Marijuana Overdoses Kill 37 in Colorado On First Day of Legalization

[babylonsister]

Marijuana Overdoses Kill 37 in Colorado On First Day of Legalization
Jan 02, 2014



Colorado is reconsidering its decision to legalize recreational pot following the deaths of dozens due to marijuana overdoses.

According to a report in the Rocky Mountain News, 37 people were killed across the state on January 1st, the first day the drug became legal for all adults to use. Several more are clinging onto life in local emergency rooms and are not expected to survive.

"It's complete chaos here," says Dr. Jack Shepard, chef of surgery at St. Luke's Medical Center in Denver, "I've put five college students in body bags since breakfast and more are arriving every minute.

"We are seeing cardiac arrests, hypospadias, acquired trimethylaminuria and multiple organ failures. By next week the death toll could go as high as 200, maybe 300. Someone needs to step in and stop this madness. My god, why did we legalize marijuana? What were we thinking?"

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http://dailycurrant.com/2014/01/02/marijuana-overdoses-kill-37-in-colorado-on-first-day-of-legalization/

[Egalitarian Thug]

1. In other news, Pope Francis Expands Vatican's Drone Program.

[TheCowsCameHome]

2. This was totally predictable.

(I mean coming from the Currant)

[Ghost in the Machine]

22. My first thought was The Onion, lol! Never heard of this site, thanks to the OP for posting! n/t

[Ms. Toad]

26. That was my first thought, as well. n/t

[HERVEPA]

52. Nope. Onion really does this stuff much better than the Currant

[madokie]

3. LOL

In all of recorded history I don't think I've ever read or heard of anyone OD'n on pot. I know I've been so fucked up I had to go to bed but no time did I get close to dying.

Hell there were a a few times I made whatever it was I was on my bed LOL, even a rock pile once. Slept like a baby too. Woke up sore as hell but what could one expect.

Thanks for the laugh
Hope you had a great New Year and Christmas 'sis

[MindMover]

4. The truth .... unfortunately is not funny ....

Around 50,000 people die each year from alcohol poisoning. Similarly, more than 400,000 deaths each year are attributed to tobacco smoking.

By comparison, marijuana is nontoxic and cannot cause death by overdose.

http://norml.org/marijuana

[babylonsister]

6. Pls. lighten up; it's not true and most of us

know that. Laugh a little, it's good for the soul.

[jeff47]

14. Everything is toxic in sufficient quantity.

Even drinking too much water can kill you. Sure, it takes something like drinking multiple gallons in less than an hour, but it can be done!

(My grandmother was actually hospitalized for this. Fad diet in the 70s to "cleanse" by drinking tons of water in a short period. She took it farther than recommended. Drank so much in a short time that she screwed up the electrolyte balance that makes nerves work.)

This list claims the LD50 for THC is 1,270 mg/kg

For reference, the LD50 of table sugar is 29,700 mg/kg, Caffeine is 192 mg/kg, and Sarin nerve gas is 17.23 µg/kg.

[jmowreader]

62. There's an infamous water-intoxication death

http://www.nbcnews.com/id/16614865/ns/us_news-life/t/woman-dies-after-water-drinking-contest/

Some radio shock jocks held a "Hold Your Wee for a Wi" contest, where the last person to go to the can won a video game console. It didn't go well.

[hobbit709]

70. Try eating 200 lbs of pot all at once.

That would take an elephant sized stomach.

[CreekDog]

82. MJ is deadly. For example if one stuffed a giant wad of it down their throat

they would die of asphyxiation.

[malaise]

5. Too good

[Blue Owl]

7. Cancer Rates, Violence Soars

[hootinholler]

54. To new lows. n/t

[RainDog]

8. not to mention the riots at the stores

[pipi_k]

9. Well...

at least they died happy.

[Aristus]

40. And free from cataracts, too!

Like every other prohibition in history, after it's struck down, people will be wondering what all the bother was about...

[Bennyboy]

10. OREO shortage hits CO.......

is more like it.

[loudsue]

15. Snickers! Mars candy stock is going to soar!

[rocktivity]

44. DING DING DING! Bennyboy, you're our grand prize winner!

OREO shortage hits CO is more like it.

The idea of people OD-ing on munchies -- now THAT'S satire!


rocktivity

[progressoid]

11. Doritos sales soar

[rhett o rick]

12. Yes, but they went with a smile on their faces. nm

[Triana]

13. I knew this was satire the moment I read it. If it was about alcohol...

...or tobacco, I'd believe it though.

[Coyotl]

20. No spoiler OP until post #13, a DU record.

What, are all you people in Colorado?

[silverweb]

16. Showing up & being seriously quoted...

[font color="navy" face="Verdana"]...on WorldNutDaily, FOX News, and The Blaze in 3... 2... 1...

[postulater]

17. Hypospadias! Nooooo!

[jmowreader]

64. The trimethylaminuria part was good too

I also heard it causes trichotillomania and leishmaniasis.

[Coyotl]

18. Nearly outpacing deaths related to tobacco smoking and alcohol.

Yep!

[spanone]

19. 'there wasn't a cookie left in the state'

bwahahahahahaa

[Warren DeMontague]

21. Not to mention the violence and fights started by angry high people

Two dudes on a couch got down to the last dorito, and a bloodbath ensued.

[abakan]

79. Thank you....

Your comment made my day...Thanks

[SCVDem]

23. I called bullshit after reading the title

I was just watching an episode of Emergency on ME tv about a guy going crazy and almost dieing after smoking pot at work.

Seems he was growing his own and overdosed on the PESTICIDES he was using which were banned. The contact plus the later smoking finally got him. He lived.

Remember Paraquat?

It's never the weed but the other stuff that'll get you. Besides, I thought pot didn't need pesticides.

