“Excessive alcohol use is a leading cause of preventable death. This dangerous behavior accounted for approximately 88,000 deaths per year from 2006–2010, and accounted for 1 in 10 deaths among working-age adults aged 20–64 years.”
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There is a big difference between the long slow slide into death of alcoholism and the rapid sudden death of alcohol poisoning which would be a better comparison to the marijuana deaths.
“There is a big difference between the long slow slide into death of alcoholism and the rapid sudden death of alcohol poisoning which would be a better comparison to the marijuana deaths.”
Actually, quite the opposite. There is not a single recorded fatality from acute marijuana toxicity, so marijuana deaths cannot be compared to alcohol poisoning at all. Every “marijuana death” is actually a “marijuana-related death” if we were to categorize it as alcohol deaths are categorized, because marijuana intoxication is only a contributing factor and not the direct proximate cause of death.