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Non Gaming Discussions => Off-Topic => Topic started by: Ace on January 20, 2004, 06:07:07 AM
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I bet they find another reason.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/01/20/ncann20.xml&sSheet=/portal/2004/01/20/ixportal.html
Cannabis is blamed as cause of man\'s death
By Richard Savill
(Filed: 20/01/2004)
A man of 36 is believed to have become the first person in Britain to die directly from cannabis poisoning.
Lee Maisey smoked six cannabis cigarettes a day for 11 years, an inquest heard. His death, which was registered as having been caused by cannabis toxicity, led to new warnings about the drug, which is due to be reclassified this month as a less dangerous one.
"This type of death is extremely rare," Prof John Henry, a toxicologist at Imperial College, London, said after the inquest at Haverfordwest, west Wales.
"I have not seen anything like this before. It corrects the argument that cannabis cannot kill anybody."
The inquest heard that Mr Maisey had complained of a headache on Aug 22 last year. Next morning he was found dead at the house he shared with a friend, Jeffrey Saunders, in Summerhill, Pembrokeshire.
Michael Howells, the Pembrokeshire coroner, said Mr Maisey was free from disease and had not drunk alcohol for at least 48 hours. Post-mortem tests showed a high level of cannabinoids in his blood.
He recorded a verdict of death by misadventure because Mr Maisey had died while taking part in an illegal activity. The death led to a warning about the changing strength of cannabis, which is to be reduced to a Class C drug on Jan 29.
Dr Philip Guy, a lecturer in addictions at the University of Hull, said: "Cannabis is not the nice hippy drug it used to be. It has been experimented with to produce stronger varieties."
Dr Guy said that death was more likely if users ate the drug rather than smoked it. "I would not be surprised if in this case the deceased had ingested a fatal amount of cannabis."
Last autumn police issued a warning that big consignments of strong cannabis were being smuggled in from Africa. On Jan 29, cannabis will be reclassified from a class B to a class C drug.
The shadow home secretary, David Davis, said last night: "This highlights what we have been saying about the effects of cannabis all along. When will people wake up to the fact that cannabis can be a harmful drug?
"By reclassifying the drug David Blunkett has shown he has lost the war on drugs. In my eyes, it\'s nothing more than an admission of failure."
Tristan Millington-Drake, the chief executive of the Chemical Dependency Centre, a charity that provides treatment for people with drug problems, said: "We have always taken the view that cannabis is an addictive drug, unlike the pedlars who try to persuade us that it is harmless. The Government\'s decision to reclassify cannabis is a mistake."
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It took 11 years to kill him? Lightweight.....alcohol poisoning can do it in one night.
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Reclassfying it after it took 11 years to kill a man that smoked stupid amounts of pot.
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Why can\'t we delete accidental double post?
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Originally posted by Bozco
Why can\'t we delete accidental double post?
Shhh don\'t knock it... that "accidental double post" gave you +1 to yur post count ;).
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Cigarettes can kill you in less time than that.
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man... I used to smoke soooo much pot, but as of now I haven\'t had a puff in over a year. It was fun while it lasted, but I just reached a place in life where it starting getting in the way.
This is the first time i\'ve ever heard of someone who died from smoking too much. It\'s never happend before.
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Originally posted by Bozco
Reclassfying it after it took 11 years to kill a man that smoked stupid amounts of pot.
It\'s convenient that this just happened before the reclassification. I wonder.....is the cotton industry still that greedy that they\'d set this up?
If you all don\'t know the history of hemp vs cotton....ya\'ll need to git wit it.
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Damn, this retard becomes famous for smoking weed. Oh well, that\'s in the UK.. So that means there\'s still a spot open in the states. Know what that means, I gotta triple up on my dosage to reach sweet sweet death to become famous!! muahahahahahaa
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Apparently it doesnt stop the mass of smokers of cigarettes...
Wont stop me from smoking my stuff.
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meh i used to smoke it a few years back..even then it was once in a blue moon. can\'t be bothered with that stuff now. give me a shot of tequila & a corona over that any day! ;)
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I don\'t know if you guys read the post but it said it\'s worse if you eat it and chances are he ate a lethal amount.
So smoke on and you\'ll be fine. :smokin:
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He smoked 24,090 joints! That\'s insane...
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I don\'t know if you guys read the post but it said it\'s worse if you eat it and chances are he ate a lethal amount.
Only ****ing morons eat it.
Doobies/Joints, and eating are such a waste.
Get a ****ing pipe, or zong.
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Originally posted by (e)
Only ****ing morons eat it.
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So, you eat it, eh?
;)
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I\'ve eaten a few ganja brownies this year :(
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Almost legal in Canada!
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Gotta be all natural. Screw dro etc. Its just a faster process. Aeroponics can be just as potent if not more. I rarely ever smoke anymore and i never did a lot to start off with. go me
6 joints a day every day is nuts
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Well I remember in the summer buying an 1/2 pound with my friends. It was Shwag (sp?) though..
We went to an abandonded house and just smoked it all in about 12 hours. Man, That was terrible. Especially sinced I mixed it with some serious muscle relaxants.
I was a blob.
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You smoked 8 oz in 12 hours?
I find that hard to believe,unless there was about 20 people all smoking joints.
What is shwag?
Also what is a Zong?
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Originally posted by (e)
Well I remember in the summer buying an 1/2 pound with my friends. It was Shwag (sp?) though..
We went to an abandonded house and just smoked it all in about 12 hours. Man, That was terrible. Especially sinced I mixed it with some serious muscle relaxants.
I was a blob.
yeah ****ing right :bsflag:
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A half a F***ing pound?! Thats sad. How much did you pay for it? Maybe chicago is expensive but an oz is like close to 100 or so. Then the usual. nik=$5 dime=$10 etc.
Not only that but you sat in an empty house for 12 whole hours smoking. No wonder your brain is fried Spudz. Poor buddy. J/k
Who puts muscle relaxers in their grass? Jebus
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i think he meant a half an oz. theres no way you can smoke a 1/2 a pount in 12hrs unless you did one of these
(https://psx5central.com/community/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.joe-ks.com%2Farchives_aug_2001%2F300Cigarettes.jpg&hash=5e882a783defd88b6c5b48bf886044df9eb4440a)
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I think he meant he was hiding outside the window where the smokers were.
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Its possible.
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Spudz shut the **** up.