Marijuana - The Facts

[DrOwnage97]

jello biafra is one of the smartest political activists that there has ever been. I absolutely recommend looking into more of his spoken word (and band as well) work. If you have ever herd of the Dead Kennedys (by their hits police truck, California Uber Alles, and Holiday in Cambodia), he was the lead singer and songwriter in the band back in the seventies. Been a long time fan of his, and he never ceases to amaze me.

[SUBinfinit]

@AlphaLinkX yes but you can also overdose on water so point is marijuana is not toxic to the human body

[NakedCreep]

Wait, why did you put a watermark over the original video's watermark?

The fuck?

[theguigo]

there's a link to HQ version of this video:

worldstarhiphop-com - search title "The History Of Weed!"

and you can't find this clip on YouTube anymore, why? :)

[heavyweight328]

soundtrack?

[Mankafy]

0 case of overdose in marijuana is a fault assumption! Take a look for all people with FLM hospital in Madagascar! You'll see what happened?

[ThrustMuscle]

looks like a very well put together video but it is almost unwatchable due to the very small letters and the terrible contrast in the video

[Auzuken]

HELL YEAH DAYVAN COWBOY!

[CalicoRegent]

Reminds me of a rhyme I once heard. God is good, man is not. Man made alcohol, God grew pot.

[Dballmj4w]

whats the name of the song in this video? anyone?

[benc117]

@Dballmj4w dayvan cowboy - boards of canada

[folding411]

You guys should really watch

The Union: Buisness behind getting high

if your intrested in learning about marijuana

[Kandiineon]

where can i find this video where i can actually read the text?

[LibertaerUeberAlles]

doobie doobie dooooooo !!!!

[420captain]

"the whole stoner, low energy ,dead head vibe"? FUCK YOU MAN. I never have low energy when im stoned,and nither do my friends.sounds like good people to me"stoners,dead head vibe" sounds great buddy. u are what u make of it when ur stoned and when ur not stoned. dont perpetuate the mith that it makes u lazy.if u dont like smoking it leave it at that. peace .END the drug WAR now.

[nstvera]

@420captain

i agree with you, when i have me some blueberry pie, i go to the gym right after and have a great work out!!!!!

[Kandiineon]

@nstvera having pie and going to work out makes no difference in your health -_-' its just keeping ur weight neutral

[longestnameuwillsee1]

pple killed by marijuana= ZERO y godmade

people killed by brew= HELLA y Manmade

[superdiza]

This looks like an amazing video, but in order to publish it here you should have made the lettering larger or at least upload it in HD or not at all.

This is a big miss you guys.

[compelled2283]

Tried...but my converter sucks. Sorry, but you can find a better version of the beginning of this video on "THELIGHT" channel.

[HigherPower2010]

@compelled2283 i subbed u nice vid happy holidasy

[RyuDarragh]

Sorry, compelled. Marijuana is no less harmful than many an herbal smoke blend. It's burned, has tars and carbon monoxide, just like any other kind of weed. You have to compare THC against Nicotine to see a non-toxic / toxic split. Yes, it's less dangerous than tobacco or alcohol, but it's still not good to breathe *any* kind of smoke or operate heavy machinery or drive under the influence of any mind altering substance. I would agree, if alcohol and tobacco are not illegal, neither should weed.

[ProfessorPEARL]

Marijuana is a plant. Burning is a process.

The LD50 (median lethal dose) of nicotine is 50 mg/kg rat. To put that in perspective the LD50 of mercury is 1mg/kg rat. THC has a LD50 of 1270 mg/kg rat male. The New England Medical Journal in stated on THC's LD50, "1500 pounds (680 kilograms) of cannabis would have to be smoked within 14 minutes" to cause death.

In thousands of years of known data, there has never been a credible report of overdose. THC is safe, cannabis is safe, smoke is bad.

