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A "lethal" dosage of THC would require a blood transfusion - literally replacing your blood with THC until you asphyxiated. I've heard the LD50 (the lethal dosa

• benologist 12y ago
  That is true with today's weed and today's consumption technology. But that is also very shortsighted. We know that technology, along with research, have proven very beneficial for devising better drugs, better ways to consume drugs, and better ways to produce drugs. We know that already the concept of rolling up dead flowers to smoke has been superseded by vaporizers delivering 5 - 10 times more potency without all the smoke. We know that weed has been excluded from even basic studies, leaving much to be explored and much to learn. Alongside the studies that have not been done lies innovations and technological and scientific enhancements that have not been invented yet. There is no reason to assume we can only ever consume very tiny volumes of weed with fire, like our ancestors 700 generations ago.
  • techpeace 12y ago
    I think labelling me as "very short-sighted" because we might one day, in the future, hypothetically reach THC intake levels that are considered lethal is a bit much. We aren't there yet, and even with the technologies you mentioned, we aren't even close. You would need to ingest a third your bodyweight (conservatively) all at once to kill yourself[1]. Physiologically, you would lose motor function long before you were able to kill yourself. So maybe in 2056 if somebody produces a machine that lets you take in 50kg of THC in a single hit, don't use it. [1]: http://druglibrary.org/schaffer/library/mj_overdose.htm http://druglibrary.org/schaffer/library/mj_overdose.htm