overdose?

so i was reading this book called "Reefer Madness" by eric schlosser, and in his book he states that to overdose on marijuana.. one would have to smoke 100 pounds a minute for 15 minutes.
i was thinking about that. you'd have to inhale more than a pound and a half of weed smoke a second for that to be possible.

yet if you eat a pack of cigarettes you will probably die.

something is seriously screwed up here.

 

i know im gonna get shit on for this but to be honest with youi think that with the strenght and potency of todays weed and the fact that most mix it with tobacco is gonna cause some of the first weed overdoses of our time. i dont mean that weed will literally kill the person for no reason i mean with the amount of strong weed most stoners like i smoke a day our lungs are gonna get totally fucked just as bad as cigarette smokers and will cause the same deaths as cigarette smokers. its only normal when you think about it unless your a light weed smoker 1-2 joints a day just like we have light cigarette smokers. sorry folks but its just my 2 cents.........and now flamers do your job.

 

Dr Reefer, hopefully no one will flame you, at least I hope not. That being said, to the person who manages to smoke that 100 lbs ofmarijuana in 15 minutes and overdoses, well they had it coming. It's impossible to do that anyway so it's a null point.

 

Weed overdoses, or just later deaths from the effects of smoke inhaling? There is a big difference. It is impossible to have a fatal overdose from smoking weed, you'd pass out long before you could ever inhale that much smoke. But a heavy smoker had a decent shot at getting lung/mouth/throat cancer, though not as high as a tobacco smoker (thanks to all the additive chemicals). No one is denying that inhaling smoke is bad for you.

By the way, they had strong weed all along, ask an old hippie, but the way the DEA tested for potency back in the day was not effective, they used low quality stuff and lots of leaves and stems. This is known but they still use this line of "reasoning" for the propoganda value. Second, better weed means you smoke less to get stoned, meaning less smoke is in your lungs; making potent weed healthier for you.

 

dude you dont smoke that much. I easily smoke 10x more than that in about 5 mins

 

i thought it was 100 grams a minute for 15 minutes straight? hmmm. anyways if you were able to pull off that much you wouldnt die fromt he weed youd die from lack of oxygen(youd probably die from lack of oxy long before you got to that point anyways)

 

And that would be true if it were like that with me and mostly everyone down in montreal, but it isnt dude, we get some reallly good buds up here, dont know if youve ever heard of ''québec gold'' but its known as montreals finest export. Full of crystals, red hairs solid light green to midlight green nugs the wholle works for example and plenty of other great stuff , dont mean to brag but if you came up hear and met some stoners, youd be thinking the same, and ya anyway me and my group of friends smoke in big sessions with lots of blunts and joints many times throughout a good day and many other people we all know are the same way.

 

do you think it would be possable to die from a thc overdoes from hash.
because it takes a lot less smoking to get high from hash as it does with plant material.

what about a thc overdoes from eating/drinking marijuana confections

 

Well it's not my fault that you are all idiots and like to waste weed. Here's an idea, why not skip right to the source, and burn your money?

 

dude calm down im not saying we do this everyday, cuz obviously we all have other important shit like work and school to take care of during the week, exept me at the moment with the pnemonia going on so i cant do either till im completely back to normal, but anyway, big smokeout sessions is more of a weekend thing. you cant say you dont enjoy a good cuople of doobs with your buds throughout the day

 

I can because I don't do that. I smoke enough to get high then stop.

 

thats what i do when im by myself. If im with friends though i usually hit it as its passed around seeing as i get higher long before they do.

 

haha it's funny how u brag about quebec weed. My buddy who used to live in BC now is going to school at Bishops in quebec. While he had been there he said he was smoking some "killer" quebec bud. The night he came back to BC we smoked him up with 2 fat joints and he said he was more ripped off those 2, then he had EVER been off any quebec weed.


Anyways, back on topic there is no possible way to smoke that much weed in 15 minutes. Also how does he figure those figures are right? it would depened on so many factors like lung capacity etc. Smoking 100 pounds of ANYTHING in 15 minutes is going to kill u, so it doesnt really take a brain surgeon to tell you that.

 

ohh i got nothing to say against B.C weed seeing as how i tried some good buds from there myself, i know i said quebec weed is strong and fucking good which it is, but B.C weed definetly does knock you way on your ass more than most of the stuff we get up here.

 

I dont believe there has been a case of a marijuana smoker getting cancer from smoking weed all the time (unless they also smoked ltos of cigarettes). Because.. like, ever never seen anywhere, any statistics with the amount of cancers in the context of weed.. only cigarettes. anti drugs sites only say that it can cause cancer. Can someone please find me a case where someone whos smoked copious amounts of marijuana, but not lots of cigarettes, has got cancer?

And DR reefer, by your logic, your smoking weed to reach a quota of weed smoked, and not to get a certain amoutn high.

while people may do it like that where your from, most people, when they get killer bud, are happy that it will last longer with a better high, not that theyll get extra fucked from smoking the same amount of weed.

in fact, ive found that respiratory problems from smoking green weed are minimal, most problems come from mixing with tobacco


if you mixed your weed with tobacco.. you could die from a nicotine overdose, if you smoked too much and forgot that your smoking equal amounts of unfiltered tobacco. but youd need to smoke heaps caus like, people dont often die from chain smoking one day

 

lol how bout the original stoner himself? bob marley

 

yea i live on the bc alberta boarder....well close and most of the weed we smoke is bc hydro. i agree that the weed today is way better then the weed my parents smoked back in the day... but theres still not as many additives as there are in cigs

 

what about him digital? are you suggesting his toe cancer was caused by smoking weed? hahah

 

if we were all to live long enough everyone will die of cancer....every one has the cells in them...its just if u live long enough for them to develop. some people die of heartattacks befor then...some people it grows in them really young. but we all have it in us

 

Think he was talking about lung cancer....