Has anyone ever died from smoking marijuana?

Question

I have to prove to a friend of mine that it is not lethal and I am also interested myself...I spent four hours researching and from what it sounds like marijuana is safer to smoke than cigarettes. Can somebody help me out and tell me whats the deal with this? Why are cigarettes available so readily and are legal when "pot" is nowhere near as dangerous??

Answer 1

the government over exaggerates the harmful effects of pot. So do many other people due to the whole "reefer madness" scene of the 50's. This is when a film extremely over exaggerated the harmful effects of marijuana. It was shown to most of the country to make people afraid of marijuana. Lying about it made people not want to try it. It said a bunch of bs like it makes you crazy and kill people. Me and at least 20 people i know (ive smoked with way more at parties etc.) have been doing it for quite some time. None of are crazy. The worst thing pot does to us is give us munchies :]. marijuana is the most commonly uses illegal substance in the United States. it is used by many people, most of which aren't your stereotypical "druggie", with no life agead of them. Many of them hapen to be very successful, good people. Think about it almost if not every person who reads this paper will know (even if they don't realize it) at least one if not several regular users of marijuana. Its often made out to be much more harmful htan it really is, unfortunatly not every one realizes this.

What many people don't realize is marijuana is much less harmful than alcohol or tobacco. Yet it's the one of the three that gets a bad rap and is illegal. Marijuana isn't even physicaly addicting. You certanly don't see meetings for marijuana like you do with alcohol and AA. Unfortunatly due to American culture the less harmful of the three is illegal.

The most common reason why marijuana can be harmful is that people can often come across laced marijuana without realizing it. Marijuana can easily be mixed with other more harmful drugs with out the buyer realizing it, until they have already used it. This is a dangerous thing that causes many people to do more harmful, hard core drugs without realizing it. If it were to be legalized the government could provide guide lines, like it does with alchol to insure that people knew what they were putting into their bodies.

Marijuana actually has many helpful benefits toward diseases / sicknesses. Marijuana can reduce nausea, vomiting, and loss of appetite caused by AIDS. It can Reduce interlobular pressure, which alleviates the pain and slowing and sometimes even stopping the progress of glaucoma. Common side effects of chemotherapy are nausea, loss of appetite, and vomiting, all of which marijuana would help. It can limit muscle pain and relieve tremor nad unsteadiness of gait for multiple sclerosis patients. Marijuana can help prevent epileptic seizures in some patients. It can also alleviate chronic, often debilitating pain caused by myriad disorders and injuries. Each one of these applications have been deemed legitimate by at least one United States court, legislature, and/or government agency.

Due to these reasons and many others many people are going to jail/prison on a daily basis due to simply smoking a little pot These aren't dangerous criminals that would kill or rape someone. Many of them are teachers, lawyers and respected members of their communities. But yet we still pay thousands of dollars of tax payers money to lock up non dangerous "criminals" yearly even though most aren't going to stop after they get out of jail. Don't you think the money spent here is a waste? Couldn't it be going to more useful things such as hospitals, disease research, or better schools? These are the things that would benifit the people of this country. Certanily you would rather benefit the people more than throwing a non violent pot head in jail who was only trying to smoke a joint and relax after a long days work in jail. There is up to forty million regular (note thats just the regular not occasional users) drug users in the United states. If we were to throw all of them in jail it would cost $500,000 per million people, plus the cost and space of building many more prisons. Couldm't that money be spent on building hospitals? There's already about 1.5 million people tax payers are paying to keep in jail over drugs. From 1990 to 2003, nearly 5.9 million people had been arrested for smoking marijuana. Thats a greater number than the entire population of Alaska, Delaware, The District of Columbia, Montania, North and South Dakota, Vermont, and Wyoming combined. This country simply can't afford to put 40 million more in jail.

Marijuana should be legalized. It has many uses such as helping sick patients. People are going to smoke it no matter what the government sais, and with out govenment guidelines this can be dangerous. Not to mention the fact that we have no way we can afford to throw all those people in jail. Its much less harmful than alcohol and tobacco, which are legal, so doesn't it make sense that it would be also?

Answer 2

I have never heard of anyone dying from just smoking it but there have been people who die from the sedation that it causes because it may cause your reflects to react slower like when your driving a car and you might not be able to respond as quickly and besides it burns your brain cells out and that's why it's called dope. I have tried it one time and didn't do anything for me. It is a schedule one drug which means it's very addictive so don't get caught up in being a victim to marijuana!!!

