It's safer than aspirin and has many more medical uses. In 1988 the DEA's cheif administrative law judge called it the safest therapotically active substance known to man. Cannabis should be legal for adults to use in the privacy of one's home. It is prohibition that causes harm to society not the substance.
2006-09-29 11:56:20 · 10 answers · asked by eldoradoman1953 2 in Politics & Government ➔ Law Enforcement & Police
Well, that is because drugs don't cause overdoses, it is people actually who cause them.
2006-09-29 11:58:24 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
How do you define overdose, death?
It's virtually impossible to say if *smoking* too much cannabis has *ever* caused someone to die since we've only been accurately recording the causes of death in people for a couple of hundred years, but it's almost certain that people have died in the course of buying and selling cannabis. There's a reason we call them "dope dealers." Plus, Inhaling any foreign substance into your lungs often enough will eventually cause damage, and damage can lead to premature death.
Without adequate data, it's impossible to answer this question with any certainty, but I will say this... I've met some burnouts that were so pathetically useless, they'd probably be better off if they were dead. Perhaps you are one of them?
2006-09-29 22:13:35 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, I don't agree. I don have any data on that one way or the other. You presume to be making a stance without supporting data.
However, the statement, "It is prohibition that causes harm to society not the substance." I would tend to agree with from a law enforcement perspective.
2006-09-29 18:58:21 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
That's like saying tobacco hasn't had an overdose. You couldn't overdose on aspirin either if you smoked it.
Marijuana causes impairment, like alcohol, but you can't measure the impairment as well as you can with alcohol. So what do you do about people who smoke and drive? It's not safe to smoke and drive, but how will we test when the person has smoked, and how high they are, to be able to effectively regulate it as far as driving is concerned?
2006-09-29 19:01:59 · answer #4 · answered by Equichick 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I agree! I have never heard of an overdose from inhaling cannabis. Although people really should be careful baking with it.
2006-09-29 18:58:44 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
aside from lung damage you are correct several presidential committees found it even less innocuous then it really is however the question I would pose is this: If medicinal marijuana is so much in demand among certain factions why not find a cheap and easy method to convert it to a pill form ??????????
respiratory failure is hell....
2006-09-29 19:09:45 · answer #6 · answered by dogpatch USA 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Lets get our drugs that are already legal under better control then maybe we will legalize it. Alcohol use is not nearly under good enough control to introduce another drug.
2006-09-29 19:01:44 · answer #7 · answered by Yit 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Actually I remember this time 9342 years ago, this guy was such a stoner and smoked a pound in one sitting. Yeah he OD'd. It really sucked. I miss him.
2006-09-29 18:59:36 · answer #8 · answered by John 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Quit hogging that dobbie and pass the doritoes.
2006-09-29 18:59:13 · answer #9 · answered by super stud 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes
2006-09-29 23:43:18 · answer #10 · answered by locofreads 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