Yeah, there's another word for this. Asphyxiation.
This isn't how people smoke marijuana, or even tobacco.
So basically this study is faulty. It's basically about as valid as those studies where they injected rats with saccharine for a month and found they developed cancer. Problem is, the amount of saccharine they had to inject was equivalent to someone drinking 1000 2-liter bottles of diet soda. I'm pretty sure if you drank that much diet soda in 30 days, the saccharine would be the least of your worries.
Now, don't get me wrong. Long term inhalation of any sort of smoke isn't going to be good for you but there really haven't been any legitimate studies done about marijuana smoke since, well, it's still illegal.
In the meantime, there's been zero reports of death caused solely by marijuana. Now just like alcohol, people have done fatally stupid things while under the influence.
No
Simple logic dictates that any number of deaths have marijuana as contributing factor. If someone is drunk when they hit a bridge abutment, we don't blame the car.
Apart from driving accidents, I also know at least one kid who fell asleep outside and froze to death.
According to the cdc, this is correct. The stat everyone cites about 0 deaths related to marijuana is published by the cdc. I dont have the reference link off the top of my head, but it should not be too hard to find on their website.
Its illegal because of political bs, and current legal markets lobbying against it to protect their own profits (such as pharmaceuticals, tobacco, textiles, etc).
Can I get what those monkeys are getting?
Besides the whole suffocating part.
And marijuana is non-lethal.
I'm pro legalization or at least decriminalization for the US. I've seen The Union, great documentary. Unfortunately a little dated but insightful none the less. Doctors and policemen supported the evidence stating there are zero deaths in the US directly attributed to cannabis use alone. Every article I researched or found said that the victim was under the influence of alcohol or other drugs. The fact that cannabis was detectable in the system sits squarely with the facts already known about canabis. THC stays in the system for quite some time depending on frequency of use and fat content of the user. I would just like someone to clarify to me that there really are no deaths from cannabis use only. The one study I found that linked death to marijuana was one the government conducted on monkeys. They suffocated them with marijuana smoke. They where pumped with smoke through a mask that covered the nose and mouth and subjected to 5 minutes of this inhalation of heated cannabis multiple times a day for several months. There is a scientific medical journal that states that if the brain is deprived of oxygen for 4 or more minutes, brain damage can occur. The monkeys where tested and evidence of brain damage was found. However I refuse to believe it was from marijuana use. They suffocated the monkeys, that's why they had brain damage. One would have to smoke upwards of 1000 joints in 5 minutes to even come close to a lethal dose. I pitty the person who can handle 1000 joints in 5 minutes. Someone please tell me that all my research was not inconclusive. If the data is there and shows there are abslutely no deaths DIRECTLY connected with marijuana use only then why is it still illegal? There are hundreds of ads approved by the government that are against drinking and smoking. It makes sense when there is statistical data showing all the hundreds of thousands of deaths each year connected to alcohol and other drugs to back it up. However when there is no data showing people dying from only weed, it makes me wonder why it's still illegal.
