Marijuana can be Kill You; Not!
By Alfonzo Porter
The U.S. federal government continues to insist that marijuana is an unsafe, unhealthy, dangerous illegal drug with zero medical worth with a high propensity for abuse. This is still true despite the majority of states either considering or have already overturned its prohibition. The FDA (Food and Drug Administration) lists marijuana as a Schedule 1 drug right along with heroine, cocaine, meth, LSD and a host of other opiates, hallucinogens and stimulants.
The government stands by its position that weed, because of its psychoactive compound, is a serious hazard to your personal health. In order to better understand how dangerous marijuana is
The Huffington Post launched an effort to actually
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As a matter of history, in the late 1980s a judge with the DEA (Drug Enforcement Agency) contended that marijuana ought to be reclassified due to its insignificant risk of doing harm. He eventually concluded that a person would have to consume 20,000 to 40,000 times the THC contained in a typical joint in order to even begin to reach a dangerous level of toxicity. That amounts to approximately 1,500 pounds of weed in roughly 15 minutes.
Put another way, you’d have to ingest approximately one gram of pure THC per 2.2 pounds of body mass. Therefore, at 194 pounds on average for an adult American man, he would have to ingest more than 1.5 pounds of THC extract—this is virtually impossible. It is more than people use in an entire lifetime.
Just because it is all but impossible to overdose on pot does not mean that some have not been doing their level best. Cannabis has been one of the human races favorite intoxicants since the stone ages. People, by and large, don’t really behave responsibly when it comes to chemically inducing their bodies, therefore if it were indeed impossible to expire by using weed, someone would have done it by now—and it would have been front page news
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Even though they may seem to last for an eternity, they usually subside over the course of a few hours. Extreme cases of excessive cannabis use have also been known to contribute to what is called a non fatal overdose. However, this does not begin to reach the level of lethality of other drugs. Even an over use of common pain relievers like aspirin, ibuprofen and acetaminophen can pose serious threats to your stomach, kidney and liver. Doctors insist that there is no damage to internal organs as a result of cannabinoid use; especially in its most natural