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 medog rated 5 months ago - From the page: "According to the US Government's own research, the lethal dose of marijuana is at least one-third your body weight, consumed in fifteen minutes. If it is smoked, about half of the active ingredient is lost in sidestream smoke, so you would have to smoke about two-thirds of ... more
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- sdashiki rated 3 months agodrugs
- Booyah lung cancer. COUGH!
- alpinestar rated 5 months agodrugs
- It's a herb, herbs generally help.
- stickynotes17 rated 5 months agodrugs
- wow, where did this come from...and since when does the government know how much pot it takes to kill someone?!?
- gruelin1 rated 5 months agodrugs
- wonderful news for dope fiends the world over! :P
- Yamamushi rated 5 months agodrugs
- here's to less cancer! *smokes*
- Emmers rated 5 months agodrugs
- Not only is it basically impossible to die from a marijuana overdose, smoking pot also lowers your chances of getting lung cancer! What DOESN'T weed do?
- firecrackerdork7 rated 5 months agodrugs
- From the page: "His latest research shows that marijuana smokers actually have a slightly lower incidence of lung cancer than people who do not smoke at all."
- Ror87 rated 5 months agodrugs
- I don't class a question on overdosing weed as "arts", well done whoever tried to tag that one. That's quite an impressive amount to smoke though!
- Antilogo rated 5 months agodrugs
- Well that's good news...
- medog rated 5 months agodrugs
- From the page: "According to the US Government's own research, the lethal dose of marijuana is at least one-third your body weight, consumed in fifteen minutes. If it is smoked, about half of the active ingredient is lost in sidestream smoke, so you would have to smoke about two-thirds of your body weight in marijuana, in about fifteen minutes. There has never been a recorded lethal overdose in humans from the use of marijuana in any form.
The best evidence on lung cancer comes from Dr. Donald Tashkin of UCLA, who is the leading researcher on that topic. His latest research shows that marijuana smokers actually have a slightly lower incidence of lung cancer than people who do not smoke at all. This may be because the active ingredient in marijuana, THC, is known to kill various types of tumors. Marijuana may have a slight protective effect against certain types of cancers.
The most comprehensive long-term study of the effects of marijuana was done by Kaiser Permanente. They studied the records of over 65,000 patients over a period of years. They found that they were no significant differences in the health histories of marijuana smokers versus non-smokers. See http://www.druglibrary.org/crl/aging/sidney-01.html
See also, "What is the lethal dose of marijuana?" at http://druglibrary.org/schaffer/library/mj_overdose.htm "
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