Drug Related Deaths Per Year

Under the circumstances, we can honestly say that THC and marijuana in general is not toxic to humans at all, and it's no surprise that there are no recorded, substatiated fatalities resulting from marijuana/THC overdose.

The primary active ingredient in marijuana is tetrahydrocannibinol or THC. However, this is somewhat misleading, in that the effects one experiences when sampling marijuana are derrived from a rainbow of canniboid halluncinogens and intoxicants, all related to but not exactly the same as THC. As plants tend to formulate compounds in wildly varying amounts, one cannot know how much THC or other active ingredients, if any, will be delivered from one plant.

Turning towards studies that used pure THC, we find that the usual recreational dosage is roughly 10-15mg/kg for a normal human. We also find that the LD50 (Lethal Dose 50%) of THC is 1,270mg/kg for male rats. Doing the arithmetic for humans, we find that it takes about 300g's of pure THC to acheive lethality in 50% of the test cases, which amounts to roughly 30,000 marijuana cigarettes.

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