Monday, February 22, 2010

Can Medical Marijuana kill You?

I get asked a lot about can "medical" marijuana kill you, look at the information below and see how bad it really is!

The following are the annual causes of death in the USA:

Cause                                                                    Deaths
Tobacco                                                               435,000
Poor Diet and Physical Inactivity                            365,000
Alcohol                                                                   85,000
Microbial Agents                                                     75,000
Toxic Agents                                                           55,000
Motor Vehicle Crashes                                            26,347
Adverse Reactions to Prescription Drugs                  32,000
Suicide                                                                     30,622
Incidents Involving Firearms                                      29,000
Homicide                                                                  20,308
Sexual Behaviors                                                       20,000
All Illicit Drug Use, Direct and Indirect                       17,000
Non-Steroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drugs                       7,600
    - Such As Aspirin
Marijuana                                                                          0

But marijuana still has a bad reputation with many people and alcohol is accepted in most societies. This may be due to the fact that most people refer to marijuana as a drug and alchol not as a drug.

It has never been proven that anyone has died as a direct result of using marijuana.

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