pokalot said:

Last night I was smoking "bud" out of my bubbler pipe and I coughed pretty bad. Then at 4:30 in the morning I woke up and I couldn't breathe at all! Then I starting gaging and choking, so I ran for the phone to call 911. Before I got to the phone, I starting being able to breath again. Then I realized my throat was swollen. Could that have been caused by the bubbler pipe and me coughing? Has anyone had a similar experience?

Pokalot 

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It is generally considered to be impossible to achieve a lethal overdose by smoking cannabis. According to the Merck Index, 12th edition, the LD50, the lethal dose for 50% of rats tested by inhalation, is 42 mg/kg of body weight. That is equivalent of a 165 lb (75 kg) man ingesting all of the THC in 21 one-gram cigarettes of high-potency (15% THC) cannabis buds at once, assuming no THC was lost through burning or exhalation. For oral consumption, the LD50 for rats is 1270 mg/kg and 730 mg/kg for males and females, respectively, equivalent to the THC in about a pound of 15% THC cannabis. Only with intravenous administration — an unheard-of method of use — may such a level be even theoretically possible.[22] Recently though, there have been a few incidents of THC-injections via syringes. All reported cases resulted in short-term paralysis and consuming states of euphoria.

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According to the Merck Index, 12th edition, the LD50, the lethal dose for 50% of rats tested by inhalation, is 42 mg/kg of body weight. That is equivalent of a 165 lb (75 kg) man ingesting all of the THC in 21 one-gram cigarettes of high-potency (15% THC) cannabis buds at once, assuming no THC was lost through burning or exhalation. For oral consumption, the LD50 for rats is 1270 mg/kg and 730 mg/kg for males and females, respectively, equivalent to the THC in about a pound of 15% THC cannabis.

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Outta how many people smoke marijuana it seems pretty likely that at least 1 person would have had a heart attack while smoking weed and died, and at least one person would have had an allergic reaction and died.

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shamantra said:

maybe you havent heard so much

the bruce lee thing is just a myth, noone knows exactly why he died. but that someone has died before from allergic reactions to marijuana is not unlikely

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Wiccan_Seeker said:

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Outta how many people smoke marijuana it seems pretty likely that at least 1 person would have had a heart attack while smoking weed and died, and at least one person would have had an allergic reaction and died.

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Oh they do die, and I don't think a week goes by without someone dying from marijuana. But its not the herb's fault you see: its people with bad hearts, or allergic predispositions, or they were too old or bla or bla or blablablabla.

I've grown to strongly dislike the "harmless weed" mentality, what it tries is to dodge taking responsibility for the risks taken by stating there are no risks at all.

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those sound like all the same problems associated with smoking anything, not just marijuana...

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The "harmless" defense defies common sense and research findings by stating there is *no harm whatsoever* from inhaling cannabis smoke, that its interchangable with air in harmlessless. Never mind that people cough so hard they poo their pants, that's "healthy coughing that rids the lungs of toxic wastes from air pollution"
Riight

By your application of common sense I can see you're not one of the front-line "harmless"-defenders. These people by their leaning on biased 1970s research and defiance of common sense do little more than spread the notion that marijuana brings on delusions, which isnt helping the movement. I'd call it naive, if it wasnt often done with such aggression.

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associated with smoking anything, not just marijuana...

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all the dangers seem easily avoidable by vaporizing or eating it.

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smoke kills, not marijuana...

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kotik said:

shamantra said:

maybe you havent heard so much

the bruce lee thing is just a myth, noone knows exactly why he died. but that someone has died before from allergic reactions to marijuana is not unlikely

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in that case, they would be dying from allergies, not from marijuana.

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