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LiviaOlivia Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-20-04 03:34 AM
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Cannabis killed regular smoker, inquest finds
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January 20, 2004 - 4:57PM

A 36-year-old man is believed to have become the first person in Britain to die directly from cannabis poisoning, after smoking six cannabis cigarettes a day for 11 years.

The death of Lee Maisey, which was registered as having been caused by cannabis toxicity, led to new warnings about the drug, which is due to be reclassified this month as a less dangerous one.

"This type of death is extremely rare," Professor John Henry, a toxicologist at Imperial College, London, said after an inquest at Haverfordwest, west Wales.

"I have not seen anything like this before. It corrects the argument that cannabis cannot kill anybody."

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http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/01/20/1074360755990.html

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