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On April 23 2011 05:48 Kantutan wrote:
I don't care if they legalize it or not, but IMO they need an easy and efficient way to detect if someone is on it (the pot equivalent of a breathalizer). Not sure if that is possible. I already know way too many idiots who think it's alright to drive completely stoned. Whether you choose to believe it or not, you are driving with a handicap and are putting yourself and others at risk :/

On April 23 2011 05:48 Kantutan wrote:
I don't care if they legalize it or not, but IMO they need an easy and efficient way to detect if someone is on it (the pot equivalent of a breathalizer). Not sure if that is possible. I already know way too many idiots who think it's alright to drive completely stoned. Whether you choose to believe it or not, you are driving with a handicap and are putting yourself and others at risk :/

On April 03 2011 15:39 Aequos wrote:


I did a quick google on it, and people have died due to marijuana. .

Cannabis
(safety of cannabis) "Tetrahydrocannabinol is a very safe drug. Laboratory animals (rats, mice, dogs, monkeys) can tolerate doses of up to 1,000 mg/kg (milligrams per kilogram). This would be equivalent to a 70 kg person swallowing 70 grams of the drug—about 5,000 times more than is required to produce a high. Despite the widespread illicit use of cannabis there are very few if any instances of people dying from an overdose. In Britain, official government statistics listed five deaths from cannabis in the period 1993-1995 but on closer examination these proved to have been deaths due to inhalation of vomit that could not be directly attributed to cannabis (House of Lords Report, 1998). By comparison with other commonly used recreational drugs these statistics are impressive."

Source: Iversen, Leslie L., PhD, FRS, "The Science of Marijuana" (London, England: Oxford University Press, 2000), p. 178, citing House of Lords, Select Committee on Science and Technology, "Cannabis — The Scientific and Medical Evidence" (London, England: The Stationery Office, Parliament, 1998).

(no deaths induced by marijuana) An exhaustive search of the literature finds no deaths induced by marijuana. The US Drug Abuse Warning Network (DAWN) records instances of drug mentions in medical examiners' reports, and though marijuana is mentioned, it is usually in combination with alcohol or other drugs. Marijuana alone has not been shown to cause an overdose death.

Source: Source: Drug Abuse Warning Network (DAWN), available on the web at http://www.samhsa.gov/ ; also see Janet E. Joy, Stanley J. Watson, Jr., and John A. Benson, Jr., "Marijuana and Medicine: Assessing the Science Base," Division of Neuroscience and Behavioral Research, Institute of Medicine (Washington, DC: National Academy Press, 1999), available on the web at http://www.nap.edu/html/marimed/; and US Department of Justice, Drug Enforcement Administration, "In the Matter of Marijuana Rescheduling Petition" (Docket #86-22), September 6, 1988, p. 57.