Overdose - Are there actually people who have died froms smoking weed.

[cannabis-sam]

I always thought that weed never killed anyone but I keep coming across this statistic of seven people dying from cannabis I know it's not a lot but it's certainly not zero. So who's lying.

[porchy]

As far as I'm aware there have been no reported cases of a THC overdose, but there have probably been cases of people dying from cannabis related incidents (not including stoned mistakes!)

[BudGreen18]

There has never been a cannabis related fatality. When testing for lethal doses on animals, it was very hard to administer a fatal overdose. The conclusion was that a human would have to smoke 1500 pounds of weed in the space of 15 minutes for THC to become lethal, which is impossible, thus overdose from THC being impossible.

[cannabis-sam]

so where does this figure of seven ever that I've heard repeatadly come from I'm still confused.

[nate81]

Originally Posted by cannabis-sam

so where does this figure of seven ever that I've heard repeatadly come from I'm still confused.

Fantasy Land?

There's statistics about lots of things that are made up or come from some unknown source long ago lost to time. They say that 80% of statistics are made up on the spot.

[cannabis-sam]

Funny thing is i've not heard the fact stated by prohibitionists. I know once where I saw it was the comparison of all the 20 most harmful drugs.

Maybe it is true no ones died from it I'd just like to try and clafiry this fact.

[Jasim]

Originally Posted by BudGreen18

When testing for lethal doses on animals, it was very hard to administer a fatal overdose. The conclusion was that a human would have to smoke 1500 pounds of weed in the space of 15 minutes for THC to become lethal, which is impossible, thus overdose from THC being impossible.

For the sake of argument and simple curiosity, what if someone had purified THC? Or, what about pure HU-210? or another synthetic, more potent cannabinoid?

[cybergenesis]

I'd also like to add that just because you can't overdose easily on a drug doesn't mean it is harmless. Marijuana is not a *harmless* drug, though it may be one of the least damaging, and is certainly better than alcohol.

[cannabis-sam]

I guess there are other ways to die from a drug other than overdose aren't there?

[nibble]

Originally Posted by Jasim

For the sake of argument and simple curiosity, what if someone had purified THC? Or, what about pure HU-210? or another synthetic, more potent cannabinoid?

I'm not sure any dose of THC could be fatal in an otherwise healthy person, but HU210 on the other hand acts as a full agonist at CB receptors where THC is a partial agonist and that could change things.

[enhancion01]

Swim ran acrossed this bit of knowlage.
SWIY couldent die from smoking it if they tried.
(SWIY would succeed in waisting good pot though, so sais swim)



At the beginning of our observations careful search of the literature on the subject was made to determine the toxicity of the hemp. Not a single case of fatal poisoning have we been able to find reported, although often alarming symptoms may occur. A dog weighting 25 pounds received an injection of two ounces of an active U.S.P. fluid extract in the jugular vein with the expectation that it would certainly be sufficient to produce death. To our surprise the animal, after being unconscious for about a day and a half, recovered completely. This dog received, not alone the active constituents of the drug, but also the amount of alcohol contained in the fluid extract. Another dog received about 7 grammes of Solid Extract Cannabis with the same result. We have never been able to give an animal a sufficient quantity of a U.S.P. or other preparation of the Cannabis (Indica Americana) to produce death.

Source-http://users.lycaeum.org/~sputnik/Lu...ats/pharm.html

[Junket]

nah man... people don't die on weed..

unless your fuckin crazy allergic and you manage to eat 100 brownies, smoke 2 pounds and then shoot yourself in the fuckin head, you might have a weed related death

[Revolver123]

This is false because I've heard of cases of cannabis causing some people to have a heart attack or develop a heart problem that leads to a heart attack.

[drug-bot]

possibly if a person had a prexsisting heart ailment, weed def. iincreases heart rate and if your anxious from it your rate will go even higher, heart rates quite easily go into the tachycardia range (over 100 beats per minute) and someone with a bad heart or experiences severe arrythmias its could prove fatal.

[porchy]

Remember it is different to overdose on a drug than just to die because of taking one.

[Richi]

This Crazy Pot Head has heard plenty of things. Little fairies fly around and whisper nonsense into his ears. Look at his eyes, they're all loopy as a result. Marijuana is as marijuana does...

Let's see some of these 'statistics' and then decide where they are coming from and why they're full of shit.

Reputation Comments on this post:

Well said.

[0ctavarium]

It is physically impossible to injest enough THC to actually OD on it, but there has surely been cannabis related deaths (ie. driving on it and crashing).

[Alfa]

AFAIK no one has ever died from toxic effects from cannabis or even from cannabinoids.
Assumptions lead to fables in this case. If anyone believes cannabis may be toxic, then prove it.

[cannabis-sam]

On a slightly different note I was just thinking people have probably died from the effects of smoking cannabis yet a lot of people compare cannabis to ciggarettes in deaths caused because I doubt anyone has died from tobacco over dose just the effects of smoking.

[Junket]

Originally Posted by cannabis-sam

On a slightly different note I was just thinking people have probably died from the effects of smoking cannabis yet a lot of people compare cannabis to ciggarettes in deaths caused because I doubt anyone has died from tobacco over dose just the effects of smoking.

Yea that is true.

but....

A person can overdose on nicotine through a combination of nicotine patches, nicotine gum, and/or tobacco smoking at the same time

LD50 of nicotine is 40–60 mg..

so people CAN die from tobacco overdose an shit.. but people can't on weed.

[Euthanatos93420]

Word. Death count:Zero

Any valid objections?

[cybergenesis]

Well not to contradict all you guys but in my city I remember reading an article about a two year old that ate several cannabis cookies and was in critical care in hospital, if thats true then she nearly died.

[Euthanatos93420]

Find it. As they say...pix/refs or it didn't happen.

[cybergenesis]

Pffft. I clearly remember that being written in the paper. You can accuse me of lying if you like.

perhaps your a bit too religious about the absolute safety of marijuana, it may very well be dangerous to a young child. Many drugs that are safe for adults, are dangerous for young children.

But I'll have a search anyway...

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200309/s945139.htm

This doesn't mention critical care, but I CLEARLY remember the advertiser newspaper saying that, because I remember saying to myself "i thought you couldn't OD on marijuana". It wouldn't surprise me if the newspaper exaggerated or got the facts wrong however. I didn't say she did overdose, I said i read it. Nonetheless its pretty dodgy for a child that young to be exposed to marijuana, at that age it could have some effect on her mind, though it would be more likely if she was repeatedly exposed.

[SupeR]

Originally Posted by cybergenesis

This doesn't mention critical care, but I CLEARLY remember the advertiser newspaper saying that, because I remember saying to myself "i thought you couldn't OD on marijuana". It wouldn't surprise me if the newspaper exaggerated or got the facts wrong however. I didn't say she did overdose, I said i read it. Nonetheless its pretty dodgy for a child that young to be exposed to marijuana, at that age it could have some effect on her mind, though it would be more likely if she was repeatedly exposed.

Just because it was printed in a newspaper does not mean its correct, First thing we were told in media studies is "What is Representation" Which is
By definition, all media texts are re-presentations of reality. This means that they are intentionally composed, lit, written, framed, cropped, captioned, branded, targeted and censored by their producers, and that they are entirely artificial versions of the reality we perceive around us.

Just saying that because you said " Im sure I read it in the paper" does not hold any weight.
I do however believe it is dodgy that a child that young is exposed to marijuana, but the fact is that's where the worlds at. swim knows a swim who knows a swim at swims school that is 10 and deals.