[RyuDarragh]

@ProfessorPEARL: Did I say anything about the LD50? What I said was breathing ANYTHING that is burning gets tar (marijuana produce some), CO and particulates. This is the same stupid point brought up by many folks who ignore the facts. As safe as THC may be, *smoking* anything at all is bad for your lungs! Period. Ask a scientist or a competent medical professional about this. Driving a vehicle or operating heavy machinery while under the influence of THC is *also* monumentally stupid.

[ProfessorPEARL]

Actually, what you said is right there, but I'll cut & paste (just in case)

"You have to compare THC against Nicotine to see a non-toxic / toxic split"

By what means would you have them be compared, alchemy?

What would kill you if you smoked 1500 lbs of cigarettes in lets say, a two hour period? Is it the smoke or the nicotine?

The LD50 allows for comparisons of all chemicals & compounds.

Peace.

[RyuDarragh]

@ProfessorPEARL: I will reiterate and refer you to real research. Irrespective of the 1270mg/Kg for THC and 10mg/Kg for nicotene, smoking marijuana is not as safe as people are distorting the facts. 1) Marijuana has 4 times the tar of tobacco (raw processed for rolling and smoked). 2) Produces the same amount of Carbon Monoxide and similar particulates. 3) Even herbal smokes with no dangerous chemicals at all can cause lung cancer. If common sense is lacking, you've been smoking too much hash.

[ProfessorPEARL]

Interestingly enough, although I have the means, I do not smoke it. Searching for truth versus believing in myths is what sets a skeptic apart from a faither.

The science has been done, the figures are in, anyone who wants to look at the data can, regardless what their personal opinions are...

[RyuDarragh]

@ProfessorPEARL: Exactly my point. Perhaps if they made an herbal infusion using THC in the manner of an "energy drink", they could imbibe safely. But, it would still be necessary to impose some of the same limitations on drinking that as on alcohol. After all, DUI applies to any mind altering substance :P

[thesavagekhan]

Marijuana does come in many different forms. Pills, food additives, lotions, you name it. But sadly they are all illegal because federal law states Marijuana is as dangerous as cocaine and heroin. As for smoking, you can cut down on over 50% of the carcinogens by using a water pipe (passing the smoke through water). Smoking is still bad for your health but when compared to drinking and smoking cigarettes it is far far less lethal. It's this fallacy that makes the subject of illegality a joke.

[RyuDarragh]

@thesavagekhan: True enough. But smoking it will always be more hazardous than any of the extracts. Why do you think tobacco has not entered into a world of bongs and waterpipes? Anyway, it needs to be decriminalized for purely logical and legal reasons irrespective of any imagined safety issues.

[heartuvgold]

@RyuDarragh I guess you never heard of a Hooka bar?

If marijuana were legal I would smoke it instead of cigarettes. The reason it's not is that there's a lot more money for the government in it being illegal. And I hate the way they want to make everything that's helpful to people illegal and most of us know that they're the ones causing the illness anyway by Poisoning our environment then not allowing anything that helps, and calling us crazy?

[RyuDarragh]

A hooka bar in the US would immediately come under the usual Restaurant Sanitation Laws that all must obey, from lowly hot dog cart owners to great casino operators. The government is not really "poisining the environment". They don't need to. Industry and private citizens dumping crap they know they shouldn't do that just fine. Like Jeb the garage owners little drum of tansmission fluid that he dumps in the back 40 when if gets full. The government doesn't make money, they make FUD.

[afterlifeavenger]

that's not completely true when it comes to marijuana, there are ways to get the thc you need to get torched and not have any tar in your system build up because of it, such a the vaporizer which, as the name says, cooks it and turns the smoke into vapor. in layman's terms, no smoke, no problem

[RyuDarragh]

@afterlifeavenger: The same is true for tobacco, but you don't see nicotene distributed that way.

My whole point, which some apparently are already not bright enough to figure out (maybe not you, though... just the ones downthumbing my comments), is that nothing is all that safe and marijuana, like ANYTHING smoked, has it's own share of problems. The hypocrisy of the governments double standard vis alcohol and marijuana is an example of what we need to fight. Not exaggerated claims of safety.

