No one has ever overdosed on it, because it isn’t possible.

Your pastor is a total idiot. Alcohol is more dangerous than marijuana and it’s legal. You can OD on alcohol, not marijuana.

Tell your pastor to lay off the crack. Just because he is holding a book with a big + sign on it and wearing a fancy robe, doesn’t mean he knows anymore about what’s right and wrong than you do.

Plus, Marijuana is Impossible to OD on…

It is 100 times safer than alcohol… Fact.

And unlike the legal poison of alcohol it actually has many medical uses. Aids patients can relieve their pains…

Chemotherapy patients also could use it to ease their pains without the harmful side affects of hard pain killers… it also helps increase chemotherapy patients appetite so they want to eat and don’t just wither away….

Tell that to your pastor.

I defy you to cite one legitimate case of a marijuana overdose. Your pastor is full of crap. Do a little research to get some FACTS before you go spouting off, rather that regurgitating rhetoric from your pastor, otherwise you look like a real fool.

Are you the same troll as Timothy Monkeyballs? And if so, what is your fascination with different animals’ balls?

This is why I find it hard to believe any religious leader. They fill you with lies at times to get their point across.

Anyway, it is more natural that the toxic Cigarettes that are killing more and more people each year. I don’t smoke marijuana, but i drink a beer now and then and If you drink beer or wine you are also consuming what could be believed as a gateway drug but yet it is still legal, but regulated by laws to protect you and others. The same can happen with marijuana, and if it is regulated by laws, yes you will have accidents and people will abuse it but I don’t think you can overdose to a point of killing yourself like alcohol. You can however get to a point that can be considered under the influence that can cause you to be in a situation that can kill you and others. That’s where the law should help but we know how that goes with respect to drinking and driving.

Why are they talking about it??? Because people are smoking up as you type, and in a sense they are smoking away billions of tax dollars that could be collected if the drug was regulated. Government companies can produce a government grade that can be distributed creating jobs and money to pay off government debt.

I think that someone in California stated that they smoke 18 billion away every day. If that is true, legalize the damn thing already.

fact- marijuana was outlawed by the cotton industry. {i.e.} makes a very durable cloth.
fact – Virginia’s 1st cash crop was hemp.
fact – no person has ever over dosed on weed.
fact – makes people want to eat.
fact – If I wanted a natural plant to be exterminated I would have picked poison ivy or poison oak.

Marijuana potency has grown steeply over the past decade with serious implications for users with the average amount of THC having more than doubled.

In the same period the number of admissions to psychiatric hospital caused by the drug soared by 85 per cent due to the fact that those who smoke the drug regularly are more than twice as likely to suffer illnesses such as schizophrenia, hallucinations and delusions later in life.

Teens using marijuana to alleviate feelings of depression just compound the problem.

As well as psychotic illness cannabis can cause affective disorders such as depression, anxiety and suicidal thoughts. Even worse it is linked to cancers.

Cannabis users display neuropsychological dysfunction (relative frontal lobe functioning deficits, cognitive inhibition) and attentional deficits similar to those found in schizotypal or schizophrenia patients.

Regular use can shrink the parts of the brain which control memory, emotion and aggression. The hippocampus, which is thought to govern emotion and memory averages 12 percent smaller and the amygdala, which has a part in controlling fear and aggression, 7 percent smaller. This suggests that heavy daily use may be toxic to human brain tissue.

Blood flow velocity is significantly higher in users and they have higher values on the pulsatility index (PI), which measures the amount of resistance to blood flow. This is thought to be due to narrowing of the blood vessels that occurs when the circulation system’s ability to regulate itself is impaired. This leads to abnormalities in the small blood vessels in the brain.

The active chemical in MJ called delta-9-tetrahyrdocannabinol (THC) binds to cannabinoid (CB) receptors located on several cell types in various organs. This greatly increases the risk for heart attacks and strokes in addition to impaired learning and memory.

It can also effect physical health. Three to four cannabis cigarettes a day cause the same amount of damage to the lungs as 20 or more tobacco cigarettes a day. Thus there are rising levels of lung diseases such as emphysema.
In comparison to cigarettes marijuana smoke has significantly higher levels of toxic compounds, including ammonia and hydrogen cyanide. Ammonia levels are 20 times higher while hydrogen cyanide, nitric oxide and certain aromatic amines occurred at levels 3-5 times higher.
It can also effect the unborn child. Scientists have identified that endogenous cannabinoids, molecules naturally produced by our brains are functionally similar to THC from cannabis and play significant roles in establishing how certain nerve cells connect to each other. Maternal cannabis use allows THC to travel through the placenta and impair fetal brain development and impose life-long cognitive, social, and motor deficits in affected offspring.

Low doses of Ä-9 tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), equivalent to that in the bloodstream of an average marijuana smoker facilitate infection of skin cells and can cause these cells to turn into malignant sarcoma. Men who regularly smoke cannabis have a 70 per cent increased risk of testicular cancer.

And then there are all the car crashes caused by people driving under the influence of drugs that are at this moment being quantified but already show that more drug drivers kill than drink drivers!!

You cannot OD on marijuana. No one has ever OD’ed on it in the over 4,000 years humans have been smoking it. and its a gateway to hell? nonsence! God created all plants and forests to sustain us.