cannabis isn't lethal (unless you consume 40+ pounds all at once...)


	cannabis isn't lethal (unless you consume 40+ pounds all at once...)

Lexica

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/466ff9fa-5dd8-40c9-8c2c-465b6770e5b7/93DFFA1E-5B6E-404E-A669-632F39C0D8F6/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/library/mj_overdose.htm" href="http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/library/mj_overdose.htm" style="font-size: 11px;">www.druglibrary.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/library/mj_overdose.htm"><H1>What is the lethal dose of marijuana? </H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/library/mj_overdose.htm"><P>According to which US Government authority you want to believe, the lethal
dose of marijuana is either about one-third your body weight, or about 1,500
pounds, consumed all at once. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/library/mj_overdose.htm"><P>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. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/library/mj_overdose.htm">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</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/93DFFA1E-5B6E-404E-A669-632F39C0D8F6/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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