Party time
I was reading an interesting article in the paper the other day about a paper that has been released on cannabis use. The article said that to be classified as a cannabis addict you would be needing to smoke 350 joints a day.

350.

That's 50 a day or more to the point 1 every half hour every 24 hour period, so allowing for 8 hours sleep that means you will have to roll up, and smoke 1.56 joints every half hour.

I'm sorry but this strikes me as a little impossible but it did lead me to do a little research. I decided to find the LD50 for cannabis (for those who don't know the LD50 is The dosage sufficient to kill half of the organisms tested) and I found a startling result. For orally ingested THECA (the chemical that gets you high) the grading is approximately 1 g/kg of body weight. Simply interpreted, this means an average sized human would have to consume 50-100 g of pure THECA to reach the LD50 level. Since high-potency Cannabis contains approximately 10% THECA, a person would have to eat (not smoke) at least 500-1,000 g of this marijuana before having a 50% chance of death.

500-1000g that is equivalent to eating a block of hash the size of a average bag of sugar and your chances of survival are still 50/50.

For alcohol the basic working is this.
For a 100 lb. man or woman drinking very quickly, it would only require about 8-10 drinks in an hour to reach the lethal level. Hard but not impossible you would probably end up passing out before ever reaching the ld50.

So who's up for a little field study?
- posted by J @ 23:33