Marijuana Causes Many Deaths Reported as 'Accidents'
Hamish Turner, the president of the Coroners' Society, told The Telegraph that the marijuana, often portrayed as harmless, has increasingly been the cause of deaths that have been reported as accidents or suicides.
"Cannabis is as dangerous as any other drug and people must understand that it kills," said Mr Turner. "From my long experience I can say that it is a very dangerous substance. Increasingly it is mentioned not only as the first drug taken by people who overdose, but also in suicides and accidental deaths.
"It is an awful waste of young lives. People are trying the drug at a very young age. Many go on to harder drugs and I am dealing with more and more heroin overdoses. People can also suffer severe consequences from the cannabis alone, however.
"Bereaved parents say to me, 'We didn't realise how dangerous it was until it was too late, if only we had done something'. It is heartbreaking."
Turner said that stronger varieties of cannabis are now common, leading to physical and mental problems in young people, compared to the pot that was available in the 1960s.
Source: The Telegraph. "Cannabis use causes 'hundreds of deaths a year', coroner warns" February 2003.
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i think that this artical is full of crap, i have smoked marijuana for the most part of my young adult life, i even roof houses after i have smoked it, and never once has there been an accident. you need to be making these articles about things that are a real problem in society, alcohal, meth, cocaine, and other drugs of that nature.
I think that this article is very misled and full crap.I am 25 years old
and I have smoked marijuana for 7 years. My little brother smokes it and he has a 4.0 gpa in school. I have never had an accident while “under the influence” of marijuana. In fact I think I can focus more and come up with ideas better. Kids who are too young to smoke may have accidents because they are not mature yet. But the extent of the accidents are limited and more than 99% of the time are minor. Alcohol,meth,cocaine,heroin,ecstacy, and other drugs are what should be focused on. Not marijuana. And as for pot being a gateway drug it is only a gateway drug if you allow it to be.
This article is disgusting and makes me sick. Yet another idiot trying to say that a PLANT which has been around forever kills people or is harmful. Not one person in this world has died from marijuana, because it isn’t possible. Hundreds of thousands of people die from the use of cigarettes and alcohol a year. Two things that are government allows to be legal but just attaches an age requirement to it. Alcohol and cigarettes are man made with potent chemicals, yet marijuana grows out of the ground without the help of machines. God made grass man made booze and other nasty drugs. WHO SHOULD YOU TRUST? Wheres the real problem here? Get your facts straight before you go rambling on about “accidents” from marijuana there isn’t any you disgusting government officials you make me sick, and you’re the problem. Keep it Green and smoke on.
its funny how alcohal companies make articles like this and how all the commercials you see on TV about how bad weed is are funded by alcohal companies.
its all about the money thats why its illegal not b/c its dangerous
Tobacco kills about 400,000
Alcohol kills about 80,000
Workplace accidents kill 60,000
Automobiles kill 40,000
Cocaine kills about 2,500
Heroin kills about 2,000
Aspirin kills about 2,000
Marijuana kills 0
There has never been a recorded death due to marijuana at any time in US history.
All illegal drugs combined kill under 20,000 per year, or a small percent of the number killed by alcohol and tobacco.
Tobacco kills more people each year than all of the people killed by all of the illegal drugs in the last one hundred years.
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From The National Center On Addiction And Substance Abuse at Columbia University.
All YOU FOOLS WHO WRITE RETARDED STUFF LIKE THIS HAVENT SMOKED wEED!
If you want to read actual facts based on research reported by respected governmental agencies and universities, go to DrugWarFacts.com and find all kinds of data on this and related topics. From their site:
“Drug War Facts provides reliable information with applicable citations on important public health and criminal justice issues. It is updated regularly by its Editor, Douglas A. McVay.
“Most charts, facts and figures are from government sources, government-sponsored sources, peer reviewed journals and occasionally newspapers. In all cases the source is cited so that journalists, scholars and students can verify, check context and obtain additional information.
“Our mission is to offer useful facts, cited from authoritative sources, to a debate that is often characterized by myths, error, emotion and dissembling. We believe that in time an informed society will correct its errors and generate wiser policies.”
A site sponsored, bought & paid for by the lucrative drug re-hab industry claims marijuana kills. Gee, big surprise. Where’s the data in support? Because there’s a wealth of data that says otherwise.
i hate you bastard liars.
get it str8 damn. Im with u ^ I Hate u guys get some facts before u talk about stuff u dont know. Smoke on
ummm yeah i have smoked weed for about 2 years str8… maybe i like skipped a day or two cuz i was sick. but i smoke at least 5 blunts a day for 2 years. i have never thought about doing n e other drug. i dont know wht this guys is talking about. weed doesnt kill n e one stop lying! really! STOP! people do other drugs because thy want too not because if weed. weed doesnt force u to do n e thing. people MAKE THEIR OWN CHOICES.
thanks bye
p.s smoke a blunt!!!!
whoever wrote this article isnt the ignorant one, they gots a job to do. whoever payed them to write this crap should hang their head. i feel sorry for them based soley on the fact that they refuse to open their minds to the possibility that there is in fact reality other than what they were told.
Smoked pot for over 20 years and thought it was OK until I quit and realized what I had been missing. As far as being dangerous. Two of my close friends were each conviced of manslaughter and sent to prison due to fatal accidents they caused while “only” being high on pot. Those who deny it’s impairing effects are morons. The reason you smoke it is because it DOES IMPAIR YOU making you feel good in the process.
well said Petra.
I agree that the effects while high on pot maybe different for some people, and different for others. I do not currently drive at the moment, however I can absolutely agree that pot does affect your reaction timing. In that scientific fact alone, you can understand that its not the THC in the marijuana that causes you to Overdose, its the time spent at various industrial workplaces while impairing your judgement in the decisions you make that will eventually cause and result in serious industries.
Myself, Im taking an INdustrial pre-trades program in Canada, and am Giving serious thought to quitting pot alltogether. Only because of the scientific tests that have determined that percentages highly increase among accidents while stoned. Even if it is still in your system for more then 2weeks to a month, it can still affect you.
I’ll only speak for myself, I finding out in the course im taking that was unaware of a learning disability that i’ve had, in not being able to memorize, process, and learn the material that I need to be fully qualified to do industrial jobs. Im currently 19, ive been a longterm, and frequent daily user for the past 6+ years of my life. Im unable to comprehend and memorize the information being taught to me. I was completely unaware of that long-term and short term effect of the THC in my system, hey man, maybe I was ignorant in the past. However it is NOT a lie that when users decrease the use of weed, your grades in school, will also see an increase in performance. Thats not just a coincidence you know? Now ive suffered and am now finding out the conseqences of that.
your comment Jeff Siglinger , I can understand, maybe the physical requirements of roofing houses doesnt require a whole lot of physical stress, more of a mental awareness. ANd hey sure, maybe it doesnt effect your performance directly, it does increase the percentage of even a minor injury happening. Industrial trades, such as a machinest or a welder, etc. require more mental alertness and awareness on site, if your working under the influence, or maybe have pot in your system in the last week up to a month, your greatly putting others at risk, operating machinary, drill presses etc. and most importantly putting yourself at the most serious risk of minor, and worst case a serious fatal injuries man, So Dont say that those statistics are “liars” or “inaccurate” its been proven man, scientific tests have shown that, over and over, its fact, you cant ignore facts. For that reason alone, ive choosen to quit smoking pot, maybe the short term effects arent that harmfull, in my case, memory loss has effected my ability to learn and comprehend and prossess the information I JUST LEARNED, I was unable to recognize that in the past duruing my highschool classes etc. Its a proven fact dude, so just dont say that some of theese tests are “false” or inaccurate, because their not.
It’s funny when a Government uses something as harmless as Marijuana.
There are 11 states in the USA that have legalized Marijuana. They have done studies on the subject and have realized that the FDA has GREATLY falsified Marijuana and its effects.
Marijuana has been used for thousands of years on EVERY continent in the world.
What people need to realize is that Marijuana helps a lot of people as well as our economy.
There are more and more stresses and disease popping up and Medical Marijuana is here to save the day.
Relax.
Float Downstream…
Man grows plant.
Man uses plant for industry, medicine and food.
Man is surrounded by men in blue with guns.
Man is sent to prison, where his meals and bed will be paid for by the citizenry for days to decades.
Enjoy soft fascism. So long as you have half a dozen fast food places to choose from, you’re free. Freedom = Fast Food and Football.
America shot itself in the foot by criminalizing the most useful plant on earth. Try this: Google “most useful plant.” What’s that top result? Hmmmm.
go play in traffic
-peace, love, weed
as long as alchol and tabacco, along with other harmful products (food, cosmetics and medicinal drugs) remain legal then there is no reason for marijuna, along with other substances should be illegal. If someone decides to take a mind altering drug then that is their choice, not of the public. As long as they do not effect other persons rights. It is a moral issue.
The medicinal benifits far outway those of the disadvantages, which are close to or none.
And just for aesthetic argument, I quote Bill Hicks, “If someone is aggresive at a sports game, are they high or drunk?”
(All together)
“Drunk”
Sorry alcholics, just accept it
Ok, here’s my 2 bits:
I don’t smoke pot. I gave it an honest chance, 4 or 5 times, and it simply wasn’t for me. I have no desire to ever try it again. However, simply because it’s not my thing, doesn’t mean I should get on my high horse and preach fire and brimstone about how “evil” pot is. THAT is exactly what most of these anti-pot people do.
Most of these people who speak out about the dangers of pot are religous and social prudes. If it were up to most of these repressed morons, we’d change our name from America to Jesusland and anyone who didn’t believe would be burned at the stake. I don’t mean to rag on religion, but how can you say pot is so horrible for your body and then host pot-luck dinners and all-you-can-eat spaghetti dinners. Fried chicken is ok for you because it’s legal? No.
And as for these people that commit crimes while high, well they’re probably just idiots to begin with. They would have done it anyway, they just HAPPENED to be high at the time. For every moron that does something dumb while high, there’s 30 that know their limits and do it for fun.
Part of being an adult is being responible for your actions. If you can’t handle your drugs (whether thats pot, heroine or potato chips), seek help. Otherwise, smoke on, shoot up or whatever else you want to do. I believe they call that freedom, don’t they?
While I can see how marijuana has some negative effects, it’s not a direct killer. If you drink 3 cups of coffee, and then make an error in judgment that kills you, it wasn’t the coffee.
Similarly, people who smoke weed, then do stupid stuff may just be stupid. Mixing drugs is always bad, and can cause your to die. Weed and Coke are very bad. Weed and Alcohol are potentially dangerous if you do not know your limits.
This is still the same propaganda put forth in Reefer Madness, and it’s false. Everything that they say about marijuana can be said for other legal substances, and with more statistical backup. Alcohol, xanax, cigs, etc. Weed is illegal for no good reason.
this is so stupid, i would bet my life on the fact that he has never tried marijuana, yet he judges it.
Has he not read all of the articles all over the internet proving that alcohol is far worse then marijuana, hundreds of death’s from alcohol, and even more from cars for Christs sake. when will politicians stop taxing us for the use a plant.
I bet the government would legalize it if they had a plantation, and could rip off the whole country.
This article is nothing more than ####### propaganda and this mentality is the reason millions of innocent lives are destroyed in the legal system!
how do you not know if the people had thoughts about suicide before using marijuana? and THC the chemical that makes up marijauna wont kill you after using it ( depending on you immune system) once or twice , or mabe over a long period. the only thing i have heard of is dieing from lung cancer.
MARIJUANA OR AS I CALL HER MARY-JANE IS THE MAIN KEY TO OUR MINDS THAT RELEASE THAT INNER KID IN ALL OF US. U.P.S REPRESENT!
was up
I find it interesting that the majority of comments posted defending marijuana use are written by people who are current users… therefore, have affected thinking processes. Of course you’ll defend it’s euphoric effect on your life ~ who wouldn’t want to fight for the right to “feel good”? Pehaps you’d be better off renaiming your fight “the right to be stupid”.
Do some serious CURRENT research on web sites other than NORML, especially you young men. The latest research out there, not offered by religous freaks who want to remname America “Jesusland” (Gary), but by medical doctors and researchers at places like the Mayo Clinic, Brown University, and the like… did you know for instance, that marijuana smoking can cause erectile dysfunction and decreased sperm count at a very early age? If that’s not “life threatening” I don’t know what is! (Sorry honey, I just can’t seem to get it up but hey… why don’t we light one up and relax… it’s all good baby!)
