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Utah to use pentobarbital to execute man instead of three-drug combination
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Pedantic, but:
The LD50 for THC is so hilariously high that you will physically lose the ability to move your body and consume more THC long, long before you reach a point of potential toxicity. From a technical standpoint there is no recorded event of a THC "overdose" ever occurring, like literally ever in human history, and boy have we been trying over the years. It's easier to die from drinking too much water than consuming too much THC.
Now clearly what you're referring to is just having had too much, "greening out" as the kids say, where you can gain a lot of anxiety and lose a lot of bodily control. And yes, that sucks, a lot. Panic attack city right there. But that's not an overdose in the proper, dangerous sense of the term.
I only even bring this up because with cannabis being such a hot button political issue lately and being on the brink of federal legalization, accurate information about it is more important now than ever. And more often than not I usually see comments like this just replied to with "lol u can't overdose on weed idiot" with no further context and that's not helpful to anyone.
You can definitely take too much and have a bad time, but if you manage to find a way to legitimately overdose on THC, Willie Nelson would like to know your location.
You've just alluded to a toxic reaction due to overdose. The term overdose does not exclusively refer to the median fatal dose, nor does it hinge on the risk of lethality.
Okay, point taken, but - Oxford's definition of overdose reads "an excessive and dangerous dose of a drug", emphasis mine, though that may differ from a clinical definition. My point was that it's basically impossible to consume enough THC to require medical attention about it, even if you're trying.
Though I'm realizing now that this conversation is taking place in the context of executing a man with it, so the point may be moot anyway.
If you don't think panic attacks are dangerous, you've never had one.
This is in the context of execution.
It's in the context of someone moving the conversation from "a cannibus overdose is impractical as a means of execution" to "there is no such thing as a cannibus overdose".
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An overdose doesn’t mean you die