Here’s an interesting list I found that puts the dangers of marijuana in perspective. The sources of these statistics are reports ranging from 2003-2006 from the American Medical Association, National Center for Health Statistics, and US Centers for Disease Control:
Annual Causes of Death in the United States:
- Tobacco: 435,000
- Poor Diet and Physical Inactivity: 365,000
- Alcohol: 85,000
- Microbial Agents: 75,000
- Toxic Agents: 55,000
- Motor Vehicle Crashes: 26,374
- Adverse Reactions to Prescription Drugs: 32,000
- Suicide: 30,622
- Incidents Involving Firearms: 29,000
- Homicide: 20,308
- Sexual Behaviors: 20,000
- All Illicit Drug Use, Direct and Indirect: 17,000
- Non-Steroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drugs such as Aspirin: 7,600
- MARIJUANA: 0
This information could be used to make a case for outlawing couch potatoes who sit around watching porn, smoking cigarettes and eating Big Macs under the influence of aspirin. But, um, as a deterrent against smoking pot it didn’t exactly scare the pants off me. They’ll have to try harder.
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I do not know if toxicology tests vary but my experience with drinks from nutrition stores has been successful at testing negative for weed. I am 240 lbs. I ain’t advertising for them however.
i smoke nothing but the most potent buds and i have no problem being behinf the wheel…i feel as if im better driving high than sober(my opinion) because when im sober im more aggresive…and i have wittnesses that tell me the same.
if there has never been an overdose how many times has a person died whilst on the drug and it says 20,000 died from sexual activitys what is classafied as a death from such activitys
> how many times has a person died whilst on the drug
That’s like asking how many people died of a heart attack on the same day that they paid a phone bill. Strange question, impossible to answer.
> it says 20,000 died from sexual activitys what is classafied as a death from such activitys
Sounds like you’ve had kind of a sheltered life. I’m not even going to go there, that’s what Google is for.
when i was in high school i skipped with some friends, we went to one of thier apartments and started to pass the bong around. Before i knew it, it was just a friend and i smoking everone else had stopped i guessedamated i took around 36 bong hits. i tryed to pass out on the floor but my stoned laughing friends were pokin fun at me. we walked back to school and on the way i vomited. i got to my high school and went straight to the girls room. last thing i remember i looked in the mirror and thought to myself “man i am messed up” . i woke up 3 days later in the hospital. they had ekg’s drug testing and couldnt figure out why i wouldnt wake up. they finally got my friend to tell them that i smoked pot, the funny thing is they did a drug test and nothing came up. i had what i feel was an overdose and i smoked myself clean. lol true story.
How many of those motor vehicle accidents were caused by being under the influence of pot? Just wondering…
I’m sure not anywhere near the amount that were caused by being under the influence of alcohol, prescription pain drugs or sleep deprivation.
I certainly wouldn’t encourage people to get high and get behind the wheel, but my point is that pot doesn’t affect response time as much as those things do. Just sayin…
Please note that self injurious behavior among autistic populations who are non verbal is rooted in multiple antecedents that fluctuate daily and are rooted in autistic disorder. Primarily the inability to communicate and cognitive impairments in autistic population. This is very complex. However, there are similarities among self injurious person in general. For instance, the frustration of being held captive to what is often a behavior that has evolved into a compuslive behavior. A behavior that is triggered by a plethora of antecedents, due to autistic person’s inability to respond to conventional methods used in non autistic populations to thwart or otherwise reduce the tendencies to self abuse. Marijuana advocates don’t seem to understand the complexities involved in dealing with autistic who present with chronic intraccable SIB. If they want to be taken seriously, they need to do their research. They need to explain WHY marijuana would HELP autistic who self abuse. What does marijuana DO to brain that would help? Does it elevate dopamine? Or other neurotransmitters that would reduce tendency to self abuse? What are adverse reactions? What about autistics with seizure issues? Or who have complex issues? You can’t just take one or two examples of people who CLAIM dope helped their autistic kid without examining WHY or HOW this worked?
see kgaccount on you tube for better understanding of how complex treatment is with autistic population who self abuse. Hit and Run STORIES about how weed helped a self abusing autistic are not enought. If U all want to be taken seriously than SHOW us the EVIDENCE and science as to WHY this could stop self injurious behavior among autistics.