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OFFICIAL "How Much Cannabis You Would Have To Consume To Die

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Bazarocka

Now I always wondered about this. Here's The answer. :tiphat:
http://drugwarfacts.org/cms/?q=node/30

(1998 - marijuana)
"3. The most obvious concern when dealing with drug safety is the possibility of lethal effects. Can the drug cause death?
"4. Nearly all medicines have toxic, potentially lethal effects. But marijuana is not such a substance. There is no record in the extensive medical literature describing a proven, documented cannabis-induced fatality.
"5. This is a remarkable statement. First, the record on marijuana encompasses 5,000 years of human experience. Second, marijuana is now used daily by enormous numbers of people throughout the world. Estimates suggest that from twenty million to fifty million Americans routinely, albeit illegally, smoke marijuana without the benefit of direct medical supervision. Yet, despite this long history of use and the extraordinarily high numbers of social smokers, there are simply no credible medical reports to suggest that consuming marijuana has caused a single death.
"6. By contrast aspirin, a commonly used, over-the-counter medicine, causes hundreds of deaths each year.
"7. Drugs used in medicine are routinely given what is called an LD-50. The LD-50 rating indicates at what dosage fifty percent of test animals receiving a drug will die as a result of drug induced toxicity. A number of researchers have attempted to determine marijuana's LD-50 rating in test animals, without success. Simply stated, researchers have been unable to give animals enough marijuana to induce death.

"8. At present it is estimated that marijuana's LD-50 is around 1:20,000 or 1:40,000. In layman terms this means that in order to induce death a marijuana smoker would have to consume 20,000 to 40,000 times as much marijuana as is contained in one marijuana cigarette. NIDA-supplied marijuana cigarettes weigh approximately .9 grams. A smoker would theoretically have to consume nearly 1,500 pounds of marijuana within about fifteen minutes to induce a lethal response.
 

mrcreosote

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I can't remember where I saw it but they had a guy talking about how much cannabis it would take to kill a lab rat.

He said about 20 lbs....dropped on the rat from 10 feet ought to do it.
 
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i think they said that there actually is a way..you would have to asphyxiate yourself with smoke...like smoke a 7 pound joint in a coffin or something.
 

sso

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hmm, this just makes me very interested in what it would be like to consume about a pound of a really strong sativa :) (concentrated into butter or somethinglol)

hehhee maybe later :)
 

Mrs.Babba

THE CHIMNEY!!
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You would fall asleep before you could consume enough to kill you, just cant happen. :D
 

DiscoBiscuit

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Remember mr owl and the tootsie pop? We may never find out.:) Not sure I'd volunteer for any experiments with high degrees of edibles. Not that I'm afraid I might die.

I'm absolutely certain I'd think I was gonna die, lol. That's why I do edibles in strict moderation. Then I'll puff till the cows come home.
 

lost in a sea

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you would have to eat it until a nutrient definciency killed you lol

i wish i had a slab of black moroccan hash big enough to kill a man but i dont, dont have anyone to kill either :biglaugh:

just get killer high :rasta:
 

qupee

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i think they said that there actually is a way..you would have to asphyxiate yourself with smoke...like smoke a 7 pound joint in a coffin or something.

But it wouldn't be the drug's toxicity that killed you, it would be plain suffocation, which would probably happen anyway just from being in a closed coffin long enough to smoke a 7 pound joint, lol.
 

joe fresh

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"How Much Cannabis You Would Have To Consume To Die"


simple....you touch my weed and we gonna see it dont take much....lol



seriously though....i smoke a lb or more a month...you would go bankrupt before you would die.....in fact you cant die from weed....
 

Bush Dr

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I always thought Ben Dronkers answer of "4kg dropped from at least 3 floors above" was the most precise answer
 
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Bullfrog44

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Once I dropped a quarter size nug on the floor. It got super hairy because I have dogs. I held the piece of pot up to my mouth, took a big breath to blow off the hair, and sucked the nug down my windpipe. I thought for about 5 seconds I might die, then I just coughed it up. Does that count?
 

paladin420

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I know of a snitch I would like to test out a Hot Hash Oil enema on..just in the interest in science don't cha kno...
 

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