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Consuming anything with a sort of deadly, self-destructive intent can lead to death, one way or another. But I'm sorry, if you're going for an LD50 experience

by cnp 12y ago

Consuming anything with a sort of deadly, self-destructive intent can lead to death, one way or another. But I'm sorry, if you're going for an LD50 experience with weed, you're not going to get there --ever. Its just not possible unless you've created a medical experiment designed to kill the subject, and to get to that place I'm quite certain additional drugs would be required. Another fruitful Google search: https://www.google.com/search?q=ld50+marijuana https://www.google.com/search?q=ld50+marijuana

benologist 12y ago
Innovators and inventors are being empowered by new and changing laws. Someone will invent something more potent than vaporizers until it too is replaced by something more potent. The only reason it hasn't already happened to weed is laws inhibited serious efforts and it came in a naturally consumable form that was good enough.
- anextio 12y ago
  > more potent than vaporizers It's not the method, it's the toxicity of the chemical itself. As others have mentioned, regardless of the method of extraction, purification, or intake, this does not change the ridiculous amount that would have to be pumped into the blood in order to kill someone. Cannabinoids do not affect the brain stem, the primitive part of the brain that controls respiration and the heart. Many other drug overdoses are affected through this avenue. Cannabis does not and cannot. You would have to adulterate it with another drug, in which case, it is a different discussion.
  - benologist 12y ago
    > it is a different discussion. This isn't a discussion about how far "pure weed" can get you, it's about what's going to happen now that the laws don't deter people from applying technology and science to weed, and whether a 'fatal dose' is just a limitation of the literally stone-age techniques we currently use to consume stone-age quantities of weed in its basic plant form.
- cnp 12y ago
  Not to sound like an ass (seriously, excuse me), but you apparently are not familiar with the effects of marijuana on the body and do not understand what you're talking about. You cannot get to that place, period. One super high dose of hash oil would knock you completely out, and we all know the story of that poor soul who ate the dense weed brownie unknowingly. You cannot just keep consuming THC in a recreational way that would kill you directly.
  - benologist 12y ago
    We still work directly or in the case of wax just one short step from actual flowers cut fairly fresh from a plant. This is not as good as weed can be, it's just a starting state that was artificially enforced by laws. Technology and science enhances everything by default. The exceptions are rare, and weed will not be one.

by cnp 12y ago

benologist 12y ago

Innovators and inventors are being empowered by new and changing laws. Someone will invent something more potent than vaporizers until it too is replaced by something more potent. The only reason it hasn't already happened to weed is laws inhibited serious efforts and it came in a naturally consumable form that was good enough.

anextio 12y ago
> more potent than vaporizers It's not the method, it's the toxicity of the chemical itself. As others have mentioned, regardless of the method of extraction, purification, or intake, this does not change the ridiculous amount that would have to be pumped into the blood in order to kill someone. Cannabinoids do not affect the brain stem, the primitive part of the brain that controls respiration and the heart. Many other drug overdoses are affected through this avenue. Cannabis does not and cannot. You would have to adulterate it with another drug, in which case, it is a different discussion.
- benologist 12y ago
  > it is a different discussion. This isn't a discussion about how far "pure weed" can get you, it's about what's going to happen now that the laws don't deter people from applying technology and science to weed, and whether a 'fatal dose' is just a limitation of the literally stone-age techniques we currently use to consume stone-age quantities of weed in its basic plant form.
cnp 12y ago
Not to sound like an ass (seriously, excuse me), but you apparently are not familiar with the effects of marijuana on the body and do not understand what you're talking about. You cannot get to that place, period. One super high dose of hash oil would knock you completely out, and we all know the story of that poor soul who ate the dense weed brownie unknowingly. You cannot just keep consuming THC in a recreational way that would kill you directly.
- benologist 12y ago
  We still work directly or in the case of wax just one short step from actual flowers cut fairly fresh from a plant. This is not as good as weed can be, it's just a starting state that was artificially enforced by laws. Technology and science enhances everything by default. The exceptions are rare, and weed will not be one.