Drugs kill people. I hope Al Gores son gets over his drug abuse someday. It's not easy for you to have a father that is a puffy national embarassment.
Stay strong!
2007-07-06 04:46:04 · 22 answers · asked by fourthy27 2 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
OMG I hope your cousin survived!
2007-07-06 04:53:15 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 5⤋
I can not find any record of anyone ever in history overdosing on Marijuana and having any permanent injury. Perhaps the Marijuana was laced with something else?
Marijuana tends to be self moderating by making you unable to use too much. Much like when you hold your breath, you can't hold your breath until you do yourself damage. When holding your breath, your body would protect itself by making you faint and allowing autonomic systems take over to start your breathing again before you hurt yourself. Your body's defenses against Marijuana are much the same. You would become incapacitated before you could smoke enough to do you harm.
Unfortunately, current drug laws give growers the incentive to make more potent marijuana. This makes marijuana less predictable and incapacitating doses more easily reached. Higher potency makes it so that the risk of moving the marijuana is smaller. Growers have to move less product (in volume) to make the same amount of money. The government could be helpful here by making it a requirement to disclose the amount of THC in each variety of marijuana that is sold. That would help people like your cousin who did not know how potent the marijuana was that they were using.
There is one other perspective to consider. Recently someone died overdosing on water. Anyone can overdose on just about anything,even Oxygen. People overdose and die on vitamins, "nutritonal supplements", food, industrial chemicals and other substances every day. Marijuana cannot even come close to being as bad as those substances.
Governments have done the public a disservice by bunching all illegal drugs all into one group in their propaganda campaigns. A person might try marijuana and decide after a period of time, "gee, that wasn't so risky. Lets try one of those other drugs that they say is so bad..." The government itself has turned Marijuana into a "gateway drug" by demonizing it in the same fashion it demonizes heroin in their "drug education" programs. Its a good intentioned program that has backfired with the use of misinformation.
I'm sorry to hear about your cousin. But I am even more sorry that there is not accurate and honest information out there that could have helped your cousin.
2007-07-06 12:47:50 · answer #2 · answered by melancholybebe 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
That is BS at it worst. You CAN NOT OD ON WEED! It's a clinical fact. You can't even get hooked on the stuff. I've been in law enforcement and I've had schooling in the field of medicine not to mention my girlfriend is a drug councilor and it's impossible to OD on it.
You are a typical liberal liar.
2007-07-06 12:38:21 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Sorry, that is a physical impossibility. A person would have to be able to smoke over a pound in one breath, just not possible.
2007-07-06 11:59:10 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Your cousin OD'd on pot? Wow, that is so highly unusual as to be virtually impossible. Unless he had some other underlying medical condition, he is a very rare case.
2007-07-06 11:48:32 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 0⤋
That'll be the first person I've ever heard of over-dosing on marijuana - it mostly makes people stupid and silly and asleep when done to excess - even the paranoia isn't as bad as harder drugs like cocaine (crack for poor people), heroin and meth.
2007-07-06 11:49:30 · answer #6 · answered by Ben 5 · 4⤊ 0⤋
You don't overdose on johnblaze. Maybe you should smoke some, so you can learn how to spell.
2007-07-06 12:00:41 · answer #7 · answered by Stew 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Did they pump your cousin's stomach? Or was this just a case of paranoia?
At least he wasn' t snorting the Devil's powder like George W.
2007-07-06 12:02:04 · answer #8 · answered by Global warming ain't cool 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Well your cousin deserves the Darwin Award for being the stupidest SOB on the planet then.
I've never heard of anyone OD'ing on pot.
2007-07-06 11:50:01 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 0⤋
One takes drug because of an underlying problem that he/she cannot face. By taking drug, ones problem is being camouflage due to a seemingly high feeling of Ecstasy. But it will not get the person to any good. Your cousin is in real danger. Try to help him/her to seek for medication and to quit from taking drug (marijuana). It is not too late to do it.
2007-07-06 12:01:56 · answer #10 · answered by Binnus 3 · 0⤊ 4⤋
More likely he overdosed on bad genetics.
2007-07-06 11:58:08 · answer #11 · answered by wooper 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