Current Events > THC overdose: Has First Death From Marijuana Exposure Been Recorded?

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A coroner's investigation into the death of a Louisiana woman found she died from a THC overdose in what appears to be the first recorded death from marijuana use in the United States.

According to the New Orleans Advocate, Coroner Christy Montegut has outlined how he believes a 39-year-old woman, discovered dead in her apartment, died from vaping THC oil. THC, the acronym for tetrahydrocannabinol, is the psychoactive compound in cannabis.

Montegut, who has served in his post since 1988, believes the case is the first recorded of its kind. While deaths involving marijuana have been recorded in the past, the coroner said he was unaware of any instances where THC was the sole drug that had contributed to a death.

"It looked like it was all THC because her autopsy showed no physical disease or afflictions that were the cause of death. There was nothing else identified in the toxicologyno other drugs, no alcohol," Montegut said. "There was nothing else."

Marijuana plants
Illustrative: A picture taken on June 5, 2019 shows female cannabis plants in a grow room at the "Hemp Embassy."
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The National Center for Biotechnology Information, a branch of the National Institute of Health, said prior to news of the recent death in Louisiana, there had been "no known cases of fatal overdose from cannabis use in the epidemiologic literature."

However, medical and science experts have been quick to cast doubt on the claims out of Louisiana. Keith Humphreys, a former senior policy adviser at the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy, has said if it were possible for humans to consume THC at levels that made overdosing possible, there would be far more recorded deaths each year.

"We know from really good survey data that Americans use cannabis products billions of times a year, collectively. Not millions of times, but billions of times a year," the policy adviser said. "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."

Bernard Le Foll, a professor at the University of Toronto who studies addiction has said the levels of THC in the woman's system at the time of her death were insufficient to amount to a fatal dose. In the past it has been estimated an individual would have to smoke 2,000 joints to ingest a lethal amount of THC. The professor described the levels of THC in the woman's system as "not very high."

Montegut has said the woman was likely smoking the cannabis oil in highly concentrated form. "I'm thinking this lady must have vaped this THC oil and got a high level in her system and [it] made her stop breathing, like a respiratory failure," he said.

https://www.newsweek.com/thc-overdose-death-marijuana-exposure-united-states-1442742
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You can overdose on anything.
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piUrsEitanizm posted...

THC in the woman's system at the time of her death were insufficient to amount to a fatal dose

i think we are done here
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This has been claimed by coroners before, then denunked.
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Tyranthraxus posted...

You can overdose on anything.

This. You can overdose on water.
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Superlinkbro posted...

Tyranthraxus posted...

You can overdose on anything.

This. You can overdose on water.

We literally had water overdoses before THC
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Superlinkbro posted...

Tyranthraxus posted...

You can overdose on anything.

This. You can overdose on water.

...or oxygen.

Oh no those horrible marijuanas
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THC can't kill you but it sure as hell can make you feel like you're dying
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i cant wait for the inevitable shitpost about how weed should be illegal again
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CE_gonna_CE posted...

Oh no those horrible marijuanas

They are. First time marijuana injections are also typically the last for the weak and unlucky :'(
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Worst case scenario you have a 1 in many billions
chance of dying of THC overdose.
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Zangulus posted...

Bernard Le Foll, a professor at the University of Toronto who studies addiction has said the levels of THC in the woman's system at the time of her death were insufficient to amount to a fatal dose. In the past it has been estimated an individual would have to smoke 2,000 joints to ingest a lethal amount of THC. The professor described the levels of THC in the woman's system as "not very high."

So, as per usual, the answer is fucking no. She did not overdose from THC.

Fucking get tired of these quacks that keep trying to make this claim because they couldnt find anything else.

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Jiek_Fafn posted...

Worst case scenario you have a 1 in many billions
chance of dying of THC overdose.

Meanwhile Lil Pump gets hospitalized for eating too many cheetos
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Jagr_68 posted...

CE_gonna_CE posted...

Oh no those horrible marijuanas

They are. First time marijuana injections are also typically the last for the weak and unlucky :'(

You hit the wrong vein and poof, youre dead. Ban it all.
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IMO it's much more likely she was harmed by whatever chemicals were in the vape oil that killed her. that shit is not regulated or controlled at all and is made with semi-toxic chemicals like butane. if the process isn't done properly/cleanly there can definitely be residual contaminants.
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piUrsEitanizm posted...

Marijuana plants
Illustrative: A picture taken on June 5, 2019 shows female cannabis plants in a grow room at the "Hemp Embassy."

*touches self*
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Let's not forget there are some chemicals they can't find even in advanced toxicology reports
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YukihoHagiwara posted...

My friend goes by Hal and I sent this to him.
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Lost_All_Senses posted...

YukihoHagiwara posted...

My friend goes by Hal and I sent this to him.

wow I didn't know solid snak goes on gamfaqs
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YukihoHagiwara posted...

Lost_All_Senses posted...

YukihoHagiwara posted...

My friend goes by Hal and I sent this to him.

wow I didn't know solid snak goes on gamfaqs

Hal can have more than one friend bruh. I only met Snake once. Can confirm he is solid...real solid
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Lost_All_Senses posted...

YukihoHagiwara posted...

Lost_All_Senses posted...

YukihoHagiwara posted...

My friend goes by Hal and I sent this to him.

wow I didn't know solid snak goes on gamfaqs

Hal can have more than one friend bruh. I only met Snake once. Can confirm he is solid...real solid

wow I didn't know mei ling posts on gamfaqs
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I need to know how much she smoked

Sheesh

Was she going for some kind of world record?
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gna647 posted...

I need to know how much she smoked

Sheesh

Was she going for some kind of world record?

YukihoHagiwara posted...

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She'd have to literally smoke her weight in smoke, pretty sure you'd die from smoke inhalation before that. Maybe she was coughing so hard / much her heart stopped.
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spudger posted...

piUrsEitanizm posted...

THC in the woman's system at the time of her death were insufficient to amount to a fatal dose

i think we are done here