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According to your link,

“We know from really good survey data that Americans use cannabis products billions of times a year, collectively,” Humphreys told Fox5. “So, that means that if the risk of death was one in a million, we would have a couple thousand cannabis overdose deaths a year.”

In response to the reports of the Louisiana woman’s death, the executive director of the UCLA Cannabis Research Initiative told Insider “there is a theoretical THC limit that could lead to an overdose...but it’s basically impossible to consume a level that high.”

“[A] fatal dose of marijuana would require ingestion of fifteen hundred pounds in fifteen minutes — a physical impossibility for any human, even Snoop Dogg,” wrote David Schmader, author of a book about marijuana.

The dead baby you cite had THC in his system but was a victim of neglect.

As the article says, “If the child did indeed die of a THC overdose, it would be one of the first-ever recorded cases. Despite being used by nearly 50 million Americans at least once in 2019, there are no deaths recorded from the overdose of marijuana, according to the Drug Enforcement Agency’s website.

“The National Institute on Drug Abuse echoes this finding, saying there have been no recorded instances of death from marijuana alone.”

As for your other point, smoking fentanyl-laced marijuana is equally lethal as eating fentanyl-laced Rice Krispies. Therefore, we must ban breakfast cereal.

As for your other point, smoking fentanyl-laced marijuana is equally lethal as eating fentanyl-laced Rice Krispies. Therefore, we must ban breakfast cereal.

The lethal half dose (LD50) for THC in humans is approximately 30 mg/kg. This means that approximately 2 grams (.07 ounces) of pure THC has a 50% chance of killing a 150 pound man.

Repeating the false claim that there have never been any deaths from THC overdoses is irresponsible and largely to blame for the increase in deaths from eating substances which contain the drug.

The fact that in most cases the victims had other drugs in their system in addition to THC has more to do with the habits of the typical THC user than safety of using the drug.

You are living in false paradise... the exploding rates of marijuana/THC consumption is a huge factor in the current break down in our society. How many people who have died from fentanyl overdoses were not also THC users. I would guess that the number is so small as to be statistically insignificant.

Marijuana has been easily available in the where I reside with few legal consequences for at least the past 60 years. However, when I first became a firefighter the drug of choice for people living on the street was alcohol. This changed to marijuana during my career and most people would assume from the media coverage and advocates such as yourself that this would be a good thing.

On the contrary "homelessness" along with associated criminal behavior has skyrocketed here and in many other parts of the country. The individuals involved typically have much more serious mental illness problems and are far more violent than we dealt with in the earlier years of my career. This is because marijuana use has a strong correlation with mental illness. The more you use, the more likely it is that you are suffering from serious mental illness.

https://rehabs.com/pro-talk/fatal-marijuana-overdose-is-not-a-myth/

It also has other serious negative consequences on the brain especially in younger users. A "Duke University study showed that people who started smoking marijuana heavily in their teens and had an ongoing marijuana use disorder lost an average of 8 IQ points between ages 13 and 38. The lost mental abilities didn't fully return in those who quit marijuana as adults."

https://nida.nih.gov/publications/drugfacts/cannabis-marijuana

You are spending your time here advocating for a substance that is speeding the decline of our country and causing massive damage to our civilization and especially young people. Unfortunately, the same people who are convinced that it is harmless have been convinced by other bad actors that the real threat is global warming and other idiotic pseudo-science nonsense. It is a topsy turvy world. But regardless, Marijuana has no positive benefit in our society and efforts to promote its use are misguided.