last week I told you the story a 31-year-old Gemma maas in the United
Kingdom
and there was controversy over the
coroner's report which claimed that she had died from
cannabis abuse or cannabis poisoning
stopping just short of calling it a so-called marijuana
overdose but really kinda implying that now
we have seen so much reaction to this
%uh hundreds and hundreds of comments many emails and
lots of new articles written about this concept of a marijuana
overdose and bass has an article called there is still no such thing
as a fatal marijuana overdose saying that
in spite of the fact that the coroner's report
weirdly in the absence other definitive
causes of death said that cannabis poisoning was the reason for Jummah
mosses death
that there is absolutely no way
that she died from any kind of so-called marijuana
overdose now there is in nineteen 88 ruling from the US Drug Enforcement
Agency
and it says drugs used in medicine
are routinely given what is called and LD 50
the LD 50 rating indicates at what dosage
50 percent a test animals receiving that dosage would die
as the result of toxicity rum that drug
a number researchers have attempted to determine marijuana's LD 50 rating in
test animals without success
simply stated researchers have been
unable to give animals and not marijuana
to induce death at present it estimated that marijuana
LD 50 is around 12 20,000 or 12 40,000 these are ratios
in layman's terms this means that in order to induce death
a marijuana smoker would have to consume 20,000
to 40,000 times as much marijuana
as is in one marijuana cigarette this would be about 15
100 pounds a marijuana
in 15 minutes to induce a lethal response
Louis are you surprised by the amount instantly all of a sudden
the marijuana advocates are going into all of the technical research after we
hear rumors of a so-called marijuana overdose
right it's good to hear I am pretty shocked
at these numbers I would have guessed it would be less than 1500 pounds
are but of course this is just an estimate right dizzy and and again it's
been quite a wide range 12 20001 to 40,000 doctor Alan Shackelford is a
harvard-trained physician in a leading marijuana advocate in Colorado
he said to The Denver Post there's been no history
any verified deported reports over death from cannabis
ever so people up smoke
cannabis marijuana people do have a heart attack
there will be a number of people with you mad imagine a band diagram
which will be in the group of people who smoke marijuana and shortly thereafter
have a heart attack however
that also happens with other substances that happens with no substance is many
people have
cardiac arrest while they sleep and to say that there is causality
between sleeping and having a heart attack or marijuana and having a heart
attack
definitely brings up some some serious scientific questions and further we have
to remember
that let's save it was true
that Gemma mas is the one person or one of two people in the UK that supposedly
died
from a marijuana overdose marijuana toxicity
do we make things the legal based on
wreak unlikely accident it certainly doesn't seem to happen
with alcohol right there are people smoking weed everyday
all day every day in this isn't happening to them a
course we we shouldn't rule based on that but I I have to assume that it
if smoking this joint somehow caused the heart attack
I have to assume that there is something wrong with your heart to begin with they
must've been in a weakened state
and as such smoking cigarettes which happened to be legal could have brought
on the same
week cardiac arrest not exactly
yeah who knows maybe maybe even drinking maybe even running up the stairs too
fast that so
of course this this whole story is just a farce