Answer 3

Not directly, but the Tar (which much more than cigs) aids to lung cancer.

Your best bet is to use a Freezer bong (freeze the water & cracks when you smoke & also cools down the smoke.
(can add extacts to have wonderful tasting smoke too!

Do get short term memory loss (due marijuana goes into your fat which your brain has quite a bit in there.) If smoke before your brain has finished growing age:20-23ish you will have more problems.

P.S.Freezer Bong, you can smoke more this way too!!! The smell is cut down a lot this way!!!

ENJOY!!! :)

From Wikipedia:
The drug cannabis, commonly known as marijuana, is produced from parts of the cannabis plant, primarily the cured flowers and gathered trichomes of the female plant. The major active chemical compound tetrahydrocannabinol, commonly referred to as THC, has psychoactive and medicinal effects when consumed, usually by smoking or ingestion. Cannabis has been consumed by humans for thousands of years; in the 20th century there was an upswing in the use of cannabis for recreational and religious purposes.

The possession, use, or sale of psychoactive cannabis products became illegal in many parts of the world in the early 20th century. Since then, while some countries have intensified the enforcement of cannabis prohibition, others have reduced the priority of enforcement to the point of de facto legality. Cannabis remains illegal in the vast majority of the world's countries.

Answer 4

I am no doctor but i was a avid pot smoker and i can tell you that i smoked a oz of weed and drank 2 liter bottles of johnny walker with 2 friends and we are ok now that being said it depends on where you get the weed cause sometimes people add extra chemicals to it and it could kill you and weed that is grown naturally no extras no nothing added to it is actually safer then cigs and the reason cigs are readily avaiable is cause cigs make the states alot of money from taxes and sales and hospital visits and everything involved with it where as weed makes the govt more money being illegal

ITS ALL ABOUT MONEY

Answer 5

No one has ever died from smoking real natural mariguana, the mariguana of the new millenium is mostly chemical and combined, but the weed of the 60's and 70's , that is not lethal at all, is like smoking banana or cilantro, same thing, no one will die from that ever, because there is not enough poison in the weed to kill, just to produce the hallucination phase and the exctasy state.
Also what kills is the consequences, like doing stupid things or drive a car or ,....
Unfortunately the mariguana of these times is produced with lot of fertilizer, chemicals and more crap that makes it different


Mark is not the mariguana what causes the synergy, as I said before is what they are combining now in the growing process and in the drying processing.

Answer 6

No one has died from smoking weed in the same sense that no one has died from smoking cigarettes--meaning that no one has overdosed on either cigarettes or marijuana. Marijuana is, in fact, roughly ten times as carcinogenic as cigarettes, mainly due to the fact that cigarettes are filtered, whereas marijuana pipes/joints aren't; however, smoking cigarettes causes more cancer because, generally speaking, people don't smoke marijuana nearly as much as they smoke cigarettes.

Answer 7

HELL NO! Weed is just another herb like straight tobacco. The crap in the paper, and the additives are what crystallize in your lungs. It is a mind altering substance, just like oxygen, tobacco, alchohol, sex, etc. How can you regulate everything? IMO, Its all just another form of control from our friendly big brother Goverment. Pot growing could become a huge industry, instead they'd prefer law enforcement, and the prison system to thrive from the assinine laws against marijuana. Not to even go into the medical side of it. But, thats just my two cents.

Answer 8

its impossilbe to die from smoking marijuana. the only way u could possible od on marijauna is if u eat it eat A LOT of it. studies and studies have concluded thatits impossible to od from smoking marijuana

Answer 9

One is a controlled substance which will cause hallucinations. At which point this answers your 1st question YES people have died indirectly from smoking it.

Answer 10

it is impossible from smoking marijuanna. you would most likely pass out before getting to a point where you would die from it. The only way i could see someone dying is if they passed out with a blunt in their mouth and it started a fire that killed them.

Answer 11

actually, marijuana is much more dangerous than cigarettes because people don't know much about it. If you smoke too much at once, you can easily OD and die. Also, smoking marijuana at the same time as drinking alcohol can result in synergism, which will slow your heart and lower your blood pressure. You can slip into a coma and die.