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Originally Posted by Kane Knight
Marijuana can actually reduce your respiration to the point of death. With or without allergies. This is the same way they spin it so that pepper spray hasn't killed anyone.
"But your honor, the bullet didn't kill the victim--blood loss did!" Technicalities are fun.
I know people tout the "You can't overdose on Marijuana." It's cute.
Anyway, RVD made the comment about nobody ever dying from marijuana use that I was mocking. He didn't say OD, nor do I have any real indication to believe he meant OD. Especially since the argument was bolstered by claims of conspiracies and coverups. As such, I'm not one to give him credit that the rest of his argument was well-thought out.
For the record, Marijuana is PHYSICALLY addictive to about 20% of the population. A lot of people try and argue back and forth on the issue as to whether or not it's addictive. The answer is, they're both right. one fifth of the world will develop chemical dependency. Most of the world, eighty percent, will not, and can smoke for decades with only issues of habit forming behaviour. That and cancer, the fact that your risk of a heart attack QUADRUPLES after smoking a joint, and a lot of other heavy risks, but those weren't really the point.
Well, except that when you smoke too much pot, you can make your heart explode. But that's got nothing to do with overdosing either, right?
...Right?
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KK is correct.
Also my $0.02 worth re Marijuana causing death:
If I can use the analogy of a sober person driving a car and comes across a level railway crossing and all of a sudden a train passes by.
The sober driver will recognise the danger, evaluate, slow down and safely come to a stop.
The drunk driver will recognise the danger, however, his reaction time is so impaired that he doesn't brake in time and hits the train.
The stoned driver will recognise the danger, evaluate, giggle inanely to himself and think "oh well" and hit the train.