Hmmm. Irrational fear?
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Headline: "Pot Edibles Safer Than Taking Selfies" ;-)
Regards, -scott Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson. |
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Another headline: First two deaths confirmed.
“To our knowledge, these are the first cases of suspected fatal cannabis intoxications where full post-mortem investigations… were carried out,” researchers said in the study, published in Forensic Science International this month. “After exclusion of other causes of death we assume that the young men experienced fatal cardiovascular complications evoked by smoking cannabis.” http://time.com/10372/marijuana-deaths-german-study/ The closer you look, the worse it gets. |
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My point being it's a useless statistic
Compare it to other things and then make a determination about how dangerous it may be. Everything is dangerous. How many people die choking on chicken bones vs. eating a pot brownie, per 1000 instances of use? You need proper relative rates before you can say "oh god its so dangerous halp the poor peeples". Regards, -scott Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson. |
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That's not my objection.
My objection is to the HUGE crowd of "Pot never killed anyone" propagandists. See one-liner below. |
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Alcohol responsible for 1 in 7 deaths among CO adults
http://www.9news.com/story/news/local/2014/06/29/alcohol-responsible-for-1-in-7- deaths-among-co-adults/11699461/ -- Drew |
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In other news: Smoking never killed anyone. Nobody ever died from an overdose of cigarettes.
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stating a fact doesnt help. If you quit smoking at 14yo and died at 97, it was from tobacco
you can kill people for America at age 18 but need to be 21 to buy a beer |
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BBC: Lancet - 1/3 of young men in China will die from smoking if they don't quit.
BBC News: A new study has warned that a third of all men currently under the age of 20 in China will eventually die prematurely if they do not give up smoking. FWIW. Cheers, Scott. |
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I bet you the Party owns the tobacco farms.
Not much motivation to cut their income from being nicotine pushers. But, the taxes need to be cranked up to cover the medical care. Alex "There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge." -- Isaac Asimov |
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Wrong
http://msutoday.msu.edu/news/2008/case-links-woman/ And that took me 5 minutes to find. Imagine if I really went digging. -- Drew |
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Fail.
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She doesn't count?
-- Drew |
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She didn't die from smoking cigarettes, did she?
Besides that, if her asthma was triggered by smoke, it's exceedingly unlikely that the origin of the smoke made any difference. |
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Your examples ...
Self-inflicted gunshot. Jump from a balcony. Murder. None of them died from smoking marijuana. Hell, the third one it's not even the the dead guy who was smoking, and he was mixing pot with prescription meds. -- Drew |
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Plus, you can die from eating nicotine
Some guy in the UK committed suicide with vape refills, as a matter of fact. Regards, -scott Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson. |
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however it works well on hemmoroids
you can kill people for America at age 18 but need to be 21 to buy a beer |
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Sounds about as safe as an alcohol enema.
Regards, -scott Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson. |
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works better than anything else on the market
copenhagen or redman works best. you can kill people for America at age 18 but need to be 21 to buy a beer |
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You certainly can..
It's right up there with the most pestiferous alkaloids (in my ancient Manual of Pharmacology.) A drop or two of the pure substance--applied to a mucous membrane--was said (elsewhere) to be fatal to a med. dog sized creature. But the usually quite dilute 'vape'-grade stuff, and via stomach? sounds like a way to go gradually and painfully. aka Dumb. Jeez ... go out super-calmly: just OD on diacetyl-morphine aka heroin. People won't even do a little chem homework on what to use for your very-last dose of anything. Be lazy/so suffer. |