weed but it was never justified (2004) in death report said he died of cannabis toxicity or cannabis poisoning. Again this was never justified

Animal tests have revealed that extremely high doses of cannabinoids are needed to have lethal effect. This has led scientists to conclude that the ratio of the amount of cannabinoids necessary to get a person intoxicated (i.e., stoned) relative to the amount necessary to kill them is 1 to 40,000. In other words, to overdose, you would have to consume 40,000 times as much marijuana as you needed to get stoned. In contrast, the ratio for alcohol varies between 1 to 4 and 1 to 10. It is easy to see how upwards of 5000 people die from alcohol overdoses every year and no one EVER dies of marijuana overdoses.

It takes about 1500 pounds of consumption of marijuana in about a 15 minute time frame in order to overdose on THC, and you'd be dead long before that for simply ingesting 1500 pounds of a substance in a 15 minute timespan for obvious reasons.

at least you cant overdose on alcohol