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Two Reno drivers and one woman from Las Vegas who face decades in prison after being involved in fatal accidents and testing positive for marijuana
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It is possible, even likely that people have died from emphysema related to marijuana smoking. I say this a a long time doper who enjoys smoking dope and who grew some of the best dope ever. But I'm not blind to it's effects. It's addicting (at least it was to me), it causes anxiety attacks (but if you know what you are doing, you can avoid them), and in time, it would cause me to cough my lungs out causing great concern to my wife. If you can use it to make brownies or butter, you will be better off. And never ever smoke it in a joint. Get yourself a small pipe, put a pinch in, and smoke that. You will use less and avoid the worst effects much better.
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I loved my comments that I wanted to leave them as an answer. Not conceded about my answers lol, just liked what I wrote.
I don't really think it is physically possible lol. Maybe if a person is acting stupid why smoking pot they could die because of their actions but not really from the pot.
This article,
http://alcoholism.about.com/b/2003/11/02/marijuana-causes-many-deaths-reported-as-accidents.htm, basically says that the deaths are really caused from the marijuana but are called "accidents". That is silly. Yes those accidents might have happened while being under the influence but it was not really a direct result of the marijuana.

According to http://drugwarfacts.org/cms/?q=node/30
Zero Deaths are caused from the use of Marijuana.

Shoot, I could die and they could find traces of my medicine for my ADHD and say oh she was under the influence of her prescription drug which caused this accident. So the prescription drug is what killed her. What a load of butterflys? Wanted to keep it clean. Anyways that was a silly example.

If marijuana was so bad they would not have people use it for medical reasons. But then again they used to give people other drugs that later showed harmful side effects, so maybe that is not a good argument.
But the good thing is that no one has ever even overdosed, at least not that I have came across.
Yes, you may die from something else while you have smoked the marijuana. Which may or may not be from the result of the changed thinking. Oh and Marijuana does not kill brain cells, unlike what most people believe. According to this fact page.
-----Quote-----http://www.drugpolicy.org/marijuana/factsmyths/
Myth: Marijuana Kills Brain Cells. Used over time, marijuana permanently alters brain structure and function, causing memory loss, cognitive impairment, personality deterioration, and reduced productivity.
Fact: None of the medical tests currently used to detect brain damage in humans have found harm from marijuana, even from long term high-dose use. An early study reported brain damage in rhesus monkeys after six months exposure to high concentrations of marijuana smoke. In a recent, more carefully conducted study, researchers found no evidence of brain abnormality in monkeys that were forced to inhale the equivalent of four to five marijuana cigarettes every day for a year. The claim that marijuana kills brain cells is based on a speculative report dating back a quarter of a century that has never been supported by any scientific study.
• Heath, R.G., et al. “Cannabis Sativa: Effects on Brain Function and Ultrastructure in Rhesus Monkeys.” Biological Psychiatry 15 (1980): 657-690.
• Ali, S.F., et al. “Chronic Marijuana Smoke Exposure in the Rhesus Monkey IV: Neurochemical Effects and Comparison to Acute and Chronic Exposure to Delta-9-Tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) in Rats.” Pharmacology Biochemistry and Behavior 40 (1991): 677-82.

-----/ End Quote-----http://www.drugpolicy.org/marijuana/factsmyths/

I MIGHT add more later. It is late, so I better go to bed, I don't want to let myself wake up. Can't let the insomnia feeling kick back in lol.
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http://alcoholism.about.com/b/2003/11/02/marijuana-causes-many-deaths-repor...
http://drugwarfacts.org/cms/?q=node/30
http://www.drugpolicy.org/marijuana/factsmyths/

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according to WebMD, marijuana doesn't kill

http://www.webmd.com/smoking-cessation/news/20030918/marijuana-smoking-doesnt-kill
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First off, I am definitely not an expert on the consumption or the effects of marijuana. But I'm pretty sure you will be hard pressed to find anyone who died directly from smoking marijuana.

There are plenty of sites that claim it happens (or at least that weed laced with PCP, Sulfuric Acid, or Cyanide has killed people), but I haven't found any actual documented cases.

There is an interesting page here by Dale Gieringer, Ph.D. and Coordinator of California NORML circa 1994 that lays out several of the popular marijuana myths and refutes each (with several citations at the end).

It does contain a section on the myth that "Marijuana is harmless" with 2 main categories:
1. respiratory disease due to smoking and
2. accidental injuries due to impairment.

There is also a page here that discusses two different government estimates on what is a "lethal" dose of marijuana (in one smoking session).

Study one says "one-third your body weight"
Study two says "1,500 pounds"

Either way, that's a bunch of weed!

Now I'm not going to bet my life on the veracity either of these web postings, but I also haven't seen any official posts by the surgeon general stating otherwise.
Source(s):
http://paranoia.lycaeum.org/marijuana/facts/mj-health-mythology.html
http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/library/mj_overdose.htm

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You are not going to find a direct death from overconsumption of cannabis because it is virtually non-toxic. According to the classic government study:

"In summary, enormous doses of Delta 9 THC, All THC and concentrated marihuana extract ingested by mouth were unable to produce death or organ pathology in large mammals but did produce fatalities in smaller rodents due to profound central nervous system depression.