I see the same defense of marijuana in my own son. He is 17 years old and has been smoking pot for two years. Sadly, he is a changed kid. I empathize with Chad,who is trying to further his education and he doesn’t have the memory racall or capacity that he once had. My sons gpa has had a slow an steady decrease. His relationship with his family is fragile at best. He has been kicked out of a class, asked to leave the wrestling team, sullied our name in the school community where we had already graduated three other well respected students. When I talk to him, it’s not him talking but the marijuana. He’s in there somewhere and I remain hopeful that he’ll emerge from his self induced cannibus cocoon. It is a false reality. And Stephanie? “go play in traffic” is not the best of advice.. I would advise you to stay out of traffic!!!
Don’t tell me that marijuana doesn’t change you. You don’t see the change because you live in a euphoric state of mind. If you have been using for a long time, it’s still in your system even when you’re not high. You want freedom? You got it. Freedom to attach your life to a substance that you can no longer feel good, relax and have fun without. That is not freedom my friend , that is bondage. You have enslaved yourself to the very thing you shout that you want the freedom to do! What twisted thinking! You are mistaking freedom for self indulgence. If that’s your rationale, then I want freedom too… freedom from having to deal with the ramifications of my son’s stupid decisions. Feeedom from waking up in the middle of the night wondering where he is. Freedom from the arguing, the door slamming, freedom from watching what was once a vibrant young kid now lay around on the couch sleeping off his high. Freedom without boundaries is nothing but chaos. Here’s a simple little lesson ~ think of a river. A strong and mighty river. Now take away the banks of the river, the boundaries if you will. Give that river freedom. Over time, you’ll have a swamp. Now take a look at your life.
One more thing… for those of you who give the same weak and feeble excuse that my son gives “it’s a plant, it’s all natural, blah, blah, blah” I give you the following list – All Plants, All Natural, Came from the good earth, came from “God” as Dan says… try ingesting one of these and let me know how it works for you.
Aconite
Apple (Balsam)
Apple (Bitter)
Baneberry
Bloodroot
Bryony, Black
Bryony, European White
Bryony, White
Cabbage Tree
Calabar Bean
Calotropis Cherry Laurel
Clematis
Coca, Bolivian
Cocculus, Indicus
Dropwort, Hemlock Water
Foxglove
Gelsemium
Hellebore, Black
Hellebore, False
Hellebore, Green
Hellebore, White Hemlock
Hemlock, Water
Hemp, Indian
Ignatius Beans
Ivy, Poison
Laburnum
Laurel, Mountain
Lovage, Water
Mescal Buttons
Nightshade, Black
Nightshade, Deadly Nux Vomica
Paris, Herb
Poppy, White
Saffron, Meadow
Spurges
Stavesacre
Strophanthus
Thornapple
Wake Robin, American
Yew
P. S. Why is it that most people who defend the right to smoke… write like they’ve been smoking? They can’t spell, they can’t punctuate, they can’t form complete sentances, oh yeah.. and the government is ALWAYS a target. They, of course, are to blame for you not being able to indulge in your illegal little habit. This would be the same government that protects your right to whine, complain, swear, and pretend like you know what you are talking about while you post it in cyberspace. That government right?
DIDO what Donna said! Well put. Unfortunately, I don’t think you can talk someone out of an addiction. They will defend it like the good little pot slaves they are. They live in a cloud.
not once in this article does he specify what those oh so disturbing dangers are. he sais suicides, and accidents. how much more General can it get? i’m 20 years old and been smoking since 12. not once did i have a problem physically or mentally. i’ve smoked cigarettes since last july, and i already feel the affects of that!!
FREE THE WEED!!!
hey chad you’re a jackass. I’m a machinist and I smoke at least two joints a day. I do a good job , I don’t scrap parts, and I don’t have accidents. as far as your comments on concentration goes. I have had concentration problems since childhood, it’s called ADD not “marijuana abuse”. Maybe you should refrain from smoking pot while you’re doing something important.
Hey Donna, if you would~
“I find it interesting that the majority of comments posted defending marijuana use are written by people who are current users… therefore, have affected thinking processes.” Well what about the many pharmacuticals or OTC drugs? Or alcohol or tobacco? I’m sure you have your drug too, even if that happens to be food! It all alters your body and your mind.
“Of course you’ll defend it’s euphoric effect on your life ~ who wouldn’t want to fight for the right to “feel good”? Pehaps you’d be better off renaiming your fight “the right to be stupid”.” Well first of all, regardless of its use as a euphoric effects or its use as a medicine, to fight for the right to feel good makes complete sense. Responsible adults should be allowed to make their own decisions as adults. This includes if they want to be stupid. As long as they don’t use it irresponsibly and don’t harm any others, its their own personal decision and no one should have control over it.
“Do some serious CURRENT research on web sites other than NORML, especially you young men.” Yes, well I would say about 95% of all research you find on and off the internet support marijuana as a non-lethal, relatively safe drug. It is often referred to as the “most safe psychoactive drug,” which includes alcohol as well as many perscription drugs. I’ve only found about 10 sites against marijuana, and they all seem to be refrencing to the same sites which the government uses. And they are all either lieing, biased, or worded in a way to make people misinterperet.
“The latest research out there, not offered by religous freaks who want to remname America “Jesusland” (Gary), but by medical doctors and researchers at places like the Mayo Clinic, Brown University, and the like… did you know for instance, that marijuana smoking can cause erectile dysfunction and decreased sperm count at a very early age? If that’s not “life threatening” I don’t know what is! (Sorry honey, I just can’t seem to get it up but hey… why don’t we light one up and relax… it’s all good baby!)” Gary did not want to rename America “Jesusland,” he was mocking the many neo-conservative Republicans in America who want to inflict their religious beliefs on the citizens. Also, what makes you creditable? Marijuana can not cause erectile dysfunction because the chemicals in it cause blood vessels to widen slightly with inital, short-term use, and have no affects on them at later times. This information I have found in several reports from UCLA, Cambridge, The Center for Substance Abuse, President Bill Clinton, and has been included in NIDA notes. It is definately NOT life threatening. And even if those statements were true, as Americans we should have the right to choose if we want to be sterile or not. But thankfully for the millions of marijuana users, it is not true.
“I see the same defense of marijuana in my own son. He is 17 years old and has been smoking pot for two years.” It looks like you have some disciplinary issues, if your child is doing something that you dissaprove of, then it’s your job to do something about it.
“Sadly, he is a changed kid. I empathize with Chad,who is trying to further his education and he doesn’t have the memory racall or capacity that he once had. My sons gpa has had a slow an steady decrease. His relationship with his family is fragile at best.” You, like so many others, blame the marijuana for the problem. It couldn’t possibly be the environment he’s in, the parents, what he might be dealing with in or out of school, etc. And if he really does have a problem, which it is possible to get MENTALLY addicted to marijuana, as it is possible to get MENTALLY addicted to ANYTHING, then he needs help. As for Chad, again he blames those problems on marijuana, which has been proven scientifically numerous times not to cause those. How do we know he did not have learning disabilities before he began using marijuana? Reports tie many accidents to marijuana, when they rarely in actuality they don’t say whether or not it was in their system or if they were under the influence of said drug. Often, they weren’t under its influence at the time, or they were as well as under the influence of other substances. Marijuana does slow reaction time, but it also decreases risk taking, meaning you are less likely to do something requiring a great reaction time. And regardless, unless its to cure an ailment, being a responsible adult means not handling heavy machinery under the influence of any drug. Your father-in-law (I assume, unless you call your own father your son’s grandfather) is suffering memory and social problems? This couldn’t possibly be due to his family’s lack of acceptance to his marijuana use, or his increasing age. Don’t be so quick to judge all your problems on marijuana because a few people you know who have problems use marijuana.
“He has been kicked out of a class, asked to leave the wrestling team, sullied our name in the school community where we had already graduated three other well respected students.” You ridiculed others about their bad grammar and spelling and you have a lick of that yourself. Don’t think that marijuana has caused this, it’s society’s lack of acceptance of marijuana. And on top of that, drug use SHOULDN’T be used during school hours even by adults because while UNDER THE INFLUENCE (usually a couple hours after intake) short-term memory is decreased and the chance to convert short-term memory into long-term memory is decreased, hence unless you’re curing an ailment that further decreases your ability to learn, it should be left for another time. Also, he obviously seems depressed and outcast, which makes him dependent on finding an outlet, whether that be marijuana for him, chocolate for someone else, or video games for another, he’s trying to bury his troubles instead of getting help, not a good thing. This isn’t a result of the marijuana use, this is why he’s using marijuana.
“When I talk to him, it’s not him talking but the marijuana. He’s in there somewhere and I remain hopeful that he’ll emerge from his self induced cannibus cocoon. It is a false reality.” As someone who has experienced great depressions and anxiety, and also a person who has experienced the influence of marijuana (but has not for a significant amount of time to where none affects my body currently), I can tell you that when someone is depressed or anxious, as your child must obviously be, they sound droned and uninterested in anything at all. They usually have an outlet and all of their attention goes to that outlet. He needs help not drugs, as I’ve said earlier. And his distance from you must also stem from your ridicule and dissaproval of him.
“And Stephanie? “go play in traffic” is not the best of advice.. I would advise you to stay out of traffic!!!” She was telling the original writer and the people who were quoted in it to “go play in traffic,” as to say “go become seriously hurt or killed.” It’s not general advise it’s a general animosity towards someone who opposes her for no viable or true reasons.
“Don’t tell me that marijuana doesn’t change you. You don’t see the change because you live in a euphoric state of mind.” Marijuana can change you, as can the introduction of anything new into your life. As well, any drug’s effects are caused by changes in the body, so if it didn’t change you it wouldn’t be doing its job. And that change is most often a more calm, peaceful change that makes people relax and feel easy, not an effect like LSD or extacy. Socially it may change you because so many people will not accept you. Marijuana’s illegality is its most detremental effect.
“If you have been using for a long time, it’s still in your system even when you’re not high.” Regardless of how long you have been using, it stays in your body for no longer than an average of a month without using any kind of detoxification methods, including sweating from working out. After a couple hours, it stops affecting you at all psychoactively. Just because it is in your system does not mean it has any effects on you other than showing positive on a drug test.
“You want freedom? You got it. Freedom to attach your life to a substance that you can no longer feel good, relax and have fun without.” First of all, Americans should have that freedom if they so choose. Second, you’re basing that off of twisting observations biased by personal experiences. I know many very successful, healthy people who smoke marijuana, feel good when they’re not on it, and can relax and have fun perfectly sober! Use does not inhibit or prevent these during sobriety in any way, shape or form.
“That is not freedom my friend , that is bondage. You have enslaved yourself to the very thing you shout that you want the freedom to do! What twisted thinking! You are mistaking freedom for self indulgence.” That IS freedom, or have you forgotten what freedom is? Freedom of CHOICE? And marijuana is not bonding any more than anything else, it is mentally addictive because it makes most people relax and feel good. But mental addiction may happen with ANYTHING in the world. It is not physically addicting, and does not produce withdrawal symptoms. Even after long-term use.
“If that’s your rationale, then I want freedom too… freedom from having to deal with the ramifications of my son’s stupid decisions. Feeedom from waking up in the middle of the night wondering where he is. Freedom from the arguing, the door slamming, freedom from watching what was once a vibrant young kid now lay around on the couch sleeping off his high.” You have that freedom, you have the legal rights to stop these actions, and you have the legal rights to leave so long as he is placed with a viable gaurdian. Marijuana smokers do not have the freedom to smoke. And, again, many of the problems you listed above are not stemming from marijuana use, but from social, emotional, and psychological problems, none of which are caused by marijuana use, but may be influenced by the outcast set upon him because it is not socially accepted and you do not accept it.
“Freedom without boundaries is nothing but chaos. Here’s a simple little lesson ~ think of a river. A strong and mighty river. Now take away the banks of the river, the boundaries if you will. Give that river freedom. Over time, you’ll have a swamp. Now take a look at your life.” You think there are no boundaries, and you think that removal of marijuana laws would mean there would be no boundaries? And you think that responsible adults can’t decide for themselves when to stop smoking marijuana, the same way responsible adults decide to stop drinking alcohol? Take away the marijuana laws and you have lower crime rates, lower marijuana use, lower other illicit drug rates, and lower TAXES since you won’t have to pay for all the innocent pot smokers in jail!
