Pot is probably one of the, if not the most safe drugs around. It has been tested much longer than anything else sold over the counter...People die from cancer (ciggrits) & alcohol poisoning everyday - the only reason alcohol is legal in the states is because prohibition didn't work
There have actually been few long term studies done on the effects of pot and none of them have produced conclusive results. Marijuana like other drugs effects the psychological functioning of people and since there are at least 400 chemicals in pot (60 directly related to the active ingredent THC) the probabiliy of any conclusive findings anytime soon are slim at best. Also, there are documented cases of grow house operators getting drug-induced psychosis from exposure to pot, but this is only correlational information.
I'm not against pot, but it is not as "safe" as most people think. But it is "safer" then alcohol. Evern though both are bad
I just know that there's never been any confirmed deaths in the history of ever - to the best of my knowledge directly from marijuana. There was a man in the UK, 36 this past year who was basically the first case ever confirmed death of cannabis toxicity.
http://www.contumacy.org/bbs/index-archive.pl?noframes;read=25208
Hmm, this just doesn't seem to fit with what history has recorded
concerning cannabis use. In all tens of thousands of years that human
kind has been utilizing the flowering tops and leaves of the cannabis
plant, just now a young man from Britain becomes the first recorded
death resulting from cannabis poisoning. Strange since the DEA has
even ruled that marijuana is one of the safest therapeutically active
substance in the the world and has a toxicity so low that it is
virtually impossible to overdose and die from cannibinoid exposure.
In my eyes, that makes it the safest drug around, hands down. People have died from just about everything else out there, even tylenol (big time).
edit: Sorry, obviously there is 1 confirmed death, but the factors that play around it - smoking 6 joints a day, and having ingested quite a bit of pot also (which can be a huge strain on the heart, as ingesting typically makes your heartbeat like that of a hummingbird) seem to be crucial, or at least coinidental/controversial given the history of this plant. The link above even mentions the possibility of there being insecticide on the pot possibly, or other agents used to help grow the plant, or deter parasites.
