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DainBramaged Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-27-09 06:45 PM
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There are more than 2,000,000 alcohol related deaths world wide every year
In 2005, 30,694 people were killed by firearms in the U.S..


In 2007 — 41,059 people died from being involved in a motor vehicle accident in the U.S.




How many people have died from smoking marijuana?





http://www.america.gov/st/health-english/2008/October/20081023115119abretnuh0.9323999.html

http://drugwarfacts.org/cms/?q=node/30

http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/ss5703a1.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effects_of_cannabis
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Hello_Kitty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-27-09 06:51 PM
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1. Whaddya trying to say, ya long haired freak?
;)
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DainBramaged Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-27-09 06:55 PM
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2. This was my hair before my brain tumor surgery in 2007
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SmileyRose Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-27-09 06:58 PM
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4. You had a brain tumor? That explains everything.
:P

In all sincerity, I hope you are better or getting better and I hope you can grow the hair back. Even without seeing your face, it obviously fits you.

:hug:
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DainBramaged Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-27-09 07:01 PM
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5. Second one in 9 years. Life has not been a bowl of pudding recently.
The hair doesn't grow like it used to, my pituitary gland is dead. So I take all the wrong steroids to live. And it took out my eyesight in the right eye. I should have just lit up a fatty.

:hi:
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Hello_Kitty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-27-09 11:32 PM
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12. Lovely! Hope your surgery worked out well.
:hug:
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SmileyRose Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-27-09 06:55 PM
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3. I've only ever heard of 1 death from weed (well not really but kinda)
The husband of someone I used to work with had smoked about half a big fatty and for some odd reason decided it was a good time to take the chain saw up a ladder and get those tree limbs. He got the wife to hold the ladder while he stood on the very top with the chainsaw. He slipped and somehow the wife's head got chainsawed off.

The guy was a sweetheart kinda guy - really mild mannered. The cops, the medical people, everyone told him the weed was not at fault, it's just that shit happens. 4 months later he killified himself because he could not live with the fact he hurt his wife while he was buzzed. So in a round about way it was the weed........
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Thothmes Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-27-09 07:21 PM
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6. Whats your point?
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DainBramaged Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-27-09 07:24 PM
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I guess you neither smoke nor consider decriminalizing dope an issue.
What's your point?
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Thothmes Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-27-09 08:56 PM
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8. if people smoked marijuana at the same volume they
use tobacco, what would the death toll from that look like.
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JeffR Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-27-09 08:59 PM
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9. You think someone could spark up 20 or more spliffs a day?
Edited on Fri Feb-27-09 08:59 PM by JeffR
What exactly have you been smoking?

:rofl:

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DainBramaged Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-27-09 09:22 PM
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11. Read the link to Wiki, you'll be surprised at the medical findings
Edited on Fri Feb-27-09 09:23 PM by DainBramaged
Again, how many people have DIED from smoking fatties?

Gunpowder and lead residue is more dangerous than spliff.
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Uncle Joe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-28-09 04:31 PM
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18. Don't forget allergic reactions to peanut butter. b/t
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DainBramaged Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-28-09 04:45 PM
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20. Oh yes, I forgot that one, and allergies to bee stings too...
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Hello_Kitty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-27-09 11:43 PM
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13. Impossible, considering the increase in THC in modern strains of pot.
The "OMG THC is higher!!1!" propaganda that is the latest staple of the Reefer Madness crowd actually undermines their best "health" argument. Higher THC translates to LESS inhalation of carcinogenic smoke.
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DainBramaged Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-28-09 01:09 PM
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15. You still haven't told US your point or motive.........
(taps foot, knocks on forehead, come back later, nobody home)
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spanone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-27-09 07:24 PM
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7. there you go applying logic to the war on drugs....how dare you
:sarcasm:
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tabasco Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-27-09 09:05 PM
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10. The drug laws are completely irrational and very counterproductive.
People who would be excellent leaders in our society have been relegated to second-class citizen status because of victimless drug convictions.
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DainBramaged Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-28-09 05:15 AM
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14. I agree
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cherokeeprogressive Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-28-09 01:16 PM
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16. I almost OD'd on Funyuns once in the middle of an Atari "Missile Command" marathon.
Lucky for me there was a twelve pack of Coke in the fridge.

So no, I don't know anyone who has died from MJ.
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DainBramaged Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-28-09 04:23 PM
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17. I remember BOXES of Ring Dings disappearing during PacMan marathons
I always said that the world would have ceased to exist if Teletubbies had been on TV in the 60's and 70'. Our minds would not have been able to handle it.


http://www.theage.com.au/ffximage/2007/05/29/tubbies_narrowweb__300x334,0.jpg
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NightWatcher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-28-09 04:31 PM
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19. the only way that marijuana can kill you is if a heavy enough bale of it falls on your head
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DainBramaged Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-28-09 04:46 PM
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21. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
:fistbump: :yourock: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :applause: :applause: :applause:
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