“One more thing… for those of you who give the same weak and feeble excuse that my son gives “it’s a plant, it’s all natural, blah, blah, blah” I give you the following list – All Plants, All Natural, Came from the good earth, came from “God” as Dan says… try ingesting one of these and let me know how it works for you.” I do give you this is a very good point, the excuse “it’s a plant, it’s all natural,” is not viable as is so many dangerous things. However, it is proven safe in many ways, and if you drag God into this, it seems that marijuana is referred to in the Bible numerous times, such as the “Tree of Life” which promotes “the healing of all nations.”
“Aconite
Apple (Balsam)
Apple (Bitter)
Baneberry
Bloodroot
Bryony, Black
Bryony, European White
Bryony, White
Cabbage Tree
Calabar Bean
Calotropis Cherry Laurel
Clematis
Coca, Bolivian
Cocculus, Indicus
Dropwort, Hemlock Water
Foxglove
Gelsemium
Hellebore, Black
Hellebore, False
Hellebore, Green
Hellebore, White Hemlock
Hemlock, Water
Hemp, Indian
Ignatius Beans
Ivy, Poison
Laburnum
Laurel, Mountain
Lovage, Water
Mescal Buttons
Nightshade, Black
Nightshade, Deadly Nux Vomica
Paris, Herb
Poppy, White
Saffron, Meadow
Spurges
Stavesacre
Strophanthus
Thornapple
Wake Robin, American
Yew” All viable points, as I said earlier.
“P. S. Why is it that most people who defend the right to smoke… write like they’ve been smoking? They can’t spell, they can’t punctuate, they can’t form complete sentances, oh yeah.. and the government is ALWAYS a target. They, of course, are to blame for you not being able to indulge in your illegal little habit. This would be the same government that protects your right to whine, complain, swear, and pretend like you know what you are talking about while you post it in cyberspace. That government right?” You had numerous grammatical and spelling errors in this portion of your writing, if you’d notice. And random comment posts are in no sense a way to pass judgement on someone’s English skills as they are often typing in shorthand. Besides, these people are indulging in a peaceful, harmless habit that happens to currently be illegal do to slander in politics, but should they be indulging in “good” legal habits like smoking, drinking, eating, or using perscription drugs? And what of the people who don’t use it as a habit and use it in medicinal purposes, even if it is for treatment in depression, anxiety or insomnia? I greatly appreciate our (limited) freedom of speech, but giving the excuse that the government gives you one freedom isn’t enough to take away another. That’s a completely faulty arguement.
How do you like that? You thought you were so smart and I tore you apart with facts and knowledge. Ignorance will never rise above the truth, even if it seems in control. So don’t come busting in on something without knowing everything. And note that I do not know everything about your relations with the people you mentioned, but I made general inferences from the information supplied. So if I was wrong and you can truely prove that, I apologize.
Legalize marijuana.
I don’t smoke pot. But I know people who do. One of the people I know smokes daily and gets straight A’s in college. And 1 I know smokes daily and gets straight F’s. I have yet to find some who died from oversmoking and I doubt I will. So, like any other drug on the market, Marijuana effects people differently. Which is why, like any drug on the market, people should understand that until you know the effects the drug will have on you set aside a few hours where you don’t have anything to do. And if its not your first time, please go somewhere that you will be safe from causing anyone or yourself harm.
I def agree with bigbear. ^^^^ It’s not the fault of the drug but rather the fault of the user. (guns dont kill people, people kill people).
ok what hard proof is there in direct deaths and what direct deaths are from alchol cigs and other drugs. yup knowone died from weed
This is ridiculous. If it kills, tell me how. If it kills, give me some science. Give me facts. Show me.
The truth is, it does not kill. It is not as dangerous as heroin, so don’t give me that string of incredible lies.
If someone dies who is known to use marijuana, there is absolutely no evidence–medical or simply discovered via common sense– that points directly to the marijuana. There is no killing chemical in killing amounts. There is no physical dependency (such as with heroin). If an accident occurs that kills a person? You know, it’s the person. If they’re being “stupid” and that’s what makes weed so dangerous, then why isn’t alcohol finding the same outcry?
There is no science here. There is no real statement in this article except for the same old baseless, matronly weeping that everyone hears and only the incredibly ignorant believe. Is this the best out of the Coroners’ Society? How shameful.
I wish things such as marijuana were better understood by those who don’t partake of it’s amenities. Sadly it’s harder to explain to a person what the smoking of the plant actually causes within a person’s mind than it is to explain the effects on the body. Surely, those that debate it’s “harmful” effects have better things to do than to try and prove something so trivial. Listen to me and listen carefully, marijuana effects you and your mind the way you want it to. Many times, just after smoking I’ve sobered up instantly because something needed my full concentration, it’s all mental. For those with a week will power, it’s definitely harder only because they lack the capacity to understand what they want.
Just so I’m not sitting idlely by and letting someone so uneducated about marijuana go on about how their seventeen year old son is a “changed child” because of it. Come on! Seventeen? Of course he is going to change! I swear, some people would rather blame something they don’t understand than to see the truth behind anything.
Myself, being a person well versed in today’s society, understand that certain emotions arise when a person is under the influence. Of course we get deffencive, everyone does just look at war. I have yet to hear of a war starting because someone was smoking pot, and I believe that it will never happen. However, wars have started for more idiotic reasons, like because someone didn’t like the way another looked at them and decided to fight them, for a simplistic example.
But I digress, I have lived a life smoke free off and on and throughout my years of living in this world, I have come to realize that those who would try and exert their will on people that smoke come from the same dogmatic and ill advised persons of “authority” albeit misplaced authority, and it is from those people that arise the rediculous notion of marijuana having “harmful” effects. If it is, then so is air, water, the ground you walk on, the sunlight you use to see with and the goddamn orange color of my walls!
I leave you now, not with the hopes that some of you incorrect persons will change your standing. Just the hope that all of you feel ashamed of yourself for holding such idiotic ideas. Go out and get a real education, and I’m not talking about money loving colleges, go out and experience life! Or, stay cooped up inside your silly little caves and your wastefull jobs and careers, I don’t care. Just make sure that the next time you say something about which you haven’t the slightest clue, you reflect on what lies you spread and realize that you really aren’t a good person, realize that you don’t deserve this life, or this world. I wash my hands of this insanity.
You all are idiots!
Pot may not kill anyone directly but I will tell you it kills the mind, memory, reflexes, and just plain makes you stupid! I smoked daily for years and years, ended up flunking out of school and ballooned up to over 200#! Now I am sure that pot wasn’t the only culprit but definitely the main one! Once I got sober, I lost an immediate 20# and I graduated Magna Cum Laude! Hello! A definite correlation!
To Samantha who reported the yearly stats, al beit very interesting – most of those drug related deaths were folks who probably first started smoking pot! My father was one of the Heroin deaths but guess what he started with first and did the most? POT! He could barely hold on a converation because he had no memory! This was before the Heroin!
I am beginning to believe that the Fallen Angels really are here on earth, and they arrived in the early 20th century. They are responsible for banning all good plants that God gave us. Unfortunately for all humanity, articles like this are written by people who dont know the power of the Devil, and have the backing of the Media. Is’nt it crazy that one of the most important plants on earth is illegal worldwide?
have you ever seen someone smoke a joint ,and then want to git in a fight ? now have a few people get drunk and then see how meny fights there are . The only reason that it is not legal is becuse it would be hard to tax the hell out of it .
SMOKE WEED EVERY DAY! doesent harm a soul so shutup you old man river canadian bastard?
Just another load of BS from the white haired fools who run our countries. Once again no solid reason and please spare me the accident antics. I’m sorry I don’t buy it at all nor do I buy the it ruined my childs life BS. Ridiculous myths and not facts at all. I mean we have Lawyers, Politicians, Physicians, and Scientist backing us up here. There is no way people as dignified as them wold represent or even think of legalizing something that could truly put someone in harms way. This all boils down to the tax issue as well as society being very close minded. I mean if we can drink liquor until our skin is yellow and smoke cigarettes till we develop lung cancer. Why can’t we hit a blunt come down off our high and go on with regular life just like everyone else. No we are junkies, low life’s, and accident prone idiots. Everyones experiences are not the same. My heart goes out to those who feel Marijuana ruined their lives or affected their lives in a bad way. However there are millions of others with a much better perspective to share. Legalizing or at the very least lowering the severity of punishment is the best answer IMO. I mean if the government was run off of a handful of accidents or occurrences the system would be in shambles.
ive been smokin weed for 5 years everyday and i dont think it hurts me or anyone else. im only in 10th grade and it doesnt affect my school work i still get A’s and B’s so it should be legalized! In order to die you have to smoke 5 times your weight and if you ever got that much you would pass out before you even came close to finishing. but cigaretes kill around a half million people a year and alcohol kills around 80,000 people, when weed has killed none. i can drive better when im high rather than when im drunk. so therefore alcohol has a worse affect.
ok here if you have died from weed you are just stupid and you definatly win the darwin award -congrats-
i mean as much as it is used in this argument it holds a valid point ciggs and alchohol are so much worse for you then marijuana both physicly and mentally i mean alchohol is rated up there as being as addictive as heroine if marijuana were to be legal it is said it would bring in annually 7 billion dollars hmm dont you think that then educational and health providers and even harder drug control agencies could use that money? i mean tax payers you are messing up almost getting screwed. we pay all this money in taxes that go toward the war on drugs and as far as marujuana goes it has been a total failiure and is just a waste of money. marijuana is still the united states biggest cash crop and will always be. you say that big companies will get involved and add addictive subsstances into it but why not keep it like it is and have regular people grow it for the state like medical providers do. ultimatly you get clean people to do it and hey its another job that may be needed for families. you say that kids become dumber well i know kids with varying gpa’s that all smoke marijuana. show me the proof!!!!!!! they have done studies showing that long time and short time use have almost no effect on the mind and body. ok think of this maybe ur kid is just a freakin idiot and thats why he can not seem to pass a damn class. think of this when al capone tried selling alcholhol illegaly what happened? he got alot of money and got other people to catch on to his crimes. what happened when alchohol became legal? he lost his buisness lost money and crime ultimatly went down. do we have any alchohol dealers today? no, but we do have marijuana dealers the kind of people all you soccer moms complain about being in ur neighbor hood but yet you refuse to fix the issue by legalizing marijuana. now the same thing would happen drug dealers wont make any money there will be less crime and to satisfy all the soccer moms the neighbor hood will be less “dirty” you have all heard the death ratio on other drugs compared to weed so i wont bore you with it but i mean 0 deaths i mean religion kills more people for gods sakes should we not make church and religion illegal? i mean hell id get killed faster in a religios debate over smoking a joint every once in a while. my sister went into a AA meating where there are drug addicts as well with my alchoholic step mom ( another long story of the differace of alchohol and weed lol) and when she announce that she was there for weed the councilor just laughed and said honey thats not a real drug lol anyway i have to go school is over so all in all i say let freedom grow peace
Together we can stop the war. The war is a spirit cancer. Every country must invest in EDUCATION. Every country must recognize THE INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY.The young people are THE PEACE OF THE WORLD.
Substante toxice de lupta se impart in doua categorii :A.Letale;B;Neletale; Psihodislepticele fac parte din categoria SUBSTANTELOR TOXICE DE LUPTA NELETALE. Psihodislepticele sunt substante care produc perturbari grave ale activitatii psihice, substante care deviaza judecata in mod delirant. Din categoria psihodislepticelor fac parte si substantele halucinogene de origine naturala fara azot in molecula.TETRAHIDROCANABINOLUL (THC). THC este principalul principiu activ halucinogen prezent in varfurile florale ale plantei CANABIS SATIVA varietatea INDICA (CANEPA INDIANA), precum si in toate partile acestei plante.Drogurile obtinute din canepa indiana poarta diferite denumiri (dupa regiunea geografica in care este recoltata si partea de planta folosita), dintre care cele mai raspandite sunt HASIS pentru rezina si MARIHUANA pentru flori (care sunt amestecate cu frunze si alte parti ale plantei).Toxicomania indusa de drogurile obtinute din canepa indiana , « CANABISMUL », este o toxicomanie majora , cu o extindere mare pe plan mondial fiind considerata ca un flagel social, care vizeaza intr-o mare masura tineretul. » Martian Cotrau, Lidia Popa, Teodor Stan, Nicolae Preda, Maria Kincses-Ajtay-Toxicologie-Ed.Didactica si Pedagogica Bucuresti 1991,p.162.
