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
by pot smoking and getting behind the wheel. How many died of lung cancer because a
joint has 10 times more cancer causing chemicals in it. Maybe you can't die from pot immediately, but in the long run it will bite you in the A$$.
The trouble with this country is we compare one sin to another. That is like a rotten parent finding some sort of solace by claiming he could be worse.
Since when did we stop attempting to be better? To compare ourselves to a higher ideal. To be drug FREE.
I almost lost a friend to cigarettes and alcohol this week. A beautiful woman. Actually, a gorgeous woman. She just survived all the transfusions and surgeries by the thinnest of margins. I will be able to enjoy her for a little while longer. She swears she will give up both. It might be hard. She owns a successful night club.
Keep all this crap away from you. I am in a bad,bad mood over this and the nurses at her hospital critical care ward confided to me they see tragedy like this everyday and yet they still smoke and drink. Maybe they will now do some of it at her club.
Toughen up America.
Our leaders ,those in HIGH places dont want you to wake up ,dont want you to think ,dont want you to challenge.
I dont believe in our leaders anymore.
Yes ,drink and smoke cigarettes ,it keeps you unhealty ,keeps you down below ,keeps you depressed.
You know they do talk about the tree of all knowledge.....
To think it could be ,the pot plant...
Guess I will burn in hell :)
Or are we in hell allready ?
Tipical that there is a way around some problems .......
We would rather suffer than grow
In our country ,the choice is this .....
Drink and get raped in jail if you are cought.
Well I think then the "harder" stuff might be more worth the "effort"
The payoff is worth it anyway.
Everything in life ,is damaging ....
The end result is the same ,death.
At the very least go out with a bang ,and stick it to the man !
Fck the law in this regard
The law is disregard....
Mental? Pot's probably worse.
Read my comment before you reply.
Edit, or more accurately:
"Cigarettes
in terms of physical health."
Notice the lower case "i" on "in", i was continuing the same sentence on the following line.
They build a reliance on the high, then they're as bad without it as any other drug addict. I'd say that constitutes a significant effecton mental health.
Cigarettes are much more addictive, and therefore it would be much more difficult to stop smoking them. Plus they are also much cheaper, I think, meaning in more cigarettes smoked.