[lunasun]

31. How much would he be growing if he needed pesticides?? Fiction show?

[WillyT]

24. Brought To You By Anheiser-Busch/Seagrams Et. Al...

& Rec !!!

[H2O Man]

25. !!!!!!

Very good. Very good, indeed!

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

27. The Daily Currant's "satire" is really lame.

[HERVEPA]

53. Absolutely. The poor person's Onion

[Ed Suspicious]

28. "chef of surgery" is a job title nobody should hold.

[Nanjing to Seoul]

29. It's madness, I tells ya. REEFER MADNESS!!!

[Codeine]

30. Dear Everyone-Who-Is-Not-The-Onion,

please stop trying to do satire.

You can't.

It's hard, and the people who can actually do it well and with consistency are all working creating content for The Onion.

[dorkzilla]

32. Amen!!!!!! n/t

[zeemike]

38. It's true, no one does satire like The Onion.

They understand the balance between absurdity and believable and draw you in with it...this piece is funny enough as a piece of satire but you can tell right away it is just that.
Satire needs to be done so that those that don't understand it will think it is real.

[sgmcenroe]

33. The Rocky Mountain News ceased to exist years ago

This post supposedly comes from the Rocky Mountain News. Well, that paper lost its battle to the Denver Post years ago, and NO LONGER EXISTS! This post if total BS.

[Kali]

56. um ... wooosh!

[valerief]

34. Ha! Love it!!!! nt

[LovingA2andMI]

35. Was this story "Borrowed"....

From the The Onion? Seriously. Overdosing on Cannabis? No freaking way!

[rocktivity]

46. No -- The Onion has perfected the recipie for satire

Take a grain of irony or inconvenient truth and bake it into a three-tiered cake with frosting.

They would have written a headline more like this one...


rocktivity

[marble falls]

36. I heard it was 38!

[tclambert]

37. Jesse Pinkman was one of the alleged victims!

"Yeah! Daily Currant!"

[Marrah_G]

39. I want to move to Colorado and open a chain of stores called "munchies"

[niyad]

42. I believe somebody beat you to it--heard there was a shop by that name going into manitou.

[Marrah_G]

47. haha awesome nt.

[yuiyoshida]

78. Does anyone know if CHEECH AND CHONG have moved to Colorado yet?

whats taking them, so long, man?

[rocktivity]

41. The Currant strikes (out) again

They just don't have a flair for satire -- The Onion they ain't.


rocktivity

[niyad]

43. I should mail this to the sheriff in pueblo, who remarked to some reporter that "we will be

regretting this in a few years". trouble is, the fool will probably take it seriously.

[Gothmog]

45. I love satire

The Daily Currant is almost as good as the Onion

[Vattel]

48. Not funny. My brother died from pot.

I smoked some weed and, like, got the munchies and ate so many Doritos that I hurled and my brother was yawning at the wrong time and my hurl went into his mouth and he choked to death on my vomit. True story man. So don't laugh. Really.

[JVS]

59. Was he a drummer for Spinal Tap?

[Vattel]

69. lol, I only plagarize from the best.

[SCVDem]

49. Death presented as reality

is not funny.

Too many morons still believe the negatives so even as satire this sucks!

[babylonsister]

55. Lighten up, Frances.

Where did that come from?

[Logical]

61. That's the fact jack! nt

[SCVDem]

66. Lighten up?

I lost my sense of humor with my unemployment, the loss of my house, retirement and health care.

Lighten up my ass!

I knew the story was crap, I just didn't find it funny!

I also don't need a personal attack. Okay for you?

[donheld]

65. Oh please

[exboyfil]

50. Satire needs to be unquestionably recognized as satire

I saw the headline and thought, "That sounds unbelievable" but it was told in a deadpan manner including a false reference to a source.

NOT FUNNY.

I have seen several stories like this recently passed forward as facts. It tends to muddy the stream.

[HERVEPA]

51. Maybe when the source is the name of a fruit you should be a bit skeptical?

[SteveG]

57. some on a right wing fundie site

that I visit were taken in by this story... hilarity ensued.

[customerserviceguy]

58. Oh, you are evil for posting this

But damned funny!

[babylonsister]

63. I aim to please! nt

[ohheckyeah]

60. Latest

Breaking News from FOX - Millions die in Colorado from marijuana use

[Sunlei]

67. you bogart state!! roooooooooollllllllll another one, pass it overrr to myyy stateeeeee

we'lllll save you, QQ !!

[B Calm]

68. The Onion?

[Zorra]

71. Acquired trimethylaminuria? There's somethin' awful fishy goin' on around here.

[jmondine]

72. False alarm! The 37 people weren't actually dead.

It turns out that the medics were too stoned to find a pulse.

[Glassunion]

73. Too f'ing funny. Hypospadias is a berth defect in men. It's where your pee pee hole is in the wrong

spot.

acquired trimethylaminuria - is basically where you smell like fish.

Holy shit, that was funny.

[Blue_In_AK]

75. My grandson had that.

They fixed it when they circumcised him. Poor little guy. He's 14 now, though, and everything works fine.

[Glassunion]

77. How old was he when they fixed it?

[Blue_In_AK]

80. Very soon after he was born,

within the first month or so.

[Glassunion]

81. I cannot imagine the discomfort of that surgury. Poor little fella.

Thankfully, he cannot remember it.

[Blue_In_AK]

83. We were all so happy when he was able to pee in his mom's face

when she changed him instead of having it just run down into his diaper. . The hole was underneath, not at the tip. I guess it's not too hard to fix when dealt with early.

[Blue_In_AK]

74. And poor Jesse Pinkman.

I had such hopes for him after he got out of the meth biz.

[yuiyoshida]

76. I CAN'T WAIT for Fox News to pick this up...

Someone send it to megyn kelly!!!