« Psihodislepticele sunt substante care produc perturbari grave ale activitatii psihice, substante care deviaza judecata in mod delirant. In general efectele lor se caracterizeaza prin cateva trasaturi comune, producand stari de depersonalizare, perceperea anormala a timpului si spatiului si halucinatii.Aceste substante se mai denumesc si substante halucinogene, fantastice, depersonalizante, schizofrenomimetice etc.Substantele psihodisleptice au implicatii toxicologice deosebite, efectele lor fiind manifestarea actiunii toxice la nivelul sferelor superioare ale psihicului. Multe dintre ele induc dependenta psihica puternica, deci toxicomania respectiva.Dozele halucinogene sunt in general mici (uneori sub 1mg), astfel incat pot produce intoxicatii acute cu sfarsit letal prin depasirea dozelor.Unele au efecte teratogene. Psihodislepticele prezinta implicatii sociale grave prin consumul mare pe plan mondial , in special la tineret , degradarea morala a subiectilor consumatori si producerea a numeroase acte antisociale. Multe substante psihodisleptice sunt cuprinse in grupul claselor noi de SUBSTANTE TOXICE DE LUPTA. »Martian Cotrau, Lidia Popa, Teodor Stan, Nicolae Preda, Maria Kincses-Ajtay- TOXICOLOGIE-Ed.Didactica Si Pedagogica Bucuresti, 1991, p.159. TMP- trimetoxi-3,4,5, fenilpropan, 2-amina face parte din categoria SUBSTANTELOR TOXICE DE LUPTA NELETALE-PSIHODISLEPTICE.Chimia nu este nici COMUNISTA, nici CAPITALISTA, CHIMIA inseamna VIATA SI MOARTE, PACE si RAZBOI. In scoala romaneasca am invatat sa aparam VIATA SI PACEA.Suntem parinti si cetateni ai lumii si ne pasa de toti tinerii!
Cu respect, Profesor+chimist+ofiter Cornelia Vodoiu.
HA!!! this is funny shit all u pople who spend all thier time writing articles about how it hurts u half of u old pople who write this crap don’t know what there talking about!!!!!!!!
2 ME MARIJUANA IS THE BEST THING EVER ITS BEEN SMOKE 4 YEARS AND I AM GOING TO KEEP SMOKING ALL DAY ALL DAY!!!!!
yea there al thi resarch that it leads to other drungs.
YEA IF UR STUPID ENOUFGH!!
LEAVE MERY ALONG SHE COOL SHE WAS BUT IN THI WORLD FOR A RESON!!
SMOKE ALL DAY!!!!!!
4RM!!!!
DGK
AKA
dURTY GETTO KIDS
ALL DAY ALL ALL DAY!!!!
WALK-TOWN!!!
“You all are idiots!
Pot may not kill anyone directly but I will tell you it kills the mind, memory, reflexes, and just plain makes you stupid! I smoked daily for years and years, ended up flunking out of school and ballooned up to over 200#! Now I am sure that pot wasn’t the only culprit but definitely the main one!
Once I got sober, I lost an immediate 20# and I graduated Magna Cum Laude! Hello! A definite correlation!
To Samantha who reported the yearly stats, al beit very interesting – most of those drug related deaths were folks who probably first started smoking pot! My father was one of the Heroin deaths but guess what he started with first and did the most? POT! He could barely hold on a converation because he had no memory! This was before the Heroin!
”
Your middle paragraph implying that stopping pot was a reason for you graduating magna cum laude, shows me that your logical abilities have never been very strong in the first place. Ever heard of the phrase “correlation doesn’t imply causation?”
Wtf kind of educational institution would give any award to someone devoid of logical reasoning?
all that need to happen is people need to learn how to handel there drugs or not do then at all some people enjoy smoking pot.I smoke everyday a few times a day and i go to school and do everything that i should do when i an no under the influence. Give the green a chance and see that even theo one person may not like it, its a great thing for other people!!!
SMOKE AWAY!!!!!!
Donna you clearly don’t know what you are talking about. If your son is having all these problems, then it’s your fault. You have the say as to wether or not he smokes. Be a human and have some backbone. Get you son to stop if he has problems. Not everyone has the same effects and problems. Weed doesn’t kill or ruin lives itself. Pot can’t be the only thing that caused your son to be less focused.. its his surroundings aswell. So are you telling me that your son got kicked out of class because of pot. That make a whole lot of sense.
“Freedom to attach your life to a substance that you can no longer feel good, relax and have fun without.” Have you ever tried it? THAT DOESNT HAPPEN. Your telling me that scince I have tried it i will never have a good time or ever relax again? That is bullshit… Donna get your facts straight. Tell me one time when pot has killed someone. Sure it can change the way you act, but that is because thats the way you choose to act. I am the same as I was before, no smarter nor dumber.
Ya your right donna, ingesting poison ivy isn’t that good of an idea. Gee did you think of that yourself? Of course not ALL plants are good to ingest.. But pot is
Legalize it
Nice Try, but this is completely untrue. Marijuana would be the only drug I would ever do. Nobody Has ever died from marijuana alone. Nobody has ever overdosed on it, and it is believed that you must smoke your own bodyweight in marijuana to overdose. It may cause hunger, or maybe a respitory infection at the worst, but that’s nothing very serious at all. Just don’t try any other drugs and you’ll be good.
There is no cited records or facts in this article and it’s heresay. And to whoever Ember is, if you honestly think that the government is going to give you actual facts when they just as well don’t have to, then god bless you honey I need say nothing further. We are talking about America which has the highest concetrations of blood in pus allowed in milk, that pumps meat with steroids and hormones in inhumane conditions, that has millions of people hooked on pharmaceutical drugs, and where one can be old enough to fight in a war but is not old enough to drink alcohol. A country where processed foods and chemical additives are deemed safe but yet one of the most anciently used medicinal herbs is illegal. There have been cultures that used to revere this plant as not only beneficial to humans but a gift and embodiment of the divine. Never before has there been a culture so far away from nature and if you trust in this society as knowing what is safe to put in your body then just look at the high majority of Americans that are morbidly obese, suffering from diabetes, and all types of unnaturally caused cancers! And you tell me that these government sources are respected. All I have to say is a big PLEASE. No one is being fooled here, honey, but you.
The rouble with articles like this one is the same as the DARE program. Inaccurate info leads to kids trying pot when they’re too young to make an informed decision… and when they find out pot isn’t dangerous or addictive as it was touted to be- then they think ALL drug info is crap. That IS dangerous. Pot should never have been classified in the same family as heroin and cocaine. Just shows you a little info can make a minor situation a major problem.
I have smoked pot for the last five years, and during that time I graduated college, landed a great job, and have an exceptional home life. i have a great family and never have had a problem with Marijuana. Honestly, I think alcohol is MUCH MUCH worse that pot. Alcohol makes you feel sick, hungover, aggressive. Pot does none of those things.
I, however, do agree that it – just like any other drug – can be harmful. A good friend of mine will not put down the video games or wash his clothes because all he wants to do is smoke pot all day (despite his social awekwardness, he holds down a good job). Hell, even caffeine is bad for you, pretty bad actually.
It frustrates me to no end that all these people will pop prescription drug after drug, even tho the side effects are far worse than anything pot ever did, but when marijuana is discussed, they treat is like the devil.
Come on people, WAKE UP!!!
Why get high? Why alter your perceptions, mood, chemistry? You are a fabulous miracle of nature just as you are. Why change your basic nature of peaceful, intelligent, sentient, mindful, purposeful, successful, humorous, and so much more good?
Live. Your Life!
This article is rediculous, there isn’t a single bit of factual evidence to support the idea. “Marijuana kills children” is not a fact. That is like me saying ‘Marijuana has been shown to make people rich because people who smoke marijuana play the lottery’ (they probably don’t cuz they’re spending their money on weed, but either way, neither proves anything). The truth is there are -0- deaths attributed to thc intake (the drug in marijuana that makes you high). If you get into a car accident while high, you died from a car accident. You cannot overdose on thc and thc cannot kill you (you -could- get cancer from smoking, but there are methods to take in thc without smoking, so thats not really the marijuana to blame but your own personal habits).
picture the scenario – you are in the underground station – it’s the last train of the night – the train arrives – it has two coaches – one is full of alcoholic passengers – the other is full of marijuana passengers – which one of the coaches will you join?
I will tell you, I am an drug addict and I am very clean but not clean from Marijuana. It is all about control. You have to have control over it before you can mess with it. This is the most saftest drug out there. Yes every drug is bad in it’s own way. Marijuana is nothing like cocaine and crack or any other drug. You can damn sure eat, drink, sleep and function more then any other drug. The problem is that you can not pass a drug test. You can sniff cocaine and pass a drug test in two days. Kind of shame that you can drive a car on marijuana but have to wait 30 days from your last smoke to pass a drug test. You can drive a car and do anything on marijuana. Yes I agree any drug is bad, but I will tell you I’d rather someone smoke pot then drink for the rest of their life. I think we all know what acholhol does to us. I have been sober from Marijuana for two months just to pass a drug test but I think it is a shame that I can sniff cocaine. Don’t you????
It is all about control. If you can live your life without it, then more power to you. I have bad axiety and I love to smoke it. My parents don’t agree with it. I know it is bad it is like smoking five ciggerettes at one time. But if it keeps me away from any other drug that is highy addictive then that is what it takes. I am thankful that my parents don’t agree with drinking or any other drug; there is no place like home. I will tell you that if you need something there is nothing better then smoking a little. Drinking is the worst thing to turn to and I have my brother as an example. I can smoke and not turn into a different person like him. Yeah I will agree it is bad but It is no where bad as the other drugs. I became a drug addict from marijuana because I did not know how to control it. I will tell you that you have to have that control in order to live your life with it. I learned the hard way but now I know and there is nothing in the world in today’s society 2008 that marijuana looks bad!!!! Sorry but it is true.
I’ve noticed that most who defended daily pot smoking here have poor linquistic skills. Hmmm.
Smoked pot during college – I loved it but it lowered my judgment & I wound up having to quit college to raise a baby. After I had him, I resumed smoking but quit when I realized he suffered due to my laziness, carelessness, and selfishness when I smoked. I’ve smoked it once since, & now I realize it made me stupid – not an adjective I like in reference to myself. I don’t care what other people do, but don’t be selfish & ruin other lives. AND STAY OFF THE ROADS! I admit, I missed stop signs & red lights – it was funny at the time, but now – I love my life & it chills me to think I raised the chances of not having one.
pot has harmful effects like everything. youre taking a risk no matter wat. its the decision u make for yourself. im living proof that pot can take a toll on your brain. shut the hell up to all u kids that wanna argue that pot is harmless. youre stupid and brainwashed!!
I am not a pot user myself but am married to one. He had depression issues but will not take medication. Of course the use of pot is okay with him. He is fine and happy when stoned but gets angry and hostile and more depressed between smokes. Does this make it difficult to live with him? It sure as hell does. He has quit for periods of time and those periods are the best for our relationship. But the pull of pot is too strong. He chooses it over me, his wife, his kids and other things in his life. Pot is not harmless. It may not kill people but it can definitely kill relationships.
First off, i’ve never been high. I tried marijuana once and didn’t get the high (can someone explain that to me?) Anyways, overdone is never any good.
Have you heard of everything in moderation?
If you’re smoking on a weekend or monthly it’s probably not going to do you any harm. Though, if you’re smoking enough to be high all day, then you have a problem.
And you say that marijuana kills relationships?
Ever heard of an MMO or another addictive video game? Even alcohol can kill relationships.
I agree that it would most likely make your reaction time higher, but with any drug there are side effects.
RUSSIAN ROULETTE!!! Drugs of any kind are nothing more than just a game of RR. I was stupid as a young person and smoked pot, did acid, a few pills and probably a few things I can’t even remember. I am now 46 and suffering each day. I have stage 4 lung cancer and can only be led to believe it was from my smoking history even though I had quit in 1988. Not being able to breath comfortably as if gasping for a breath and coughing chronically most waking hours is/was not worth those so called HIGH times. Take it from me, if you have any desire to live a long, productive and happy life, put aside ALL FOOLISHNESS NOW while you still have time. I will be taking my LAST BREATH any day now and remember I am ONLY 46!!!
I don’t beleive a single word
where the proven facts that marijuana kills?
this is a classic case of refer madness
Talk about medical facts, this is made up!
People who smoke under their own pretences are prohibtions to the future. Those who fight us, who smoke are the ones continueing the war against drugs. putting thousands of people in jail, promoting gang violence and going against the law.