The non-fatal consumption of 3000 mg/kg A THC by the dog and monkey would be comparable to a 154-pound human eating approximately 46 pounds (21 kilograms) of 1%-marihuana or 10 pounds of 5% hashish at one time. In addition, 92 mg/kg THC intravenously produced no fatalities in monkeys. These doses would be comparable to a 154-pound human smoking at one time almost three pounds (1.28 kg) of 1%-marihuana or 250,000 times the usual smoked dose and over a million times the minimal effective dose assuming 50% destruction of the THC by smoking.

Thus, evidence from animal studies and human case reports appears to indicate that the ratio of lethal dose to effective dose is quite large. This ratio is much more favorable than that of many other common psychoactive agents including alcohol and barbiturates (Phillips et al. 1971, Brill et al. 1970)."
http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/library/studies/nc/ncmenu.htm

In other words, even somehow swallowing 10 lbs of hash wouldn't kill you. Poisoning from cannabis is impractical.

However, this does not relate directly to why the drug is illegal. The government has always felt that the drug increases anti-social behavior. The argument has always been pretty thin. However, there have been some recent studies showing that continued use of strong cannabis can cause or make worse some psychopathic conditions.

That smoking is bad for your lungs is true of all type of smoking. Although some juries have declared that cannabis causes driving accidents, scientists have not been able to prove that at all - it seems to impair less than many other things.

It is pretty clear that the main cause of death related to cannabis is violent crime among dealers and smugglers, which is actually a side effect of making it illegal.
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The only way marijuana has ever killed someone is by contributing to pulmonary illness, which is because it is smoked traditionally. It is the smoke that has all the harmful chemicals in it, like carbon monoxide and carcinogens, which is also what makes cigarettes so bad for you. However, one does not have to consume it in the traditional fashion. In some countries, it is used as an herb in cooking because of it's aroma and flavor. When people call it "herb," they are not joking. It actually is an herb that America has demonized as being this horrible thing that's killing our kids. Nothing could be further from the truth. You can also make a tea out of it and have a tasty beverage. You can also consume it using a vaporizer, which is quickly becoming the method of choice these days. It converts the marijuana into harmless water vapor that, when inhaled, gives the same effects as smoking it, but with no tar, no carcinogens, no carbon monoxide, etc.

There have been no deaths caused directly by marijuana. It was demonized for many reasons, but the reason it is still being demonized is because the pharmaceutical companies know it will help an awful lot of people for free, since it can be used directly off the plant and needs no processing to become usable. The pharmaceutical companies will be losing billions if it ever becomes completely legal. Those who suffer from depression, anxiety, insomnia, chronic nausea, eating disorders, and many more would be helped and would be able to grow it and use it as they see fit instead of spending thousands of dollars going to the doctor and then hitting the pharmacies to get the drugs prescribed, which are by far the most harmful drugs man has seen yet. Just look at Ambien and all those people who have been running around sleep walking, sleep driving, etc in blackouts completely unaware of what they did or where they went the next morning, only to find out they had a car accident and killed someone. Yes, it has happened, but you don't see Ambien being taken off the market, do you? Want to talk about dangerous? Those drugs are dangerous.
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I think there was at least one dead guy. Here he is talking about it:
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This is a loaded question. The attached site shows how three adolesants died from marijuana smoking. The subsequent cause of there deaths were a direct result of smoking. In other words, had they not smoked they would not have died. People seem to be throwing in caveats and a play on words to show how they are not directly corrolated. But thats like someone saying a person who smokes for 20 years and dies of throat cancer didnt die from smoking, they died from cancer.....The fact is, if they hadn't done the smoking the would not have died the way they did.

http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/cgi/content/full/113/4/e365

Also there is no way to know how many people have developed lung cancer/throat cancer much like cig smokers do.
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I haven't seen Doug Benson's Super High Me, but I understand he tries to smoke an absurd amount of marijuana in it.

He talked about it on episode two of Kevin Pollak's Chat Show
http://kevinpollakschatshow.com/all-episodes/
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yo jason,
too many expertises circle the world about ganja, some say its a herb that cures, some say its toxic and it injures your psyche and body and the hole holistic self. but what doesnt. bob marley died from loungcancer, michael jackson was poisened, haille selassi got shot, and jesus was nailed on the cross. the most dangerous substance i know is made out of 98% water - guess which spezie that is :-)
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When you smoke marijuana, you are ingesting a poison, just like smoking cigarettes, drinking alcohol and even caffeinated drinks.

But where as the average smoker may inhale smoke, I don't know, 100 times a day, the average marijuana smoker may only inhale 1 - 5 times a day.

So obviously, if you are consuming much less poison each day, the ramifications are going to be much less.

Don't think you are immune to cancer and other health related issues when you are ingesting a poison over time. It may be slow, and you may never notice, but it definitely doesn't help your body.

It only makes sense that if you inhale smoke of any kind long enough, it is only going to hurt you.

Whether we can ever attribute it as the sole cause of death is doubtful - but that doesn't mean it is safe or good for you.
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If a person kills another person because he needs to get money to buy marihuana, that death is directly attributed to marihuana.
That is just my opinion.
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There has never been a death 'directly' connected to smoking marijuana, there have been deaths indirectly connected to marijuana.
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I am a retired medical examiner

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