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How Dangerous is Marijuana....in comparison to other substances?
Number of American deaths per year that result directly or primarily from the following selected causes nationwide, according to World Almanacs, Life Insurance Actuarial (death) rates, and the last 20 years of U.S. Surgeaon Generals' reports. (figures are for 1988 from the federal government's Bureau of Mortality Statistics and the National Institute on Drug Abuse.... Tobacco 340,000 to 425,000 Alcohol (not including 50% of all highway deaths and 65% of all murders) 150,000 Aspirin (Including deliberate overdose) 180 to 1,000+ Caffeine (from stress, ulcers and triggering irregular heartbeats, etc) 1,000 to 10,000 'Legal' Drug overdose (Deliberate or accidental) from legal prescribed or patent medicines or from mixing with alcohol (eg. Valium with Alcohol) 14,000 to 27,000 Illicit Drug Overdose (deliberate or accidental) from all illegal drugs 3,800 to 5,200 Theopoline (Pharmaceutical Drug legally prescribed for asthma) 50 Theopoline is also responsible for 6,500 hospital admissions and 1,000 cases of permanent brain damage per year. Marijuana 0 (ZERO)
Marijuana users also have the same or lower incidence of
murders and highway deaths and accidents than the general
non-marijuana-using population as a whole. Crancer Study, UCLA:
U.S. funded ($6 million) First and Second Jamaican studies, 1968
to 1974;Costa Rican Studies, 1980 to 1982; et al. End |