LOL ok 18yrs and still alive.I am a heavy pot smoker and I don`t drink Alcohol.I use no other drugs.I have a good job which I am sober at.To make claims that it kills you well lets see.You can`t overdose on pot(proven by studies).To be addictive,well if you enjoy something and do it on a reg basis I guess you can sy it is addictive.Will it lead to different drugs,well most start with cigarettes and Alcohol.So alot of people have tried it,well ya and why did they stop cause of harsh laws.I know some big wigs in the big business and some in politics that use pot.Why don`t we have a choice to use it,,no Government control.Alcohol related death are by far worst than pot,if not mistaken pot is so low no one counts it.Some have their views on pot and thats there right.I have my views on Alcohol.To compare them,ther is no comparison.How much money is spent on Alcohol related issues and events?I aggree somethings they mention in some studies,but overall pot is less harmful than anything legal on the market today.I also can say it may not be good for you to smoke all the time not sure but iI rather smoke it than breath the toxic fumes spewing out of cars and businesses.Pot could make alot of new jobs and money on taxes.Bring in new programs to benifit the world.
Hi all,
I personally think pot should be decriminalized, but stay illegal. Not because of it’s perceived harmfulness, but because right now it’s the people’s drug. People breed it, people grow it, and shady people sell it. Once it becomes legal, the corporations are going to get their hands on it and we’ll have another “BIG” industry that only causes harm.
Just my 2 cents
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this is rubbish it doesnt do nothing bad to you even when you drive it makes you feel more focused so you have less chance of crashing unless you cant handle ya smoke
hi everyone…my husband just got caught for using this…i am totally lost…for the last 10years of marriage, i do not even know that he is taking it…singapore is taking very seriously about this..he will be sentence at least a year…if some of u guys say it is not harmful Y do we have to pay for the heavy penalty…now my 1 year old son will have to wait for another dragging at least 1 year to be hold & hug by his father…
THIS IS A JOKE. there are no hard facts. there is only an old mans opinion. There is no proof. Yes the only thing is that some people who do marijuana go on to harder drugs. WHY?! because it is THEIR CHOICE TOO. Marijuana does not crawl into your brain and say. HEY OVERDOSE ON HERION TODAY. you do. Marijuana is the most harmless drug. It is a Medical drug used for back aches, eye problems, stress, and even Seizures. I know a person who has had over 50 seizures a year. Once he was put under medical marijuana the number got all the way down to 1, 1 sierzure a year. It didnt cure it, but it sure as hell helped. And hey, it is the most nautural thing out there. You are smoking a plant. Not something altered by chemicals. But a plant. Yes the ones that grow from the ground. The ones that your mommy likes to flower. So to be honest. I smoke weed, sometimes. Not all the time, but i have a very stronge opinion about it when people say that it is BAD for you. Never in the worlds history has there been a recording that a PERSON HAS DIED FROM WEED, OVERDOSED ON WEED, GONE CRAZY FROM WEED, OR ANYTHING ELSE, U CANT EVEN GET CANCER FROM IT. Check the real statistics like from UCLA who spent 6 million dollars researching this issue. and in the end came out with a 1 digit number. 0
Jeff has the right attitude. 500 people a week die from alcohol related car accidents. Studies show that 38,000 people a year are in marijuana related car accidents, however 88% of those accidents were in parking lots and under 10mph. I think we need to concentrate on things that actually cause traffic fatalities.
Allow me to be another person that bashes this article for the BS story that it is. Overdose from weed, give me a break, you’ll probably have to smoke like 10 grams till that happens. Although after 2 grams you can barely roll another joint…you’re probably already sleeping.
It’s like saying, yeah, water can kill you too, if you drink 10 times the regular dosage.
Suicides and accidental deaths happen all the time, and not necessarily because people are under the influence. It can happen because you are tired just as much as because you didn’t buy a rug for your bathroom floor, slipped, hit your head, and then blood started flowing out of a main artery till somebody found you dead the next day.
I would like to tell “Dan” that marijuana CAN and Does kill. Just like cigarettes, putting ANY type of smoke into your body is not a smart thing to do. It is not a healthy thing to do. And isn’t it funny the only advocates of marijuana use/abuse are those who are already abusing it? Poison Ivy is a natural substance too. Try smoking that. The argument that it grows naturally make it “OK” is just ludicrous. But then, that is in line with the thoughts of those who wish to abuse it, isn’t it?
I can agree with some of the things you say but you also have to remember that many of these young kids that you say ae cutters and what not don’t do that because of weed they do it because many of them have hard lives and that just helps take ther minds off the things going on much like sokeing weed does. and no weed has never killed anyone directly and yes i believe that they have caused there fair share of accodents but look at it this way. why would you not be more worried about young people drinking and driving over that. i would trust myself in the car with on of my friends high as can be over one that has drank. shure it may impare ones jujment to a degree but i have never seen my friends speed because of weed they slow down. i have never seen them do something recluss as much so if they would have been drunk. Also to that note your comment on heroin overdoses has nothing to do with that. that is something completely diffrent and if your so worried about that why not write about it. My name is David Flowers 19 from Pa and i don’t smoke anything i dont do any drugs of any kind and nor do i drink so i am not defending the people that do i am just saying that from experience with my friends that do weed is not as bad as you make it out to be so stick to alchol, tobacco, and other illegal drugs because unless the pot is laced with something and people are being smart about it then just let them be.
I want to address several points that others have made over the ‘kill’ing controversy of weed. First. marijuana in and of itself is not going to directly lead to death. There is no overdose potential. Independent research does indicates some long term health consequences such as lung problms. I think the correlation between smoking weed and death is a result of the perceptual distortions, (vision, sound etc.) and the slower reaction times of those who smoke. If someone smokes a blunt and then gets beheind the wheel of a car the risk is elevated for an accident. Pilots, surgeons, and world class sprinters do not smoke pot as a performance enhancer. Given a choice, and all other factors even, I would pick a sober, non-high pilot or surgeon versus one that was stoned.
For those who argue that pot does not create problems and then points to a person who actually gets better grades, or has been able to work, as evidence that pot is harmless, I challenge your assumptions and logic. My thinking is that if their performance maintains or is enhanced it is attributable to the sedating properties of pot, i.e. they have undiagnosed and untreated anxiety or ADD issues and that pot is in fact a form of self medication.
And to that, the pro-marijuana advocates will say, “see, it is the big pharmacuetical companies that will benefit, here’s a natural susbtance that works.” Ok. But unless one grows it themselves, the quality and purity of it are unknown. then there is the arguement of the negative side effects from using pot versus a prescribed medicaiton. I guess it’s a judegement call and choice of what negative side effects one is willing to risk, those from smoking pot and those from medication. The arguements can go on and on.
The bottom line is pot is not inherently evil, addicting, or bad. Just like alcohol is not. They both can be used in moderation and enjoyed. They can also be abused and create problems in one’s life, have a a negative impact on family, friends, and co-workers, and result in legal problems. If the pro-use advocates can honestly say they smoke in moderation, and that family or close friends are not bothered by their use of pot, nor have they been emtionally or physically harmed by their use, if they don’t’ drive when high, or if they are working (in or outside the home) and being responsible, then I agree it’s not a problem. If the honest answer to any of the above is yes, then it is a problem, they are addicted, or they are at risk of killing themselves or someone else.
First of all let me begin by praising the wonderful piece of writing done by Myles. It truly was a masterful tear-down of an ignorant (I say ignorant and not stupid because you obviously have intelligence, you just don’t apply it properly.)Lady named Donna.
Both of my parents are alcoholics, my chance of becoming one is 20 times greater because of it. I smoke pot every single day, all day, and have done so for the past 7 years. I am 24 and am currently working on my second degree. I have a 4.0 in computer science and plan on going to one of the most prestigious schools in the country next year to get my masters. I work at a public library as the Head Librarian and carry on intellectual conversations with patrons all while under the influence of cannabis. I also sleep like a baby EVERY single night, have regular digestion, no anxiety (I previously had been diagnosed with panic attacks brought on by drinking too much alcohol; I have not drank a drop of alcohol in over 4 years.)and have a way to completely relieve all of my stress.
Now I will give you this as the only downside that I have found over my years, and that is this. Cannabis does affect your short-term memory; however, it is more like a filter for useless information. Do I need to know how I ate my waffles this morning, or how much change I have in my pocket? In fact, one study that I was reading (had nothing to do with cannabis) said that middle aged people are having trouble with concentration and stress as they have experienced too many years of short-term memory abuse, i.e. remembering every little thing ALL the time…
Finally, in a country where the individual is supposed to be free and have the right to pursue life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. How do you as a person think that you have the right to stop me from mine? My rights stop where yours begin, so shouldn’t it be the same for you?
Open your eyes and see the truth, the revolution is coming.
Thomas J. Paine
PS GO READ THE REVOLUTION BY CONGRESSMAN RON PAUL!!
I am doing an essay on Marijuana for my schools government class, and though I respect your opinion, I don’t see any proof. I’m sorry but I have done hours of research and not once have I found an article against marijuana with any direct evidence, statistics, or credible sources to support their clams. unless i am convinced otherwise I don’t see any reason why this substance shouldn’t be legal. While Alcohol is legal, marijuana is not. This makes no sense to me at all.
Wow…This article is funny to me. I have smoked since I was 13 and I have no mental or physical disabilities as you say happens because we have more potent weed these days…I am just fine and so is everyone else I know that smokes, and trust me, we have smokes some good S#it. Do you know how many very successful people have or still do smoke weed? ALOT. Marijuana helps with many things and it makes you feel good…WHO has commited suicide due to smokin a joint? No one, if anything, they were thinking about commiting suicide, sat down smoked a blunt, and chilled the hell out. Notice this article keeps saying that all these accidents have happened due to being stoned but not once does it state any of them! Cause there were none. My mother has smoked my whole life and worked 3 jobs, came home made dinner, cleaned, and made sure we were bathed…isn’t marijuana supposed to make you lazy??? Guess not. And as for it being a gateway drug. I have never wanted to try any other drug..those are the drugs that people need to focus on. The truth is people are going to do what they are interested in, they don’t hit a joint and think hmmm, I wonder what Crack is like. Come on people. If marijuana is so damn dangerous then quit allowing people who have cancer to smoke it, aren’t you worried about what accidents they might have? The way this article tells it, I’m suprised we haven’t heard anything on the news about a woman with cancer that got high one day and decided to kill her family! There are actually people doing that and not because they are high…BUT, they should have been. This government makes no sense at all. Alcohol is a big problem, my grandfather was an alcoholic and abused my nana and their kids, if he would have just been a potthead instead I bet they would have had it easier…but no, it’s not legal and liquor is!? Cigarettes are killing people everyday. I smoke them and I wish they weren’t legal because then I probably would have never started. Plus if you are a heavy cigarette smoker and weed smoker, I guarentee it would be easier for you to quit smoking pot before you would dare give up a cigarette. MARIJUANA is HARMLESS you IDIOTS!!!!!!!!!!! Maybe you should try actually smoking it that way you could have some truth in your statements about it. Like anyone cares what you think. That is like reading a pregnancy book written by a man, please….you don’t know shit but what you here and assume so stop writing these pathetic articles about god’s greatest and most magical plant. What do you think ol’ moses and noah did way back in b.c. for headaches? There was no aspirin (which also kills people) all they had was cannibis. So they could break them off a piece and eat it instead of harming their bodies with smoke. Bet you they felt better afterwards. (that is my theory anyways)
DON’T DO DRUGS, SMOKE WEED!
I smoke weed every day for the past 5 years and i have done research and found tons of fact sheets with actual proof that marijuana is harmless and in fact beneficial. nothing with any real proof of harm from marijuana. its alcohol we need to ilegalize for the simple fact that you can die from just simply drinking too much even if u dont do anything like drive or start conflict with anyone you can still die where as weed is impossible to overdose on and die you can puke at most. dont need any scientist to tell us that, and the fact that nothing has happend about this for so long is rediculous. Peace
Hey maybe you should do at least a small amount of research before you preach this crap! You are misleading people and you need to rethink your advice! Smoking can be beneficial for so many people and you are ruining that with your propaganda!
the guy under me has no clue about Marijuana, yes i do smoke it but just beacuse you have not experienced and accident doesnt mean that it never happens. i believe that this article was ver well written and it had alot of facts.
Donna, Post 25
I’m a pre med student at UWO (university of western ontario) and excuse my language but Donna (post 25) is a completely moron. I smoked (yes , past tense) and I still believe in it firmly. We are even testing therapeutic uses for this “drug”. So my suggestion is to call social servces and get your son put in a home far away from yourself, cause clearly you have some sort of mental psychosis.
