Posted January 20, 200421 yr Cannabis is blamed as cause of man's death A man of 36 is believed to have become the first person in Britain to die directly from cannabis poisoning. Lee Maisey smoked six cannabis cigarettes a day for 11 years, an inquest heard. His death, which was registered as having been caused by cannabis toxicity, led to new warnings about the drug, which is due to be reclassified this month as a less dangerous one. "This type of death is extremely rare," Prof John Henry, a toxicologist at Imperial College, London, said after the inquest at Haverfordwest, west Wales. "I have not seen anything like this before. It corrects the argument that cannabis cannot kill anybody." The inquest heard that Mr Maisey had complained of a headache on Aug 22 last year. Next morning he was found dead at the house he shared with a friend, Jeffrey Saunders, in Summerhill, Pembrokeshire. Michael Howells, the Pembrokeshire coroner, said Mr Maisey was free from disease and had not drunk alcohol for at least 48 hours. Post-mortem tests showed a high level of cannabinoids in his blood. He recorded a verdict of death by misadventure because Mr Maisey had died while taking part in an illegal activity. The death led to a warning about the changing strength of cannabis, which is to be reduced to a Class C drug on Jan 29. Dr Philip Guy, a lecturer in addictions at the University of Hull, said: "Cannabis is not the nice hippy drug it used to be. It has been experimented with to produce stronger varieties." Dr Guy said that death was more likely if users ate the drug rather than smoked it. "I would not be surprised if in this case the deceased had ingested a fatal amount of cannabis." Last autumn police issued a warning that big consignments of strong cannabis were being smuggled in from Africa. On Jan 29, cannabis will be reclassified from a class B to a class C drug. The shadow home secretary, David Davis, said last night: "This highlights what we have been saying about the effects of cannabis all along. When will people wake up to the fact that cannabis can be a harmful drug? "By reclassifying the drug David Blunkett has shown he has lost the war on drugs. In my eyes, it's nothing more than an admission of failure." Tristan Millington-Drake, the chief executive of the Chemical Dependency Centre, a charity that provides treatment for people with drug problems, said: "We have always taken the view that cannabis is an addictive drug, unlike the pedlars who try to persuade us that it is harmless. The Government's decision to reclassify cannabis is a mistake." http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/01/20/ncann20.xml&sSheet=/portal/2004/01/20/ixportal.html
January 20, 200421 yr Smoking anything is not healthy... so if you want to help your lungs out the more potent the better so you have to smoke less to get desired effects. Of course you could eat or vaporize it if you want to take it in a more healthy way. I'm sure he didn't OD I don't believe that shit. They just found some weed in his system and blame it for the death like numourous other cases.
January 20, 200421 yr I agree with g0d. Who wants to smoke like 3 bowls of brickweed if you could just take a hit or two of white widow and be buzzin all night? Some people will do anything to claim that weed is a horrible, unusable, and dangerous drug. If cannabinoids were found in his system, might it have been from hashish? Hashish is still part of the cannabis family.....
January 20, 200421 yr He problay died someother way, there are so many deaths unexplaind, you see people dieng, and doctors can't find a good reason why the person died. They just trying to find a way to give bud a bad name, make it look more dangerous, so people start pressuring more on the drug war, and when people pressure shit, that means someone is gonne get a bigger pay check to make sure that the people get what they want... kthx btw white widow gets u high for 2 hours and not all night u n00b smoker. If u want a all day high, eat special brownies.... btw me +high
January 20, 200421 yr White widow keeps me going for much more than 2 hours, zuzu. Unless it really doesn't and im so blasted I have no conception of time or area....... But how about the taste of it? It's my favorite bud tastewise.
January 20, 200421 yr wow it showed he had marijuana in his system at the time he died thats fucking bullshit that could of been from a month ago for all they know.
January 20, 200421 yr David Blunkett is blind and therefore stupid (if he was smart he'd be able to see). Just to put things in perspective: 28,000 deaths a year in britain are attributed to alcohol abuse. 1 n00b in any amount of years dies from so-called cannibas abuse and there is fucking uproar. It just playing on a stereotype people have of illegal drugs. No one cares if some fucker ODs on caffiene for fuck's sake, they just assume he is stupid for taking so much. Same thing here, just a n00b thinking he is hardcore and eating a big stash.