[RyuDarragh]

@afterlifeavenger: Along those lines, I agree that, sans te smoking related hazards, marijuana is far safer then alcohol as the high it provides does not require the liver to detoxify free radicals and metabolic byproducts. It's also less addictive than nicotene, but hardly as pleasent a taste as tobacco can provide and shares the same burden of hazards in tar and CO as tobacco.

[wielderofdrumstix]

@RyuDarragh aahhh, I agree, but have you not heard of a vaporizer before?

[RyuDarragh]

Conclusion:

Safety (smoked) a little better than tobacco.

Infused/extracted (THC) much safer than nicotene. Also vastly safer than alcohol, but shares the same hazards while intoxicated (driving, operating heavy machinery, etc.).

We humans *suck* at evaluating risk.

You can go out into a field of flowers and drink in natures bounty and get a John Denver "Rocky Mountain High",... and step on a rattler, get bitten, and die.

Use a little common sense and enjoy.

[zbigniewzapora]

Unfortunately text in movie is unreadable. Would be great if we could get higher bitrate version

[bnfox]

would have been great - can barely read the text....

[TheCannabisChannel]

excellent video with great info. nice job :)

[handoverback]

Got HD?

[GtheMVP]

You can barely read the text in this, maybe you should increse the font, great vid though :)

[maidenak]

Would have been nice if the info at the beginning was clear enough to read.

[fox20012]

seriously! I'm not going to tell you how i know, but seriously... u can seriously overdose on MJ

[compelled2283]

There has never been a documented case of marijuana overdose.

[fox20012]

That is a load of bull shit and i love MJ, but I like the truth more dude, the person I know was vomiting all of the floor and seeing aliens plus they felt like they were dying and shit, so stick that in your pipe and smoke it

[BloodMech21]

Grats on not knowing what it means to OD

[Stuttisco]

You sure it was Cannabis?

[3190423]

@fox20012

Coincidentally... was this person drinking alcohol and smoking tobacco as well at the time?

[fox20012]

No it was some one who rarely smokes and the stupid friends gave them a bucket lol

[PRIMExPRODIGY]

@fox20012 ...

[Tumppe1337]

@fox20012 you cant od from reefer... you´ll just pass out

[MrGreendayfan2013]

@fox20012 Obviously, if you wont tell us then you cant. You literally can not overdose on pot. It's never been fucking done.

[AlphaLinkX]

@fox20012 Indeed, you can overdose on Marijuana. However, you would die from the smoke long, long before the multiple tons of marijuana you would have to smoke would kill you.

[AlphaLinkX]

@fox20012 Also, nobody has smoked that much marijuana to be able to overdose. Not once.

[chessonmyshirt]

@AlphaLinkX Mainly because for you to die from a Marijuana overdose you would have to smoke 144,000 joints in an hour, but you would fall asleep by the time you hit the 10th joint.

[AlphaLinkX]

@chessonmyshirt I had thought it was 144,000 joints in a day? Hmm, even less toxic then I had originally thought.

[Hopefl1]

Hey compelled. You should talk to my friend Ann. she works in mental health and people are now showing up from marijuana use. THC levels have been elevated to new levels. Not like the old days anymore.

[GtheMVP]

MJ is not their problem. I can see it affecting anyone negatively, but no one is saying to blunt it up all day 24-7

[nocturne1980]

I don't understand why we don't use hemp practically. I understand the history and politics behind making it illegal...but why can't we start thinking at this point? Further prooves to me that evolution is garbage...because we can't even evolve on a basic level concerning our survival. Peace.

[SENTIENTMIND]

good vid by the way ;D

[compelled2283]

Yeah...thought u might like it. You guys keep up the good work!

[SENTIENTMIND]

don't know why peeps would give it one star so i've rated it 5 stars twice now ;D yeah if ya wanna use our footage to make clips go for it ;D

[SENTIENTMIND]

what's this??? ;D

[3190423]

@SENTIENTMIND

Loss of short term memory? Count to 10 test! :-P