-Sean
This comment needs to be erased right away…because it’s giving sooo wrong picture aboute marijuana to people who don’t know much about it. This “Hamish Turner” is pay by the goverment to say this, or by the drug dealers(because this is going to their favor: more prohibition-price goes up), or by someone else I don’t know!!! This is so wrong. Marijuana doesn’t cause any type of accidents unlike alcohol..I know this from some “normal” studies as from my personal expirience…And yes I am 100% sure about what I’m talking…
marijuana does kill one of my friends died in a car accident last year because the driver who hit him was under the influence of marijuana
Obviously, a lot of you pot-smokers didn’t reread what you wrote in response to this article. No, I’m not agreeing with it, but I’m disagreeing not because I smoke (Because I don’t)but because it’s an irrational jump in logic.
When you get angry and respond with profanity instead of a rational argument, it makes pot- smokers in general look like idiots because of those who are representing them.
Perception is reality. If pot-smokers are percieved as idiots, where does that leave you?
Cannot be good for you. A lot of people seem to be in defensive mode about that, or denial. Oh well… that’s nothing new to the visitors of this site.
to everone who has defended dear ol’ mary jane, god bless.
every person who says it is bad or has done their “research” needs 2 look again
marijuana may have a chance 2 cause cancer faster than a cigg but the THC (the #### that gets u high) can and more than likely will kill those cells before the can mutate
i have only smoke 2 cigerattes in my life and i can tell u would rather beat myself with a hammer
Marijuana has its pros and cons but so does eating fried chicken and potato chips
my father is a chonic alcoholic and step-father is a chonic pothead
i perfer 2 be hangin with my step dad when either one is under the influence
P.S its only illegal because alot of rich tycoons and politians years ago feared the compatition
Love, Peace and Marijuana Grease
bull marijuana doesnt make you crazy or doesnt effect your health sure your short term memory get a little ruined DEPENDING on who you are as long as you stay on top of you stuff and dont let it be your number one in life marijuana is natural , good, and fun for recreational purposes. it makes you look at things in different ways that you would never think of sober. its makes you open minded.
peace, love, toke on!!!
This article is a bunch of bull…
Okay I am 23 years old and I currenty smoke “weed, piff, pot, or whatever u wanna call it” and I have been smoking for about 10 years…. Now, not all of my decisions were the best and most of that comes from being a teenager and wanting to do my own thing… HOWEVER, I have NEVER ONCE went to the hospital for “overdosing” on weed!!! All these people on here “hating” on weed are either OLD AS #### or just “hating”!!! Some people are HATERS as we all know… Just let them hate… I am almost done with college and I am currently on the DEAN’S LIST!!! I am finished with my work in advance and I am able to get the grades I WORK HARD for!!! Some people just want to sit on the couch and get high all day and do nothing… BUT guess what…. Thats what they were going to do with our without the weed… and some people get into car accidents while “high on weed”… BUT guess what they were just stupid BEFORE they got into that car… I have been into a car accident and I was smoking and guess what IT WASN’T MY FAULT!!! I had NO CONTROL OVER THAT ACCIDENT!!! And yes marijuana causes a low sperm count BUT WHO CARES!!! I mean unless your trying to get pregnant/have a baby (which a lot of people are NOT)!!!! and yes it does cause short term memory loss…. But its just like cigs… IF YOU SMOKE CIGS IT SAYS ON THE BOX “SMOKING CAUSES LUNG CANCER, HEART DISEASE ETC…” THERE ARE NOT ANY REPORTS OF “WEED DEATHS”… WHEN YOU SMOKE WEED YOU BECOME “HUNGRY, HAPPY, AND SLEEPY!!! AND NOT EXACTLY IN THAT ORDER” – KAT WILLIAMS…. But seriously some of these people that are bad mouthing weed are just stupid and need to smoke a blunt… I wish someone would just lock yall in a room and smoke a ounce real quick!!! UR STUPID!!! #### ALL THOSE OTHER PLANTS “DONNA” and you too “CATHY” ur just a ####!!!!
Donna you talk bad about people who admit they smoke weed and say they type like they smoke… HOW STUPID ARE YOU!!! Not everyone is typing literate… and more so many people type like they are sending a text message SOO keep up with the technology boo boo….
I will admit that I am Bi-Polar and I smoke weed on a daily basis not only because I like it but because it takes away my irritable feelings and my angry feelings that I have no control over!!!! I enjoy weed for my own reasons and obviously SO DO MANY OTHER PEOPLE!!!!! SO STOP HATING!!!!
to the people who have never smoked..
and your against it.
and the people who do smoke are in a cloud?
no.
not exactly.
why dont you try it then see what your outlook is.
marijuana doesnt kill people.
proven fact.
people’s actions do.
whether they’re under the influence or not.
i believe that this article is pretty false, personally i have done this drug and i have just currently wrote an essay on the plant (marijuana) the research ive done compared to this article is a thousand times different. I also have tons of friends who do it, and all the side effects that i see is them being completely burnt. But who ever wrote this obviously does not know what they are talking about. sorry.
This article is rubbish.
I just LOVE this one “It is an awful waste of young lives. People are trying the drug at a very young age. Many go on to harder drugs and I am dealing with more and more heroin overdoses.” Making a direct connection from cannabis to heroin? Lol. Are they for real here?
This post really does need to be brought down, or at least tell people that it is OPINION only! Since not one single scientific fact is used to back up this garbage.
Some people can’t chew gum and drive at the same time, so yeah, if these people get high and drive they’re most likely going to get into an accident. It’s the same as a driver who just drank a cup of coffee, is “jittery” and then gets into an accident. Is it the coffees fault or the drivers?
hi
Hey Jeff,
You might want to consider the REAL effects of the drugs. How do you spell alcohol again? Learn to spell and get off of dope. Read some real literature on how this stuff can effect you.
what a complete bunch of idiots. i especially liked the one that said “pot doesn’t kill people. peoples action do”. you’re right. but when somebody is behind the wheel of a car and they are fogged after smoking pot, they are a risk to everybody on the road.
and some of you morons argue that there is no scientific fact? did you actually read the article, or you wer too busy sparking up the bong to read the entire thing. i weep for the children many of you have.
The issue for many of us is that we voted for cannabis to be legal for medical use, and the feds say no still…. this issue is no different than the reasons we started this country with. Taxation without representation. There are people who have decided that the will of the people is not adult enough, smart enough or safe enough. (DEA says they don’t recognize “medical cannabis” and there is no such thing) This should alarm everyone more than any other issue.
We no longer have a republic in my world…. “stoned or not” This should scare the crap out of all of you. Freedom, yeah right…
Better stand up for yourselves while you can… It saddens me that there are so many people angry, pissed off and afraid while our rights are being taken from us. Families destroyed and busted apart when good people are railroaded for laws that were supposed to have been changed. What are we to do if we see an unfair law, we vote to change it, we win, and nothing happens? All I get is all these people putting me down, telling me I’m fogged and unable to see life in it’s true light. Cannabis has given me back my life. Of course I am sure someone here will debate my experience with me… It’s really simple… Before cannabis I was sick and bedridden… since, I have become functional again… I am not really interested in “studies” to prove this, I got my own proof… it works for me. (mind you, I am a retired Alcohol and Drug counselor who spent 14 years working with addictions)
To see the comments digress into personal attacks on our writing skills, scientific study wars, and assumptions that all medical cannabis users just wanna be high is just a distraction. Look at the reality. The majority has voted for a change… the feds will not honor it…. Our only chance now is to spend our time refuting articles like this with our comments… voting and winning doesn’t work…..
I am still young and i smoke. I play guitar and it helps me relax and then i can concentrate and it relaxes me. I can write songs while i am high. I hav been smoking for about 5 or 6 years. I get a’s and b’s in school and i have never had any accidents whil high. I think who ever wrote this i full of shtt. And i don’t think marijuana is addicting. if i wanted to i could stop right now. I can go to school high and be just fine and get good grades.
thats dumb yalls idiots mmy bro done it for 9 years it should be legalized it kills no people you should ban alcohol it is the number 2 killer in the usa get your #### straight
Marijuana Smoking Doesn’t Kill:
Illegal Herb Not Harmless, but Data Show No Link to Death
By Daniel J. DeNoon
WebMD Health NewsSept. 18, 2003 — Marijuana smoking isn’t harmless, but at least it won’t kill you.
It’s been feared that marijuana smoke, like tobacco smoke, causes cancer and heart disease. The evidence argues otherwise, writes Stephen Sidney, MD, associate director for research for Kaiser Permanente, Oakland, Calif., in the Sept 20 issue of The British Medical Journal.
“Although the use of [marijuana] is not harmless, the current knowledge base does not support the assertion that it has any notable adverse public health impact in relation to mortality,” Sidney concludes.
No Marijuana Deaths in 2 Large Studies
Sidney points to two large studies. The first is from (where else?) California. A large HMO looked at 65,177 men and women age 15-49. Over 10 years, marijuana users died no sooner than nonusers.
The second study looked at 45,450 Swedish army conscripts. They were 18-20 years old when asked about marijuana use. Fifteen years later, the marijuana users were just as likely to remain alive as nonusers.
And since marijuana smoking can’t kill outright — there’s no such thing as a fatal marijuana overdose — short-term use isn’t deadly. Long-term use can’t be good for you. But Sidney notes that most marijuana smokers don’t become long-term users.
One worry about marijuana smoke is that it is inhaled, and held, deep in the lungs. But the typical user smokes only one marijuana cigarette — or less — a day. Tobacco users often smoke 20 or more cigarettes daily. Moreover, tobacco contains nicotine, a highly addictive substance. Marijuana, Sidney concludes, is less likely to harm than tobacco.
A 2001 study suggested that marijuana smoking increases the risk of heart attack in the hour immediately after smoking. But this seems to be the case in no more than one-fifth of 1% of heart attacks — a very rare risk indeed.
More Marijuana Deaths in the Future?
Marijuana users shouldn’t cancel their life insurance policies just yet. Sidney warns that longer-term data may indeed show that marijuana smoking eventually raises the risk of premature death.
And if marijuana is legalized, long-term use may become more common. If this is the case, there certainly will be more long-term effects of marijuana use.
SOURCE: Sidney, S. The British Medical Journal, Sept. 20, 2003; vol 327: pp 635-636.
© 2003 WebMD, Inc. All rights reserved.
CANT ARGUE WITH WEBMD..i think this justifies everyones opinion!
I do believe that you are full of it. I have been doing marijuana since i was 12 years old and not once have i gotton in trouble because of marijuana. marijuana is not the lead to hard drugs it is the influence of other people and society that leads to hard drugs. my hard dryg addiction was due to my egg donor and i now have disowned her for it. but my marijuana habit not only helped with my physical pain but it also helped me in a mental asp[ect when i was mourning the loss of my daughter who died at almost a year old. if i had not started using marijuana again i would have killed myself because i could not deal with her death. by the way she died of SIDS not my drug habit.
I just felt like saying one thing to this statement. It is an obvious basis of your person opinion. There have been studies saying that marijuana has never been directly linked to death. Alcohol has a higher death rate than any other drug in the national population and will never be persecuted nearly as harshly as “cannibis” has. People make ignorant choices, they do stupid and sometimes bizzare things for no reason. We have legalized drugs that do more than just bring up questions. If you weren’t taught by society that all things deemed sinister by the government were cleary and irrefutably immoral do you trust that you have enough information do actually put a death label on this natural life inhancer? Before or if you respond at all, I want to nip this topic at the bud. I know that the words life inhancer could make the drug sound like a dependence but I assure you that is not what the term was coined for. Taken in moderation everything can be enjoyable. Granted, there are exceptions in the synthetic drug ring, most things natural found and grown are virtually harmless. You should never give your life away for anything. Not drugs, friends, relationships, work, anything. It is very improper to spit in life’s face. I want you to think of a situation. Imagine that your wife/husband/best-friend who means the world to you was going to be shot. Pretend for a moment that you have to make a choice. A choice between life or death. It is similar to the choice people make when they smoke cigarettes, drink alcohol, eat fast food, drive, sleep, swim, rock climb, jump out of airplanes, this list continues. You know it goes on forever. Would you take the bullet? Unless you say no, you couldn’t possibly be able to argue with my next conclusion. Grandeur overshadows the ignorance of most of the things human beings take part of. Why did you even waste your time with marijuana? Do you know how many children starve to death each year, or how many people are lost to stray bullets? More people die in plane crashes. Something to directly rebut your entire statement. One, you were not there that night, you cannot prove whether it was alcohol or ganja. Two, find me a stoned kid/adult who even thinks they can drive. Follow them around, do some physical tests, don’t pop off overly opinionated statements. Three, you can’t say anything until you smoke and drop dead. You cannot physically overdose on marijuana. It is impossible. You would sooner die from asphyxiation from lack of oxygen that have the active chemical kill you. THC.
