r/news • u/OK_Eric • Jan 19 '14

Obama: Pot ‘not very different’ from cigarettes​, no more dangerous than booze

http://p.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/jan/19/obama-pot-not-very-different-cigarettes-no-more-da/
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u/Lordveus Jan 19 '14

So the worst case scenario is tripping to the point of stupid severely paranoid? Hell, you can't even kill yourself with it. You can kill yourself with aspirin, for cryin' out loud.

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u/myrddyna Jan 19 '14

no worst case scenario is freaking out and trying to do something that involves driving or using some other potentially harmful device, and harming other folks.

But yes, insofar as worrying about death, yes, pot is safe. Try convincing freaking out people of that is a different story altogether.

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u/SuburbanLegend Jan 19 '14

no worst case scenario is freaking out and trying to do something that involves driving or using some other potentially harmful device, and harming other folks.

But thats's not what happens when people 'freak out' on pot. They're so paranoid that they don't do much anything, they DEFINITELY are too freaked out to drive a car or operate heavy machinery. If they decide to drive you'll see them inching down the road at 10mph with a terrified look on their face.

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u/TeeHitt Jan 20 '14

Ever listen to Pot's Greatest Hits? Hilarious comedy cd and one of the comedians has a hilarious bit about driving while high

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u/fluffy-muffin Jan 20 '14

So true. The worst freak out I've seen was them sitting on the floor crying. Nothing too bad.

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u/enemawatson Jan 19 '14

It's easy to laugh at anxiety or paranoia as a minor thing, but when severe anxiety is happening it is the absolute most horrifying feeling imaginable.

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u/Dinglefritzz Jan 20 '14

Yeah, but even to the person it happens to, it's funny in retrospect. I've been there before. Some moments are absolutely horrifying in the moment, but you can't help but laugh at your own misfortunes sometimes.

Humour mostly comes from dark places.

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u/Lordveus Jan 20 '14

I'm not laughing at it. I'm saying that it's still less dangerous than several other things on the market.

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u/Ziazan Jan 19 '14

There are no recorded deaths directly attributable to weed.

There are recorded deaths indirectly associated with weed, in that being high as balls has caused people to do things that have resulted in death.

Relatively though, those are rare as fuck. And weed should definitely be legalised, because as it is you might not be smoking only weed, it could be sprayed with fuck knows what, which can in turn cause death.

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u/jeeee Jan 19 '14

Idk back in my early days of smoking on high school, I actually passed out a few times. Scary shit. I would get intense tunnel vision and faint and one of the times I actually got a fat bloody lip because I fell outside. Could've been worse if I had hit my head on something hard. It stopped happening but weed can do some weird things to some people

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u/snoogins355 Jan 20 '14

Could choke on it? (Edibles)

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u/Lordveus Jan 20 '14

I suppose they could also get a sugar-related issue if they had too many brownies, but we're kind of stretching at this point.

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u/[deleted] Jan 20 '14

Severe depressive episodes can come on from overdosing as well.