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
Why I would like to see that type of study. All you and I are doing is guessing.
Quite frankly do you know anyone that leads a productive life that would smoke 40 joints the same amount of mary jane that a 2 pack a day smoke would smoke? I can imagine what the person would be like.. very very happy most of the time.
No, you would not have a productive life if you smoked 40 joints a day. You'd actually pass out after about 7 and take a long nap. You can't compare the two.
Even 7 a day would be considered a pothead. MOST cannabis smokers don't want that. They want the right to get stoned like a person has a right to have a cocktail....on average.
Liquor is much more harsh on your body.
You can't compare the two but you have too. Or at least that is what I am trying to do. It is not the ingredients from a joint but the smoke inhalation itself that kills your lungs. In tobacco it is both the ingredients and smoke that kills ya.
I am pass the legal debate on whether it should be legalized or not. This is pure smoke inhalation. The inhalation of any type of smoke is bad for your lungs. Same as sitting by a campfire made from a maple tree - that smoke inhalation is bad for too.
As to your first statement, I assume that you meant to say that marijuana has minute amounts of toxins.
I agree that any smoke has toxins. Incense; smoke from roasting peppers, smoke from smoking meats and fish, car exhaust and many more. I also would never recommend cigarettes to anyone; it was the hardest thing I ever quit, and I've kicked heroin cold turkey! (clean now 31 years, 25 for tobacco).
I will never agree that marijuana smoke is harmful. It has a couple of things that are undesirable, but the amounts are negligible and are far outweighed by the benifis.
My first statement is towards a tobacco cigarette. She mentioned ingredients.. I should have said chemicals. There are 3-4k chemicals added to a tobacco cigarette.
Congratulations on being heroin and tobacco free. I never was into drugs but am trying to kick my tobacco habit.
The only benefits that marijuana has is if you are suffering from an ailment that it can help relieve. Otherwise it is purely a recreational drug.
Why the heck to I have to pay 3.00 a pack in taxes on cigarettes?
I also have no urge to smoke one either.
Now I just need to find that dude's post and thank him profusely.
http://realitycheck.typepad.c...
http://health.msn.com/health-...
The tar.. yes... it is nasty stuff. Tobacco in general is harmful. Nicotine though,, is a point of debate just like weed.
An herb that's good for all things.
Pretty plant huh? Make sure to wear gloves.
Just because living things are gifts from God doesn't mean they won't kill you. God didn't make us to live forever.
His point it was given by God and available from the bush. That point is irrelevant which I was trying to show.
As for your unspoken assertion, its based on the fact that THC is impossible to administer in lethal doses under normal circumstances. HOWEVER, there are provable negative health consequences from Marijuana (Polen MR, Sidney S, Tekawa IS, Sadler M, Friedman GD. Health care use by frequent marijuana smokers who do not smoke tobacco. West J Med 158(6):596–601, 1993.: Tashkin DP. Smoked marijuana as a cause of lung injury. Monaldi Arch Chest Dis 63(2):92–100, 2005. etc.)
Actual fatalities directly from Marijuana= zero. Actual fatalaties directly from Tobacco= zero. Indirect fatalities from tobacco = approximately 600,000 per year in the US alone. Indirect fatalities from Marijuana= unknown, while studies have been done proving damage, no peer reviewed studies have been done even looking at death -- such a study would be very difficult to perform considering the legal ramifications - even the ones proving damage were difficult I believe.
It would be interesting to find out if the Dutch have done any studies on long term health -- does anyone read Dutch?
Regards,
Reyn
It seems that the study was conducted over a small time frame then extrapolated.
I never said that smoking cigs wasn't bad for you. I also stated smoking anything is bad for you.. particularly your lungs.
Dr. Tashkin said he and his colleagues had found in their own research — unexpectedly — that even smoking up to three joints a day did not appear to cause a decrease in lung function. “I think that the bottom line is that there does not appear to be any negative impact on lung function of marijuana smoking,” he said, “and that therefore marijuana is not a risk factor for the development of C.O.P.D. Tobacco smoking is the most important risk factor for C.O.P.D.”
Quite frankly most tobacco smoker smoke a pack a day. That's 20 smokes. That is over 6 times as many in the 3 example. Hardly a comparison to tobacco.
I can feel the nicotine deprivation going through my body. It is getting easier to control.
Just wanted to say thanks for the convo.
With odds like that, lung damage from pot is probably in the nano region on the scale of harm.
You probably do more damage to yourself by keeping toxic cleaning materials in your house like detergent for clothes and dishes. All of those things contain mucho toxins and they stay on your plates, in your clothes, in your children's clothes and plates. They all leave toxic residue on anything they're used on because they don't rinse off completely.
Walking down the detergent isle in the supermarket puts more toxins in your lungs than putting your mouth on the exhaust pipe of your car.