Sure marijuana is a lot safer than those other drugs, but it is still dangerous, Of course it prevents lung cancer, and helps people who suffer from pain etc, but it also increases you heart rate and blood pressure meaning you are 5 times more likely to have a heart attack while high, thus people with heart disease should not smoke marijuana, it also reduce airflow to your cells making it hard to breathe and circulate bloodflow, making it very easy for you to have a stroke depending on how much you smoke, which for some people can be as low as 3 puffs, and don’t forget about just being High in general, say you smoke a bunch and get in a car, I know for a fact I couldent drive stoned out of my mind, I would crash into someone, not to mention every time me and my friend are driving high, we pass red lights and swirve without knowing it, you can do a lot of stupid #### being high as #### and it can risk you your life.
“The reefer is the killer. It will steal your children and make your #### fall off of your body and dogs will hunt you down and eat the remains.” Oh my god this is the biggest load of #### I have ever heard in my life. What a pathetic attempt by the right wingers to keep people away from the only thing that actually opens up people’s minds to the possibilities that exist other than what they have been told to believe. Reminds me of those completely idiotic ads from the 30’s. Once again folks don’t listen to this complete #### it is a million times better then the #### doctocs perscribe to you that will and does kill you.
To petra as a smoker for 20 years I don’t understand how you can say you were missing out on something. I did not start smoking until I was out of high school and I have never in my life felt I contribute more to the world then I do when I smoke weed. I have more ideas and I am more aware of what is going on then when I do not smoke, as well as more motivated to do more. I am currently working on my bachelors degree and feel that if more people smoked weed the world would be a much happier place. As for your friends, did you ever stop to think that accidents do happen even to sober people. This could have been something that would have happened regardless if your friends were sober or high. As for Chad I understand where you think the connection between smoking weed and your learning problems come from, however people do have learning disabilities that have absolutely nothing to do with weed. I have known people that have smoked for many years and there parents smoked all through their childhoods, and they are among the smartest and most creative people I have ever met. So not to make light of your disability, I do feel it is possible that this problem could have been an issue regardless of your smoking weed in the short amount of time you did. In closing I would like to say about the completely ridiculous idea the weed is the gateway drug, that every person I have ever met that did much harder drugs started with alcohol or cigerettes. I have smoked weed for many years now and have NEVER, I repeat Never gone on to harder drugs or had any sort of accident including cutting my finger. Marijuana makes people more aware of their surroundings and what could go wrong. It is not in anyway shape or form the same as Alcohol that does impair your drinking and your thinking skills. I have never met anyone or even heard of any teenage girls smoking weed to where they passed out and were taken advantage of. I guess that is why guys don’t use weed to take advantage of girls huh. Smoke on fellow potheads we know the truth and the government is just trying to keep us from free thought. Never back down.
Sorry Ember but there is no such thing as a reputable government agancy and any information they supply means absolutley nothing to me. Just like area 51 does not exist and there are no camps of torture. I, and many people on this site use common sense and don’t believe everything we are force fed from the government. Use a real source that isn’t paid by the people that are paid by the pharmicutical companies to say anything other than the truth.
Oh my god weed 101 you are sofa king retarded. If your aren’t smart enough to drive in the first place properly then you shouldn’t be smoking and driving dumb*ss. What the hell are you and your friend doing that you are swerving in the first place. If you pay attention #### like that doesn’t happen and you are not more likely to die from a heart attack unless you have heart problems. It is not different from running or having sex and getting your heart rate up. It is actually good to get your heart rate up. So what you are telling me is that you are five times more likely to die from a heart attack from smoking weed but your chances of dying from a heart attack after a ginormous monster energy drink is nill huh. Damn you are smart you need to toke more to understand what the hell you are talking about because I think you are the only one. Not to mention the stroke diagnosis you have made gee you think the stress people suffer from just in everyday life is better then being relaxed and happy. My god I know you don’t smoke because everything you posted is a giant load of ####.
I love how people will say because it is a plant it is ok… umm the fn xmas poinsettas are posionous! Ofcourse nothing but a buncha pot heads are responding here..to defend your weed. I was a pothead too once.. and I can admit its stupid.. and blablabla
This is just another example of a wrongly interpreted fact. Most of drug – related accidents are caused by “hard” drugs like heroine and cocaine – the fact that most of these people smoked pot is true. But tell me – have you ever known an addict who would NOT smoke hemp? The gateway drug theory is #### as well as all of this article.
Ok ok, there are no reported deaths directly from weed. Schizophrenia is heavily linked to marijuana use, as is a bunch of other diseases. A life with schizophrenia ain’t living, sorry to say. Plus it’s still smoking, so add cancer to that list. You can’t possibly think it’s good for you. Like, you actually can’t. So in 40 years when a bunch of smokers of ANY description are in hospital with emphysema, sucking up resources, we’re meant to make it legal? We get that smoking and alcohol are drugs, and it’s true that the government are making a killing off it but that isn’t an excuse to legalise pot. To the pot users saying “I’ve done pot for 7 years and I’m totally normal and healthy!” That’s like someone saying “I drive drunk all the time and haven’t had an accident! It must be ok then.”
I don’t care if people do use pot, I don’t mean to come across as some tyrant but to hear people say that it’s all good and completely harmless is incorrect. Use it if you want, but just because marijuana doesn’t cause death like ‘that’ doesn’t mean there are a whole lot of other potential side-effects.
A documentary that every marijuana lover should watch. THE UNION: “The Business Behind Getting High”. The truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth is explained in that documentary. SO #### everybody against marijuana!!!
what the hell is wrong with this #### govt man? every comment left for this article people are against what is being said so why do ppl think that pot is so damn bad. alcohol is still legal when it kills more ppl every damn day than pot has is history of mankind. the govt needs to stop being so damn corrupt and stop lying about #### man. ppl are gonna do what they want to do whether you like the #### or not. i’ve smoked for like 6 years now and i’m still alive and kickin. #### i’m healthy as ever. but i dont smoke cigarettes either so #### what the govt says about marijuana. and #### anybody who says its bad. ima smoke weed feel high like its legit. everyone smokes pot. i smoke to calm my nerves so if anybody tries sayin that weed makes you wanna do crazy #### then you’re all #### up cause the craziest thing i would do after i smoke is lay on the couch and eat food and watch tv and drink some kool-aid. #### the govt
You know what. I agree with your article. My dad was killed in November by a woman who was tokin it up and driving. I smoke weed myself. But if your gonna do it. Chill out before you do something. And DONT DRIVE IF YOUR EVEN A LIL HIGH!!!
This article is crap!!! I am a 54 year old woman who has smoked marijuana most of my life and have never been in any accidents. I raised 8 children and they are good as well…..
Ummm how many of you people that smoke weed amount to anything do yall have jobs or are yall just trailer park trash??Seriously yall are all retarded if you don’t think it has an effect on you. My brother died 3 days ago because he got high with all of his friends and then they went swimming he drowned because he didn’t know how to swim and his friends didn’t know what was going on so they couldn’t call 911 or help him. So if your seriously going to sit there and tell me it can’t kill you then you’re a liar and don’t know what you talking about. Weed kills. Weed killed my 16 year old brother and he will never come back all because he wanted to get high.
I came across this page today because I wanted to look up a story i found on the news.. the story was on for a brief 3 min. but it stated that a kid died from smoking marijuana.
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I find that a horrible lie.. marijuana does not kill people.. if you are too blazed to get behind the wheel then dont.. no one makes fun of you for it.. no ones going to pressure you to do it. its a simple fact.. some people drive perfectly .. some dont.. and if you cant.. then dont….
I think its really funny when i hear gov. officials talking about pot. They try and demoralize it saying its a gateway drug,.. or that it harms more than anything else.. and all the rest of you idiots that believe this retarded article.. meanwhile all of you still have your legal tobacco and alcohol.. do you know how many kids die from car accidents because of alcohol? or how many young kids suffer because you allowed cigarettes to make there way into this world?.. the destruction of those two DRUGS.. and yes
they are drugs.. they fit the classification..
has a greater impact on the death in this country than pot ever will…
the only reason people die from marijuana is maybe they cant drive while stoned and they do .. and crash.. but that is their own fault.. and to all of u morons who have never smoked a day in your life.. the car does not fog up where you cant see.. you cant even see smoke in a car in the daylight.. go. check it out. odds are u wont find any kids smoking because you wont be able to see it. I am very sick of you people.. being controlled and manipulated by people who swear they can end all the problems of this world.. when they in fact.. are the ones who created them….. this worlds problems cannot be solved by the people who created them.. you’d do best to remember that.
Marijuana.. is grown naturally on this beautiful earth.. it is possibly the only natural drug out there.. but then .. theres a problem all in itself.. it shouldnt be called a drug.. labeling things is not the right thing to do.. it is a beautiful plant that lives among us in all of nature..
The last thing i am going to say is that.. i find it comical that U.S citizens attack this plant like it is the devil.. when they usually go home and drink or some cigarettes.. you allow alcohol.. which destroys brain cells in the blink of an eye enter your body.. you feel better about it because everyone does it .. because it is taxed.. because it is legal.. same thing with cigarettes.. which is pretty much like committing suicide.. if any of you people smoke cigarettes.. dont even try and leave a comment on this .. you are FUCKING IDIOTS..
besides this “drug war” ####.. all of you should worry about the planet.. if this world stays as it is .. we will inevitably destroy ourselves.. and those responsible will be the people who started this charade.. and the people who were too oblivious to see that..
we are nature.. nature is us.. and if we can not find a balance.. it will destroy all life…
marijuana is part of nature. nature is beautiful.. Marijuana is beautiful.
oh.. and to clear something up.. i believe the evidence most of you put up here as to why people die from marijuana and why it kills is car crashes… i feel very sorry for the people who have lost their lives in any car crash.. but the fact is.. marijuana did not kill them.. its peoples actions and what they choose to do at that moment in time.. that does.. I have seen people talk on the cell.. eat FOOD.. READ .. spill coffee.. and they manage to crash all the time.. is it their fault?????? ..
or the what they were doing…
im sure most of you would answer it was their fault… which is funny..
so now you have people hitting and killing people while on marijuana… is it their fault??… YES… their fault alone… not the plants.. they choose to act and get in a car.. and drive.. IT WAS THEIR FAULT… stop labeling this plant.. just STOP
Honestly this is ####! Marijuana does not kill but does have the ability to impaire which is obvious. It effects everyone differently just like everything else in life, so yes you can develop an illness that is predisposed by genetics, however that is likely with anything, a tramatic experience, not being nutured or socialized. What about the beneifits to marijuana??? Lets talk about how it helped Bob Marley survive for two years after he was diagnosed and given 6 mnths to live. How about how it helps when feeling nauseas or it’s good when an appetite has been lost for a long time. What about all the good it’s doing for patient suffers of MS?? I am a psychology student with a 4.0 GPA, I smoke marijuana and I am doing well in life, I have studied both the beneifits and implications of it and according to my research alcohol consumption does more harm then marijuana. According to psychology it’s a good way of studying when smoking small amounts… I can say it’s helping me in graduate school!
can u tell me how did they die or give some kind of examples stating that marijuana was the cause of death until then i will not beleice nothing u say because its ur word not facts
i meant to say beleive
I am so sick of you rich pencil pushing good for nothing jackass’s are saying. You are ALL wrong that “pot” is a gateway drug. You are ALL wrong when you say it causes violence in people when smoking it. And for ALL you christian’s out there. In the bible it states that god created everything in this world. And fruit and flower bearing plant could “should” be used. EVERY PLANT. As for that endless list of plants that can kill you if you ingest them. We still use those plants in other ways. Stop trying to convince people you are right. You are completely wrong.
If you look at every corpse that ever lay dead from this day on. You will NEVER EVER find that “pot” caused the death.
Let me ask you a question…..Take a chain smoker….ciggerettes. Some people can smoke up to but not limited to three packs a day. Because it “calms” them.
