lonesomewolf ([info]lonesomewolf) wrote in [info]marijuana,
@ 2006-06-25 19:33:00
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death by drugs, but not by marijuana...
Annual American deaths from:
Tobacco-400,000
Alcohol-100,000
All Legal Drugs-20,000
All Illegal Drugs-15,000
Caffeine-2,000
Aspirin-500
Marijuana-0

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[info]little_shaman
2006-06-26 04:49 pm UTC (link)
Anyway you could provide the source information for this data?

Thank you so very much for sharing!

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Certainly...
[info]lonesomewolf
2006-06-26 06:37 pm UTC (link)
Common Sense for Drug Policy Presents The Facts:
Annual Causes of Deaths in the
US
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****An exhaustive search of the literature finds no credible reports of deaths induced by marijuana. The US Drug Abuse Warning Network (DAWN) records instances of drug mentions in medical examiners’ reports, and though marijuana is mentioned, it is usually in combination with alcohol or other drugs.

******Marijuana alone has not been shown conclusively to cause an overdose death. Sources: Drug Abuse Warning Network (DAWN), available on the web at http://www.samhsa.gov/ ; also see JanetE. Joy, Stanley J. Watson, Jr., and John A Benson, Jr., Marijuana and Medicine: Assessing the Science Base. Division of Neuroscience and Behavioral Research, Institute of Medicine (Washington, DC:
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Common Sense for Drug Policy Presents The Facts: Annual Causes of Deaths in the US National Academy Press, 1999, available on the web at http://www.nap.edu/html/marimed/ ; and US Department of Justice, Drug Enforcement Administration, “In the Matter of Marijuana Rescheduling Petition” (Docket #86-22), September 6, 1988, p. 57.

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Re: Certainly...
[info]little_shaman
2006-06-27 07:04 pm UTC (link)
Great - thank you!

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daffyjournale
2006-06-26 08:05 pm UTC (link)
hey!IRE man! i´m in 100% OF MARIJUANA LEGALIZATION, well though i havenot written any enty bout' mary i my lJ y have created a comunity! well please reply this coment as fast as you can well y created the comunity yesterday jejeje,but please y havent any member on it (shit) oooh another thing
im mexican but y talk good english or what ever the name of the comunyti is THC Ganja Inc. and so my journal is in spanish, well theres no problem? ok, cya.


Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith

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[info]_jamez_
2006-06-26 11:03 pm UTC (link)
How can the 'All Legal Drugs' only be 20,000 if Tobacco and Alcohol are 500,000 combined?

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[info]lonesomewolf
2006-06-26 11:35 pm UTC (link)
I could be wrong, but I believe "all legal drugs" is referring to legally prescribed drugs, which wouldn't include alcohol, tobacco or caffine and asprine. Check out the whole document and the cited sources to search for the correct answer to that.

Cheers -

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[info]lumacent
2006-12-05 06:30 am UTC (link)
yeah that'd be my guess too.
like nyquil and such

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[info]myke_0
2006-06-30 06:23 am UTC (link)
yeah thanks for sharing something we already knew about.

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[info]lonesomewolf
2006-07-01 02:24 pm UTC (link)
you're welcome - keep up the rudeness, it works good for you, fits

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[info]myke_0
2006-07-01 05:59 pm UTC (link)
k

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[info]lumacent
2006-12-05 06:31 am UTC (link)
what an ass.

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[info]gingerdevotion
2007-04-28 04:27 pm UTC (link)
Love this!
Totally great!

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[info]sandra_evans
2008-02-27 11:27 pm UTC (link)
Every drug should be legal.

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