January 20, 200421 yr ya like that moron ripper who fucking od's on prescription shit trying to impress fagets on an irc chatroom fucking morons
January 20, 200421 yr Fuck that, regardless of that shit, it's still not a plausible cause to quit smoking weed. Other than the fact that it's illegal. edit: oh yeah and it's bad for your health. PS. I gave up on weed about 10 months ago, I'm proud of myself never thought I'd be able to stop.
January 20, 200421 yr its just like the anti drug commercials well actually just anti marijuana commercials now you never see anti cocaine commercials or anything like that . Also they are fucking so pointless yeah the kid fell in the pool because they were getting stoned but if the parents werent so fucking stupid they would have a pool cover.
January 20, 200421 yr Cannabis abuse does not mean cannabis overdose. I don't want to side with all the faggots searching for a reason to keep doing drugs, but weed does not kill you unless it gives you cancer. The theory that cannabis will kill you is absolutely absurd. Cannabis does not kill directly, only indirectly as a result of you not doing shit to be prepared. Most likely case is the faggot was trying to eat the shit and suffocated.
January 21, 200421 yr "1 n00b in any amount of years dies from so-called cannibas abuse and there is fucking uproar. It just playing on a stereotype people have of illegal drugs." ...more people drink alcohol and so more people die..its legal
January 21, 200421 yr Cannabis is blamed as cause of man's death A man of 36 is believed to have become the first person in Britain to die directly from cannabis poisoning. Lee Maisey smoked six cannabis cigarettes a day for 11 years, an inquest heard. His death, which was registered as having been caused by cannabis toxicity, led to new warnings about the drug, which is due to be reclassified this month as a less dangerous one. "This type of death is extremely rare," Prof John Henry, a toxicologist at Imperial College, London, said after the inquest at Haverfordwest, west Wales. "I have not seen anything like this before. It corrects the argument that cannabis cannot kill anybody." The inquest heard that Mr Maisey had complained of a headache on Aug 22 last year. Next morning he was found dead at the house he shared with a friend, Jeffrey Saunders, in Summerhill, Pembrokeshire. Michael Howells, the Pembrokeshire coroner, said Mr Maisey was free from disease and had not drunk alcohol for at least 48 hours. Post-mortem tests showed a high level of cannabinoids in his blood. He recorded a verdict of death by misadventure because Mr Maisey had died while taking part in an illegal activity. The death led to a warning about the changing strength of cannabis, which is to be reduced to a Class C drug on Jan 29. Dr Philip Guy, a lecturer in addictions at the University of Hull, said: "Cannabis is not the nice hippy drug it used to be. It has been experimented with to produce stronger varieties." Dr Guy said that death was more likely if users ate the drug rather than smoked it. "I would not be surprised if in this case the deceased had ingested a fatal amount of cannabis." Last autumn police issued a warning that big consignments of strong cannabis were being smuggled in from Africa. On Jan 29, cannabis will be reclassified from a class B to a class C drug. The shadow home secretary, David Davis, said last night: "This highlights what we have been saying about the effects of cannabis all along. When will people wake up to the fact that cannabis can be a harmful drug? "By reclassifying the drug David Blunkett has shown he has lost the war on drugs. In my eyes, it's nothing more than an admission of failure." Tristan Millington-Drake, the chief executive of the Chemical Dependency Centre, a charity that provides treatment for people with drug problems, said: "We have always taken the view that cannabis is an addictive drug, unlike the pedlars who try to persuade us that it is harmless. The Government's decision to reclassify cannabis is a mistake." http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/01/20/ncann20.xml&sSheet=/portal/2004/01/20/ixportal.html :liar:
January 21, 200421 yr if you smoke 6 unfiltered cigarettes of anything every day for 11 years you're gonna die sooner or later how do they know it wasn't undiagnosed lung cancer from that much smoking
January 21, 200421 yr stupood britians, smoke 6 joints / day? :ughwtf: he should've smoked my bc skunk buds, half a joint is enough to fuck up all night
January 21, 200421 yr I agree with most, weed cant kill you (unless it give you cancer) and more potent weed is the only weed anyone should buy. Every time you but cheap weed think of Jesus (HEY-ZOOSE) and cheeko spending your cash on some cheap mexican beer and some fucking buritos or something. Take your money to the fucking white people where the real weed is.
