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has anyone ever died smoking weed?
i ask this because i've never heard of someone dying because they smoke weed.can someone prove me wromg?
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- 1 decade agoFavorite Answer
NO ONE HAS EVER, OR WILL EVER DIE FROM SMOKING WEED. You may die from something else, WHILE smoking weed. Contrary to popular believe, Marijuana DOES NOT kill brain cells, it DOES NOT destroy organs. THC is the chemical in weed that makes you get the feeling, it has NO negative side effects. Its the only chemical used by the body. Everything else is exhaled. People believe it makes you not think as well, this is simply untrue. People have killed people and killed themselves while high, but this has nothing to do with being high. They would have killed the person or themselves even if they werent high. It does NOT impair the brains ability to do...anything. The people that have killed themselves under the influence of Marijuana, is only because Marijuana makes you feel happy. Many people that commit suicide are depressed, so they smoke weed so they might get happier. Sometimes it helps, and the person rethinks their decision. Sometimes it doesn't...sometimes they dont smoke strong enough, or enough to get "happy enough" not to kill themselves. Marijuana has nothing to do with it. There are ONLY...I MEAN ONLY 2 reasons why Marijuana is outlawed....
1. Just like Moonshine, the United States would not be able to collect taxes on it, for it can be grown virtually anywhere unlike tobacco. Yet there is one company permitted to make moonshine and sell it, they do have to pay taxes on it and they cannot make it more than 50% alcohol.
2. In the early 1900's, Mexicans would come in the united states. Many of them so they could sell their Marijuana easier. This caused violence...fights over sales, robbing sellers, etc. Some guy (I cannot recall his name) didn't like this. So he tried to outlaw it, but he couldn't because it was not "dangerous" enough. The government had nothing against it that would need it to be outlawed. He Started talking about the taxes. The government was listening yet still wasn't very concerned. In the 1930's he started making movies about Marijuana. These movies disgust me. One had a kid in it...He was smoking marijuana. One day he was talking to his mom and his mother saw a joint fall out of his pocket. His mother went to bend down to pick it up, he picked up a knife and stabbed and killed his mother...At the end of the video it was said the only reason he killed his mother is because of the marijuana influenced him. This is ignorant. There are 5-10 movies like this.
You may say...people have died at an early age that are infamous for smoking weed. This is true...but is it ever from smoking weed? no. Most of the time it has to do with alcohol and prescription drug overdose.
To say that Marijuana causes cancers like cigarettes is just plain ignorance. It DOES NOT cause lung cancer. Marijuana smoke does not polute the air...lets give an example. Lets say Marijuana is a big diesel truck, and Tobacco is a small ford. You lock yourself in a garage with the ford running and breath the carbon monoxide, your dead..However, if you do the same with a diesel truck, you would not die.
Marijuana is actually good for you. It cures Glaucoma. It helps with Depression. If you have an eating disorder suck as Anorexia, it will help also, as it makes you a little hungrier. Have trouble sleeping? well It makes you a little sleepy also, but not to a point where you HAVE to sleep. Many people say "oh..well..if your driving a car while under the influence, you will fall asleep and crash" this is simply untrue. You will not fall asleep any easier than you would normally, unless you wanted to. The people that do usually have to sleep really bad anyway. It will not MAKE you go to sleep. It does NOT IN ANY WAY impair your vision, or make it more difficult to drive.
I have friends that say Marijuana saved their lives. One of my friends were going to kill himself. He was very depressed. He was against Marijuana though. I told him to try it before and he said no because he thought it would kill him sooner, but seeing as how he was about to kill himself, he wanted to at least try it before he did. So he did and he got happier and didn't kill himself. He is not depressed anymore.
- Anonymous7 years ago
Completely physically impossible unless you already have an existing serious heart ailment like high blood pressure or are stupid or insane to start with and do something stupid under the influence that kills you. There are no toxic chemicals in weed, in fact, it has a lower toxicity than water. You would have to ingest 1/3 of your body weight in weed before you would die. You could hypothetically, if you have a predisposition to anxiety, get high to the point where you believe you are dying, but to actually die would be impossible. The only negative effect of smoking weed is that if you smoke it constantly and are high all the time you can forget what its like to feel "normal" and have a psychological problem where you feel a bit "off" all the time and be a bit slower than when you felt "normal". I have experienced this in the past when I used to be heavily into it and just stay stoned constantly. However, even this is usually, but not always, temporary.
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- 5 years ago
This is such a lie, many people have died
The harshness of spliff smoke has caused many to choke to death
Many people have overdosed on edibles
Try giving someone with a heart condition an edible who's never had it before, it's a fact their heart rate will speed up very fast and very possibly have a heart attack
The difference between a spliff and a cigerette is so large in terms of harseness, therefore it massively contributes to lung cancer
The reason it's largely reported not to kill is because: yes, weed on its own has never killed, so smoking bongs and vapors is harmless - but edables, lung cancer, stupid driving has killed millions
- Anonymous7 years ago
im not sure, it's a question iv'e been asking myself lately, Smoking cigarretes kill you and you can get lung cancer in just a year of smoking them. Weed is a substance used in hospitals to help people with lung cancer so that's why im unsure.
If you are smoking weed then make sure you don't overdose because I know you can, if you do, you will pass out but not die. Smoking weed effects your lungs when smoking it regularly not because of the substance, but because of the smoke. If you smoke it once a month, iv'e read, can actually improve your lung capacity.
- Anonymous8 years ago
See if the weed it self is pure. No you cannot die from smoking once. However, pot is grown illegally, thus, nothing is stopping the producers from sticking any other material which might harm you. I tell you this from personal experience... I had a friend who smoked pot once and got into a comma and died. Later the doctors said that there was something else inside the weed which caused this, and if anyone else had smoked it chances are they would have been in the same position. So yes, smoking pot can potentially kill you.
The same thing goes for any other drug, like cocaine, and crystal meth. Sometimes people smuggling the drugs might mix them with something else in order to throw off police. This my friend I think is enough reason to not smoke pot unless you grow it yourself.
P.S. The provider for the girl who died was well known for selling quality material. So don't think that because you have a good provider something else will not be in the drug.
- 7 years ago
You guys are all ******* morons... Bruce Lee died from smoking weed. But i am pretty sure he's the only one. but he wasn't human
as for the quote that said "Dr. Jack Shepard, chief of surgery at St. Luke's Medical Center in Denver" about 37 people dying from OD in colorado- Dr. Jack Shepard Chief of surgery is from the TV show Lost.
- Anonymous7 years ago
No one HAS EVER and NO ONE WILL.
But, nowaday, you know, many countries having a drug test include weed, and they call it's illegal drug.
Therefor, i think, it's better for you to throw weed from your mind.
See the link in the source to know how long does it stay to your system, and you will find out some negative affection.
- 7 years ago
Nope! In order to overdose on marijuana you must smoke 15% of your body weight in less than 15 min which is physically impossible. For example, If somebody weight 140 and must smoke 15% of their body weight and one pound of weed costs around 2,000 its gonna be a SUPER hard task.
Source(s): Experienced cali pot smoker - 6 years ago
No, I don't think that anyone has ever died smoking the GanjaPot TokeGrass before.