All causes of death per year 2,436,652
Cardiovascular diseases 779,367
Malignant neoplasms 568,668
Lack of Health Insurance3 44,789
Drug induced2 37,485
Suicide 36,547
Motor vehicle accidents 36,284
Septicemia (infections) 35,587
by Firearms 31,224
Accidental poisoning 30,504
Alcohol induced 23,199
Homicide 16,591
Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) 9,424
Viral hepatitis 7,652
Cannabis (Marijuana) 0
Major marijuana myth: pot use use can be a cause of death. So say many anti-drug warriors, such as Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, who recently wrote to a constituent that "marijuana and other narcotics" can lead to death.
PotleafAccording to Time magazine, "No one has ever died of THC [marijuana] poisoning, mostly because a 160-pound person would have to smoke roughly 900 joints in a sitting to reach a lethal dose."
In 1988, DEA Administrative Judge Francis Young concluded, "In order to induce death, a smoker would have to consume 20,000 to 40,000 times as much marijuana as is contained in one marijuana cigarette."
Is It Worse for Teens to Smoke Pot or Cigarettes?
SodaHead Living
2012/06/11 18:00:00
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Here's the good news: Fewer teens are smoking cigarettes. Here's the bad news: More of them are smoking pot. A new study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that only 18 percent of teens said they smoked a cigarette in the past 30 days, but 23 percent said they smoked marijuana in the same time frame.
So why are adolescents choosing pot over cigarettes? A study from the University of Michigan found that teens have gotten the message that cigarettes are bad for you, but seem to believe marijuana is less harmful.
Alcohol, however, is still teens' top drug of choice. More than 1 in 3 high school students reported current alcohol use in 2011, and 1 in 5 high school students reported binge drinking, CBS reports. Do you think it's more dangerous for teens to smoke pot? Or cigarettes?
Top Opinion
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Stoner 2012/06/11 18:08:41
I've never been to a funeral where the deceased died from using cannabis.
It's been medically proven that cannabis lessens the pressure on the optic nerve for glucoma patients. Which I don't doubt because the blood vessels dialate in the user's eyes or what we called 'Chinese eyes' that was the tell-tale sign one had been tokin'.
The use of cannabis is also beneficial for the treatment of those on chemotherapy who cannot keep their nutrients down. The use of weed keeps their food down in their stomachs where it belongs.
Cannabis is also a painkiller without the harmful addiction possibility of opiates in the user.
So, . . . I, myself have used cannabis for pain relief and I am not an abuser. It does alleviate my 6-hernia pain with degenerative disc disease and I can reconcile my use of it by Genesis 1:11-13.
Don't judge another until you have walked a mile in their moccasins.
Cannabis isn't addictive, the same as guns don't kill people, PEOPLE kill people the same as PEOPLE ((DECIDE)) they MUST have weed...and BTW numbnuts, more people are addicted to and die from SMOKING CIGS THAN ((ANY)) OTHER THING ON THIS PLANET. Educate yourself, monkey.