haha, overdose of pot. Funny stuff.

she should marry a colloidal silver overdose dude now , they would look cool together

Unless you are trying to kill yourself the main reason why people overdose is because of substances being unregulated because of the drug war. So because of one overdose they do a drug war sting resulting in 100 more people's lives being messed up. Oh the irony.

since they mentioned the old standby excuse of "gateway drug", but didn't really answer it very well, this is what i've always said in response -

honestly, the opposite is true. if you try pot, and you like it, you're not more likely to try every other illegal drug. you're probably less likely to.
none of the potheads i know bother with any other drugs.

why would you take a chance on far more dangerous, expensive, and addictive substances, when pot is cheap, readily available, non-addictive, and has no risk of overdose?

does enjoying coffee make anyone want to try meth, simply because they're both stimulants?

Yeah legalize it.

It's ridiculous how much money is spent trying to combat a substance that is in more ways than not safer or has greater benefits than alcohol. Estimates vary but most reviews I've seen range the cost of combating such a 'drug' as more than $10 billion per year in the US alone.

Example:
2010 had the US spend $15+ billion at Federal level and another $25+ at state level on the war on drugs.
That's $40 billion that could go towards medical, social, education programs, or even to work towards paying off some depts.

This site's stats seem to be including more than marijuana, but at near the end of April 2012, the total is already over $12 billion, almost 13.
http://www.drugsense.org/cms/wodclock

An estimated 50% give/take of citizens have used or use the substance.

Supply and demand encourage drug syndicates to form and become more ruthless in their enterprises, the prohibition on alcohol is a decent example.

The substance when consumed is significantly safer with heavy machinery like public driving etc than alcohol (not saying that driving stoned should be encouraged, but far less dangerous then alcohol), and it's common place behavioral effects leave the consumer with greater control re social behavior and better rational processing opposed to alcohol when high levels of the substances are compared.
Not trying to smash booze, just highlighting that if 1 is acceptable, then the other dam well should be as well.

Governments allow smoking Tabasco to be legal because of the taxation/financial benefits despite the well known and documented issues with the substance.

The medicinal properties alone should be enough to give the substance leeway that most other recreational drugs wouldn't receive.

Rather than spending money against it, regulating it would make it safer for use while also turning a profit for the government and being legal it could then be taxed to further the financial return.

As far as i know, no one has ever died from an overdose of marijuana.

I personally haven't used it for a few years (save the rare one-off opportunistic occasions) but am a strong advocate that it's a good and/or reasonable substance for personal use.

well to be honest i wanna know if they are commonly used. I just saw this scaremongering report on the news that said that the emergency room is getting a bath salt overdose every night. Is it real?

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^ Auger8

In 2009, Portugal's Decriminalized drugs which Showed a Positive Result 5 years after for deaths from overdoses and the rate of HIV cases. The theory however was to start focusing on treatment and prevention instead of jailing users which would decrease the number of deaths and infections. (& i have not heard Paul make this his standpoint). "Now instead of being put into prison, addicts are going to treatment centers and they're learning how to control their drug usage or getting off drugs entirely," report author Glenn Greenwald said.

Under the Portuguese plan, penalties for people caught dealing and trafficking drugs are unchanged; dealers are still jailed and subjected to fines depending on the crime. But people caught using or possessing small amounts—defined as the amount needed for 10 days of personal use—are brought before what's known as a "Dissuasion Commission," an administrative body created by the 2001 law.

Drug legalization removes all criminal penalties for producing, selling and using drugs; no country has tried it. In contrast, decriminalization, as practiced in Portugal, eliminates jail time for drug users but maintains criminal penalties for dealers. Spain and Italy have also decriminalized personal use of drugs and Mexico's president has proposed doing the same. there is a difference between the two & legalisation of all drugs was not what was done here.

@Stormsinger
You wanted a formal study on Prozac overdose or toxicity
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1586402

plenty more on google, and i don't mean to suggest that fluoride is a drug any more than lead poisoning is a drug.

**edit
Prozac exposure seems to cause phospholipidosis in animal studies. How is this different from F?

I think i'm getting lactose overdose from so much cheese!

My $20 casio keyboard has more complex prerecorded tunes than this one.

Thank god this is "Alternate Reality".

>> ^Phreezdryd:

Can you overdose on vitamin C(ute)?


http://cuteoverload.com

Can you overdose on vitamin C(ute)?

WITH GOOD CAUSE:

On November 21, 1980, the Los Angeles fire department responded to a 911 call from Henley's house. Inside they found an unconscious 16-year-old prostitute who later was determined to have overdosed on cocaine. Henley pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor charge of contributing to the delinquency of a minor and received two years' probation.


There's just not enough love in the world.

>> ^dystopianfuturetoday:

Little known fact: Most cats are allergic to Don Henley.

Yay, thank you! I am excited! And exhausted! I have a serious case of sifting-overdose now

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Galaxy Level!!! Woohoo!!

Can't wait to hear dag's song for you!