You only need to smoke a couple puffs of maryjuana and you are “high” for an hour or more depending on the potency of that kind of “pot.” Pot is not addictive. I can get high every single day. And then stop and not smoke for months.
Maryjuana is not harmfull at all. That is until it comes to the drug deal’s that go wrong. Or the families that are at home waiting for there loved ones to get out of jail because of having it on them. It’s not the drug that is dangerous it is the lack of you same pencil pushing pricks to realize it. Stop acting like you actualy know something. YOU HAVE NOTHING! I want actual unpaid scientific proof that drugs have killed a man/or a woman. And not because a stupid would be serial killer got pissed off for a totaly different reason other than being on the drug and killed someone that could have provoked it. Dont give me articles written by government officials that are against it. THEY ARE ALL AGAINST IT BECAUSE IT IS THERE JOB TO BE. Im sick and tired of all of you trying to act like you know something. Get a clue.
Everyone that is for “pot.” We might not see it in our lifetime but maryjauna WILL one day be legal.
Legalizing this wonderfull plant could bring alot of good to our needy nation. It would create more jobs thus create more spending. It would be taxed thus potentialy getting us out of this economic slump…..crisis. Drug dealing would slow down alot, even though there are alot more drugs out there. “pot” is THE leading drug being bought off the streets. Make it legal and we wont have that problem.
Before I give myself a headache I just gotta say. There is a petition going around that all of you should sign. Google it. Type MAKE MARIJAUNA LEGAL and you will find it. Thanks for reading.
p.s, you pecil pushing pricks. I think every single one you have smoked it. And I hope your kids do. And Your grandchildren. And so on. I would even go as far I hope one of your kids wind up a dealer. That would shut your ass up. GROW UP
Hahah I think this is all ####. It has never killed anyone ever. You cannot EVER overdose on marijuana. Hahaha That is the stupidest thing I’ve heard all day.
Jeez, all you guys are retarded. Stop embarrassing yourselves.
This articles dumb not a single marijuana death has ever occured anywhere in the world and sure if you smoke it and do something tha
http://www.a1b2c3.com/drugs/gen008.htm
Deaths in the United States in a typical year are as follows:
* Tobacco kills about 400,000
* Alcohol kills about 80,000
* Workplace accidents kill 60,000
* Automobiles kill 40,000
* Cocaine kills about 2,500
* Heroin kills about 2,000
* Aspirin kills about 2,000
* Marijuana kills 0
If you wanna make a drug illegal make alcohol and tobacco. Although it is a fact that marijuana does have more carcinogens in it then tobacco does, it is also important to mention that a pothead (could be mentally but not physically addicted) smoked a lets say 3 to 5 joints a day. While a person who is addicted to cigarettes smokes a pack or more a day and is extremely physically addicted.
Marijuana damages your lungs if you smoke it (you can also eat it) but alcohol destroys the hell out of your liver. Not to mention the predicted overdose level on cannabis, is about 14,000 times the amount needed to become high, while the overdose on alcohol is around 4 to 5 times the legally drunk limit. And you really can’t use a lack of spelling or grammar as an argument saying potheads are stupid. Your on the internet and I would like to point out to everyone that almost every person, smoker or not, has a grammatical or spelling error somewhere in their post.
This is ridiculous. The only thing used to support his argument is his “long experience” which conclusion is contrary to almost all serious studies ever conducted.
Then he goes: “Many go on to harder drugs and I am dealing with more and more heroin overdoses”. The only connection between marijuana and heroin is caused by prohibition that forces pot users to buy it from drug dealers.
At least in the USA, prohibition is very profitable to a lot of people: the DEA don’t want it’s budget cut; the private prisons want more people in jail; the cops want the adrenalin of busting into houses with automatic weapons; the alcohol and tobacco industries don’t want concurrence. This interests result in a great political pressure against legalization, regardless the fact that prohibition does not work. This pressure is so huge that it is even reaching Canada, which I believed to be a decent place (see Marc Emery case).
And no. I don’t smoke pot. I just hate misinformation and stupidity.
We often hear how Pot is a gateway drug. What a load of crap!!! The first time I tried Pot I was Drunk! Alcohol is the biggest gateway drug in society and its legal!!!
My parents were alcoholics and would beat the crap out of each other on a regular basis when they were drunk. I wish they smoked pot instead, domestic violence would have never been a part of my life.
i think this is all lies.marijuana has SO MANY uses! i mean it does make you slow while your high, but its only temporary. when it becomes legal, its going to help the economy sooooooooo much.tabacco has like 900 chemicals in it and marijuana has about 300. alcohol is legal and it kills millions all the time. prescription meds,meth coccain,ect- millions of deaths.marijuana-ZERO deaths.i mean people probly get shot or some stupid #### like that over pot, but thats only because they have no clue what your doing or who your messing with.if it becomes legal, getting shot or ripped or something of that nature will be elliminated cus youll have to go to a shop to purchase it. the clerk isnt going to shot you.you should know not to mess around with sketchy people like that to begin with.you could get shot just by looking at someone wrong,IT HAPPENS.people are just screwed up.you dont buy it just from anyone. and its not addicting, you can get a phycological dependency on it, buut you can also get that with eating food! if pot is bad because of that im just going to starve myself!pot is not bad, if youve never had long experiences with it, dont say ####. and if you have had bad experiences with it, its your own fault,unless your allergic or something, dont put yourself in that kind of position to begin with.pot is not a gateway drug neither,i tried hydrocodons when i was drunk once and i never did it again, and i havent drank alcohol in a few years,dont smoke cigs neither.tabacco and alcohol are the substances they need to be controlling
you guys who beg to differ, suck it. do a little more research.because you dont know what the hell your talking about
this information is bull s***t get your info straight before you start saying marijuana kills. it does not kill as you can see by the chart below.
Annual Causes of Death in the United States
Tobacco 435,000
Poor Diet and Physical Inactivity 365,000
Alcohol 85,000
Microbial Agents 75,000
Toxic Agents 55,000
Motor Vehicle Crashes 26,347
Adverse Reactions to Prescription Drugs 32,000
Suicide 30,622
Incidents Involving Firearms 29,000
Homicide 20,308
Sexual Behaviors 20,000
All Illicit Drug Use, Direct and Indirect 17,000
Non-Steroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drugs Such As Aspirin 7,600
Marijuana 0
and its a wonder why its not legal.
ok Steven Hartman shut the #### up please you just made yourself sound so #### dumb! trying to bring up the bible seriously #### go read one cuz no where in the #### bible does it say n e thing about using up all the earths resources! if we were supposed to use up all the plants and #### wed be dead because most of them are poisonous #### and as for all you other retards who keep posting that survey about the death tolls
get a #### clue please those are over doses they are talkn about, n although this article above was wrong the facts are still real people who are high do die from car accidents!
and who gives a #### if you drive high! wow do you want a #### cracker or sumtn you just getting lucky i hope next time your driving high you run a red light n get T-boned by a #### diesel. I swear no1 cares if you never get in a wreck while high cuz people around the world do notice how theres almost 16 billion people in the world and only 10 of you can drive high! 0 god people are so ignorant. you can tell that your a pot head if you try saying theres nothing bad about weed.
plus! the whole gateway drug thing, is real idk how many comments i read by #### who said its people who choose to do different drugs… UH duh ####! thats what the #### every article says they act like their saying sumtn smart. no no no see when they say weed is a gateway drug its b cuz its the drug most people start out with and depending on the person and how high they wanna get, choose to do other drugs. stop being so damn high n read more closely.
listen bottom line is there is no drug out there that is good for you period.
Well if you say these people have died form it then you should by all means tell us who have died. I have never even heard of people getting sick form smoking marijuana. How can you put this info on the web and not be able to give real facts. NO ONE has ever died from smoking marijana. Look it up
This is bull donk! More and more people are killed by alcohol and man made drug overdoses. I have never heard of someone overdosing on marijuana. The effects have been enjoyed for more than 35 years. No, I am not dead, no accident or suicide here. I think that all of those opposed to marijuana needs to have a joint and lighten up a bit.
I’ve been smoking for many years. I must say that this grass we speak of is all natural- 100%. I completed college programs at the top of my class while smoking. You who think it is wrong ought to spend your words on those who do man made drugs- which cause people to kill, steal, and do unheard of feats. As a man who loves god- i can say with full assurance that the only thing bad about the grass is, it has been made unlawful, because of the money interest of the powerful.
It doesnt kill and its not deadly ive dont my research and its perfectly fine they just dont want it to be legal because then we wouldnt need most the medicines it would work as a painkiller for any pain
This article is pure nonsense! My brother in law has been smoking weed since he was 14. He’s 25 now and doin just fine. I’ve smoked since I was 13. If there had been marijuana related overdoses, don’t you think we would have heard something by now? I would hope so! So don’t give me this crap!!!
Ok…everyone says marijuana is a gateway drug but let’s all look back to when we were kids and started experimenting. What was the first thing we experimented with? We snuck into our parents liquor cabinet, stole some and filled it back up with water to make it look like nothing is missing. Or got into the fridge and stole some of dads beer… So what is the true gateway drug? Or should I say gateway poison? Alcohol! This is the gateway drug and poison because that is exactly what it is…
Now I don’t smoke pot anymore but I did smoke all day everyday for over 2 years. I started after highschool and while I was smoking I became so motivated to do things. I started body building where I was working out 5 to 6 days a week for 2 hours a day and I did that for about 2 years. I also got a job being a sales rep for a cell phone company making good money. While I worked for that I company I was promoted to manager of that location after 4 months. This is irresponsible but I would actually go out on break or lunch and smoke a pipe or take a couple hits off a joint or blunt and come back to work and talk with customers and employees and would have no idea that I was blazed. I stopped smoking weed because I got in trouble with the law for having a 10 sack and a broken pipe. When I stopped I went from 190lbs and 10% body fat to 230lbs and 27% body fat. I realized that due to my addictive personality, I replaced smoking pot with food. I have adult ADD and i realize that I may have just used pot as a sort of self-medication, but it is what motivated me to get and do something which is why I am where I am now.
Another thing too…in highschool I was a teenage alcoholic. By the time I was 18 I gave myself 3 underage consumptions and 2 underage DUIs, I went to jail 3 different times due to this. When I was drunk I would want to take on the world and fight anyone who accidentally bumped into me. Then I quit Drinking and started smoking, it opened up my eyes. When your drink you think you are invincible and can take on the world, when you are high on pot you think twice about things and realize that your action maybe the wrong action, 95% of the time you choose to do the right thing.
So why isn’t marijuana legal? Because of the way society portrays it. There are millions of people in the US that are completely against it but go out and drink at a bar or restaurant with their family or friends, and they are the same people who get behind the wheel with their friends and family and wind up killing their family and friends.
So why is it illegal? Why is it that our government and our society support something that kills the people so close to them? Why?
I want someone against it to give me the last time that they heard or can find that someone died from a marijuana and marijuana only (no mix of other substance/alcohol) accident. And I want the name, place, date, and source that you got it from. Chances are you won’t find anything at all.
So why isn’t legal? There is no reason for it not to be.
All I can say is that we need to somehow join up together and make it so that marijuana is legal..there has to be a way!
So why isn’t legal?
Look at Americas horrible economy right now..let’s talk about a revenue generator for the us! It would lower the price of everything! It would also being BIllIONS to the us government every year.
I don’t know, I am just an ex-smoker who wants to smoke again and wish that it was legal because I don’t understand why it isn’t, I wish there was something we could all do to make it legal.
But in the meantime smoke on,
If you don’t smoke and have never tried It or have only tried it a few times and didn’t like it at all..shut up and don’t judge because it took me probably 15 times smoking to actually like it. I used to be against it too before I found out the positive effects it has.
Smoke on!
Ron Paul for president 2010!!!
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First smoked when i was 13, started a regular basis when 16.. Graduated high school when i was 17,, 4.0gpa in college still smoking. Every position I held was commendable, I’m 31 best shape in my life and no heart diseases lung cancers or any others deseases in my blood. I care for people and many foods people consume are causing deaths and obesity, pharmaceutical drugs cause side effects and deaths, why not speak the truth to save lifes and not make money out of saying lies is inhumane. Money is the root of all evil. Please education is always a good source of information speak with good doctors, lawyers, proffesors, let them speak the truth about this plant. It should be used to cure people, save the enviroment we so desperatly need and give people back the integrity they deserve that has been taken away because if these current laws.
If you smoke marijuana, you are an idiot loser, if you don’t agree, you are in denial LOSERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!