Legalized marijuana

[Dan From Smithville]

To overdose on a substance usually means that there is an intake so large that it is potentially fatal and requires rather urgent hospitalization and specific medical treatment.

Whenever someone is said to have "overdosed", it almost always means that they died as a result.

In that sense, to "overdose" on pot is something very much unheard of.

So if that isn't what you meant by it, I'ld like to know what you meant by it.

May I also remind you that YOU were the one that brought it up, yet you feel like *I* am the one who should clarify? :-S

What I'm generally seeing in the literature I could find is that the lethal concentration of cannabis would require ingesting something on the order of up to several hundred pounds in a very short time. Not something that is physically possible. The general conclusion would that cannabis is a substance of very low acute toxicity.

Of course, individual mileage varies and some individuals may be more susceptible or have contributing conditions that enhance any toxic effects.

 

[Dan From Smithville]

And that is not out yet. The pot that the old guy you referred to in an older post was not smoking "genetically modified" pot. It was from good old fashioned selective breeding.

I was aware of the developmental work, but not of any products currently available.

 

[Subduction Zone]

I'm a cigarette smoker. Disgusting, I know and agree.
I always make a point of moving away a reasonable distance from non-smokers when I light one up, and I will never smoke indoors.

But a "reasonable distance", is a couple meters. Not kilometers.

That sounds reasonable. Maybe a bit further away from outdoor eating establishments, but generally that is reasonable. And I am an ex-smoker that can get very vehement when fools walk into the house smoking.

 

[Subduction Zone]

I was aware of the developmental work, but not of any products currently available.

The linked article said that the product may appear in the third quarter of this year. To me that sounded rather optimistic and it would mean July at the earliest. So no GMO pot yet.

 

[Colt]

Like sugar? Or caffeine?

Yep! Childhood obesity is a national crisis!

 

[TagliatelliMonster]

That sounds reasonable. Maybe a bit further away from outdoor eating establishments, but generally that is reasonable. And I am an ex-smoker that can get very vehement when fools walk into the house smoking.

Even as a smoker, I don't want anyone to smoke inside.
I don't like it. It stings the eyes after a while and the smell gets into your clothes and all.

Even aside from the whole "passive smoking" bit, I think it's just unpleasant in all forms to have smoke-filled rooms.

 

[SkepticThinker]

That sounds reasonable. Maybe a bit further away from outdoor eating establishments, but generally that is reasonable. And I am an ex-smoker that can get very vehement when fools walk into the house smoking.

People still smoke inside their house? Ewwwww

I usually go off by myself as far away as possible from other people when smoking. And if I see children coming toward me or something I'll quickly just put it out. But I don't smoke inside my own house, even in the cold dead of winter. It just stinks and turns everything yellow.