wtf! what does a guy have to do to get arrested around here?

stupid cop, thinks he can die of marijuana "overdose"

exactly biznichi. why didn't the 911 operator just tell him it was impossible to overdose on marijuana and to quit freaking out? and then call the cops of course. really, if you are stupid enough to do drugs and then call the cops to report yourself, you should be in jail because you're ignorance and stupidity are a threat to society.

He felt like he was dying to the point of being convinced it was true, there's a difference. It's a common side-effect for first time users of psychoactive drugs to irrationally panic. Knowing the drug may be harmless can have little effect on how the symptoms manifest themselves to each user...

He was not a first time user, the full audio clip clarifies this.

regardless of his status as a police officer, i wouldn't agree with an arrest. you don't, as a civilian, get arrested for 1/4oz of pot.

that being said, i believe that police officers should be held to a higher standard than civilians, and since he already lost his job, part of that is already been taken care of. perhaps a fine for theft of evidence (or failing to submit evidence). anything more than that would be executing opinion rather than justice.

He placed a non-emergency call to 911 which would be a misdemeanor. The thing to mention is he took police evidence a gross misuse of his civil position. That is highly illegal and just losing his job isn't enough (he resigned so technically he wasn't even reprimanded).

BTW It is actually possible to overdose on marijuana, however the dosage required to do so is astronomically high.

Best line: " . . . we made brownies, and I think we're dead."

My repsonse: "Well, sir, that is only possible if you were watching Fantasia simultaneously."


" . . . I think we're dead . . ." LOL!!

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23 reasons to smoke marijuna!<---I love that page, because it has links to actual studies.

Farhad there are AFAIK no reported cases of people dying by THC (marijuana) intake alone. It might be possible but you'd probably have to IV massive quantities of pure THC.

Eating brownies is a bad strategy for first timers. Estimating the dose is really hard. It takes quite a while for the effects to come up, so many people get the "I don't feel it, so I'll take more" effect. It keeps building, you'll be feeling nicely stoned but then it still gets stronger and stronger. Lastly and maybe most importantly it lasts for a long time. If I eat a good amount of brownies in the afternoon I'll steel be feeling it the next morning.

Farhad, do you have a link to the full audio recording?

Here's a link to the complete 911 recording:

http://media.freep.com/audio/2007/0510potcop_freep.mp3

yeah i agree with Farhad2000, it is possible to overdose on marijuana. i remember reading some study where researchers fed ridiculous amonuts marijuana to rhesus monkies and they became psychotic and then died from some sort of toxic posioning.

in my experience, however, you'd have to eat so much marijuana to overdose on it that you'd vomit it back up. i agree with cybrbeast in this respect, "It might be possible but you'd probably have to IV massive quantities of pure THC." true dat. true dat.

thinking back to my misspent youth, if that guy is able to make a phone call and follow a conversation he's not nearly approaching stoned enough. when someone got really stoned we'd call it the 'greenies'. they'd usually go a bit green in their face, feel disorientated and maybe dry retch for a bit. the solution was always to give them loads of water and vitamin C and also talk them down from it. most of the time people went green when we took 'coffee shots' which were cups of very strong coffee & sugar mixed with huge amounts of cannabis resin and knocked back in one go. at the time we had some pseudo-scientific explanation for it regarding increased blood absorption or something. but that stuff used to really knock you out. you'd be tripping harder than on magic mushrooms (which we were kind of into at the time). i saw guys freak out cuz they thought their face was falling off. and one time a girl i knew just lay in the middle of the room in a foetal position for the whole day just sucking her thumb and making baby noises..

thanks for the audio pyrex. That's some LOL stuff

Here is some info on the toxicity of THC:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetrahydrocannabinol#Toxicity
According to the Merck Index, 12th edition, THC has a LD50 value of 1270 mg/kg (male rats) and 730 mg/kg (female rats) administered orally dissolved in sesame oil.[2]

If this were scaled up to an adult human, the LD50 would be between approximately 50 and 86 g for a 68 kg (150 lb) female or male person respectively. This would be equivalent to 1-1.8 kg of cannabis with a 5% THC content (roughly average) taken orally.

http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/library/mj_overdose.htm
In summary, enormous doses of Delta 9 THC, All THC and concentrated marihuana extract ingested by mouth were unable to produce death or organ pathology in large mammals but did produce fatalities in smaller rodents due to profound central nervous system depression.

The non-fatal consumption of 3000 mg/kg A THC by the dog and monkey would be comparable to a 154-pound human eating approximately 46 pounds (21 kilograms) of 1%-marihuana or 10 pounds of 5% hashish at one time. In addition, 92 mg/kg THC intravenously produced no fatalities in monkeys. These doses would be comparable to a 154-pound human smoking at one time almost three pounds (1.28 kg) of 1%-marihuana or 250,000 times the usual smoked dose and over a million times the minimal effective dose assuming 50% destruction of the THC by smoking.

Thus, evidence from animal studies and human case reports appears to indicate that the ratio of lethal dose to effective dose is quite large. This ratio is much more favorable than that of many other common psychoactive agents including alcohol and barbiturates (Phillips et al. 1971, Brill et al. 1970).

Thanks for that Cybrbeast.

My pleasure, I always enjoy spreading the truth about drugs.
Legalize it!

It may be possible to overdose on THC, but it'll probably never happen. It's also possible to overdose on bananas, and die of potassium poisoning. You would have to basically go on a banana eating marathon for the entire day, and even then your body might not be physically capable of holding all that in.

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I knew a couple of people who ate those brownies once and it definitely went extra-terrestrial on their ass, do not doubt the power of the chocolate treat.

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