Submitted by jungle_dave on
Geelong: A university student has died at his parent’s home of an apparent marijuana overdose.
This is the first case like this recorded in Australia and will surely spark huge concern about the health of the nation’s youth.
Jonathan Grundy was an exemplary student and talented footie player according to his uncle, Peter Pollard.
“He was a great kid, I am surprised he got mixed up with drugs, I reckon it was all those lefty pinko artist types he met at university in Melbourne, we are all happy with a stubby in Geelong”
He was found slumped into a half eaten pizza, joystick still in hand. He had been playing World of Warcraft and taking hits from a bong.
Anti-drug campaigner Barry Trottelmann told us “Cannabis is known to be a killer, the active ingredient THC fuses the synapses in the brain and the victims simply forget to breath, this is what is known as monging out”
When asked for comment, Robert Smith of the Bogan Liberation Front, a political party fighting for an independent bogan homeland in South Australia said:
“Dangerous drugs like cannabis kill hundreds of young Australians every year and prevent many others reaching their full potential as sports men through the way that it encourages metrosexual activity“
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fluxpox replied on Permalink
I would really like sources on this one, I have never in my life, heard or read any text claiming that one can die from smoking too much cannabis.
Wikipedia claims that it has never happened before so this must be the first ever.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/THC#cite_ref-Walker_and_Huang_14-0
Furthermore the wikipedia article states that to OD "1500 pounds (680 kilograms) of cannabis would have to be smoked within 14 minutes."
Jayelle Farmer replied on Permalink
>Wikipedia claims that it has never happened before so this must be the first ever.
It's propaganda against cannabis. Amazingly, even the Australian government says so.
http://tiny.cc/5hntb
"There have been no deaths recorded as a result of cannabis intoxication."
Jayson Gawthorpe replied on Permalink
There are several reasons this article is full of bull. 1)The brain centers (hind brain) that are responsible for breathing have NO cannabinoid receptors. Therefore it is impossible to "forget" to breath while under the influence of pot. 2) THC does not "fuse" to synapses. It activates Cannabinoid receptors, but these are not in the synapse, nor are they all over the brain. Fusing to these receptors has no direct effect on the synapse. 3) It is nearly impossible to OD on marijuana. 4) No source - I don't believe this actually happened. I think this is a BS story written by someone who was too dumb to realize it would be seen as fake. and 5) Barry Trottelmann does not seem to exist. If he does exist he has no credentials and probably shouldn't be talking about such complex things as drugs and synapses.
Where is my source you ask? Lets start with my credentials - I'm a doctoral candidate in a clinical psychology graduate program. I have a few publications on alcohol and cognition - while this isn't marijuana research it certainly shows that I now my brain chemistry. And finally a solid source: Buzzed: The straight facts about the most used and abused drugs. by Kuhn, swartzwelder, and Wilson.
As a friend pointed out: the author may be f'in with everyone... I certainly hope so. If that is the case... you're a decent troll.
Jan replied on Permalink
I know this guy Jungle Dave, he is proper joker :)
mglinski replied on Permalink
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAH!!!!!!!!
Anyone who believes this article is a tool.
BradV replied on Permalink
Is this for real? I haven't heard about anyone who died from marijuana overdose. You can smoke until you get sick or fall asleep, but it is impossible to die by smoking too much marijuana in a session, perhaps you can die through lung cancer but not by being overdosed. This never happened in history, the amount of marijuana needed to overdose is very huge, you even have to be rich to smoke it all.
Stefan Sbasskid replied on Permalink
FYI: Trottelmann translates into moron man in german. Maybe one reason for ahm - something...
Jayelle Farmer replied on Permalink
I strongly repudiate this article in the strongest possible terms. It is nothing but Australian propaganda against the cannabis plant.
In over 40 years (41 to be exact) of campaigning for cannabis legalisation, I have NEVER read an article stating that ANYONE has died from using cannabis.
The bottom line of this article is that this person died from GAMING - probably due to an excessive amount of time playing these computer games. He is not the first person to die from gaming and probably will not be the last, unfortunately. My condolences to his family.
I believe hardly anything that comes out of Australia. Have a look at the government web site and read for yourself the medically undocumented lies that the Australian government spills into the minds of its citizens.
About the only honest thing that Oz gov says about cannabis is this:
(page 8) http://tiny.cc/5hntb
"There have been no deaths recorded as a result of cannabis intoxication."
Jayelle Farmer, Legalise Cannabis International
http://www.legaliseinternational.com/
arvidart replied on Permalink
I think not. No where in this article appears a report from a Coroner. Making the leap to a Marijuana death is beyond presumptuous. That young man could have died from any number of causes. I want to see the official autopsy report.
" Barry Trottelmann told us “Cannabis is known to be a killer, the active ingredient THC fuses the synapses in the brain and the victims simply forget to breath, this is what is known as monging out” " Never in my almost 30 years of Marijuana knowledge, and people associated with it, have I ever heard of such a thing.
Robert Smith of the Bogan Liberation Front~ "“Dangerous drugs like cannabis kill hundreds of young Australians every year and prevent many others reaching their full potential as sports men through the way that it encourages metrosexual activity“
Mr. Trottelmann, Mr. Smith, put proof where your mouth is.
Furthermore, both of you should be ashamed of yourselves for spewing such conjecture. There are hundreds of thousands of people who are genuinely helped through Marijuana. Are you insinuating that all these people are wrong? There are dozens upon dozens upon dozens of scientific reports extolling the useful and meaningful virtues of this herb. Are you insinuating that all these scientists are wrong? That they are lying? To what end?
Mr. Trottelmann, Mr. Smith, I can back up my statements, can you back up yours?
illegaldrugsare... replied on Permalink
I think this jungle_dave guy knows the facts here. He obviously is very torn up about the death of this pothead and he has a right to with hold information of an autopsy report, or maybe you know he doesn't 3 years later I have for one have heard of only this one "report" of a death supposedly caused by weed.
Make marijuana illegal-2013!
arvidart replied on Permalink
Jungle Dave,
Your story is glaringly one sided. You have no autopsy report or opposing views. Why is this?
tyc1000 replied on Permalink
Глаза боятся, а ноги делают, аж пятки сверкают.
Я всеядный, я все пью.
Эгоист - это человек, любящий себя больше, чем других эгоистов...
В дурной голове «тараканы» не свежие.
Чем старше жена археолога, тем больше она ему нравится.
Деньги пахнут: маленькие - потом, а большие - кровью.
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