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HOW DANGEROUS IS MARIJUANA
COMPARED
WITH 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. Surgeon Generals' reports.
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| TOBACCO |
340,000 to 450,000 |
| 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 and/or mixing with alcohol - e.g.
Valium/alcohol |
14,000 to 27,000 |
| ILLICIT DRUG OVERDOSE (Deliberate or accidental) from
all illegal drugs. |
3,800 to 5,200 |
| MARIJUANA |
0 |
| (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 & Second Jamaican Studies, 1968 to 1974;
Costa Rican Studies, 1980 to 1982; et al. LOWEST TOXICITY 100% of the
studies done at dozens of American universities and research facilities
show pot toxicity does not exist. Medical history does not record anyone
dying from an overdose of marijuana (UCLA, Harvard, Temple, etc.).
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