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Old Aug 11, 2009 | 8:00 am
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pmocek
 
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Originally Posted by LHR/MEL/Europe FF
Originally Posted by wildcatlh
Wait, marijuana? really?

Nobody has ever. Ever. EVER. EVER EVER EVER. EVER! died as a direct result of marijuana. Google "Harry Anslinger" to read about the odious human being that is the reason that marijuana is illegal. It's far less harmful than alcohol even. Yeesh.
how do you attribute a car driver who is high wrapping themselves around a power pole and dying? Not a result of marijuana?
Not directly, no. The death would be a result of physical impact. Marijuana doesn't tend to make people drift off to sleep like alcohol does, so this isn't likely. Regardless, if you think such an incident would indicate that people have died as a direct result of marijuana, then you must think that marijuana's danger is in the class of that of sleepiness, which certainly does cause people to drive into stationary objects and die. Would you say that anyone has ever died as a direct result of being sleepy?

Originally Posted by secretbunnyboy
Not a direct result of marijuana, no. Same way we say a drunk driver is killed by the crash, not the alcohol.
Remember that alcohol kills people directly, without the aid of cars. The ratio of effective dose to lethal dose of alcohol is small. There is no lethal dose of the psychoactive components of the cannabis plant.

Last edited by pmocek; Aug 11, 2009 at 8:05 am Reason: fix grammar: add comma
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