This destroys one of our strongest arguments for legalizing marijuana. And if you think this story (below) is bullshit, I suggest you read it more carefully.

I started reading the piece and felt confident we could easily argue against each point. They mention that "hash smoking puts a strain on the heart and that blood pressure rises". We could simply point out that typical exercise does the same.

(Getting published in an international journal did scare me a bit.)

I always argued that marijuana never killed anyone by pointing out the absurdly huge doses given to various animals without doing major harm. (I read in international journal that they once forced a monkey to smoke five pounds of high-quality Lebanese hash in two hours while watching a physics
lecture on quantum mechanics. The monkey was never right again, but he didn't die.)

But it was like getting hit by a truck when I read the one important detail that most of you probably missed. Read this evidence carefully: "The autopsies showed the six persons did not have substances other than THC, the active component of hash, in their bodies."

I know we can easily show even absurd doses don't kill people. But if these poor souls in Norway replaced all substances in their bodies with hash, do any of us really doubt they clearly died from cannabis? I think we are going to have to go into evade mode on this one. They got us by the short ones.


Carmen Yarrusso