| Alcohol Has Killed Thousands Since This Morning. Pot Has Killed Zero Since Forever Nick Wing - The Huffington Post | |
| go to original September 26, 2013 |
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A new website launched this month is comparing the direct death tolls from marijuana and alcohol use.
If you click over to Since This Morning, you'll see a number growing on the left, above "Deaths Directly Caused by Alcohol," while the number on the right, above "Deaths Directly Caused by Marijuana," remains at zero. These are estimates of the total people directly killed by each drug since the beginning of the day.
... While the alcohol counter is something of a rough estimate, the marijuana data is more precise. Nobody has ever been killed directly by marijuana use. According to one study, a marijuana smoker would have to consume thousands of joints' worth of THC - the compound that gets users high - in order to be at risk of dying.
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