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Darkrobotisback posted...

Or so people claim.
A lot of stuff these days are hush hushed.
I wouldn't be surprised if people died from Cannibis, but either the hospital or government swept it under the rug so that way the legalization of Weed can continue and whatnot!

I mean, we know you're trolling and everything, but the sad fact is that there are actually idiots out there who do believe that. And that hurts a little inside. ;_;

Just as an interesting anecdote to add to this conversation, I had to take a public speaking elective course in college, and one of our assignments was a 1-on-1 debate with a classmate. I got selected to the marijuana debate (which I didn't complain about) and in prepping for it I dug into a bunch of those old studies from the 70's that compared pot smoking to cigarettes in terms of health effects.

Without exception, every single study I could find from that time was specifically and blatantly designed with the active intent to make weed appear worse. One of the most ridiculous was a study on lab mice in which they injected the mice with pure THC several times a day in what they claimed was the "equivalent of a habitual marijuana user." What that really meant was that they dosed the mice 5 times a day, claiming habitual users would smoke 5 times a day. Of course the mice all died horrifically and with rather unpleasant symptoms. However, they neglected to mention that while the NUMBER of doses was the same as a habitual pot smoker, the LEVELS of each dose were just stupendously crazy. In pure THC, the mice were given the equivalent of a human being smoking over 200 pounds of marijuana in one sitting, and they were given that 5 times a day.

Just sit back for a second and try to imagine smoking half of a literal ton of pot in a single day. The fact that many of the mice even lived for SEVERAL DAYS OF THIS DOSING speaks volumes, tbh.
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