Just the Facts: Marijuana is safe according to the CDC???

Marijuana is a deadly drug! Well.. maybe not..

For this installment of Just the Facts, we will thoroughly research the CDC to answer the question –

Is Marijuana a deadly drug?

Methodology of research – We will research http://www.cdc.gov using Google.com
site search feature to determine the lethality of the drug vs the justification of expending billions of our tax dollars in a futile attempt to eradicate a simple plant. President Obama has in fact INCREASED drug war funding.

SPOILER ALERT. If you don't want to review the cdc.gov website below for Marijuana facts, let me just tell you there are NO DEATHS from Marijuana use. The government officials calling Marijuana a deadly drug are lying to you.

Frankly, we all know that if the Government had ANYstatistics on Marijuana deaths they would parade them through the streets like the holy grail. The fact is: Marijuana is unique because it is all natural, inmany cases a completely organically grown and safe therapeutic substance.

That is right, it is not only safe, but good for you. We will get into that in another blog post.

So here we go, to the government data center, the clearinghouse for all data on our dying - http://www.CDC.gov

Marijuana use in the United States - According to the National Survey on Drug Use and Health 2007 – Google Search

14.4 million Americans aged 12 or older were willing to admit a government survey to using marijuana at least once IN THE MONTH prior to being surveyed.

I'd say it a little differently - 14.4 Million Americans were actually willing to answer a government survey honestly and admit it, despite the war on drugs. Quadruple that to even get close.

So with that number in hand, we should have some death numbers.

Cigarette Smoking Deaths - CDC Google Search You will find several fact sheets:

The adverse health effects from cigarette smoking account for an estimated 443,000 deaths, or nearly 1 of every 5 deaths, each year in the United States. More deaths are caused each year by tobacco use than by all deaths from human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), illegal drug use, alcohol use, motor vehicle injuries, suicides, and murders combined. Link

Alcohol Related Deaths – CDC Google Search You will find several fact sheets including

Number of alcoholic liver disease deaths: 13,050
Number of alcohol-induced deaths, excluding accidents and homicides: 22,073
So that is: 35,123 Link

Prescription Drug Overdose– CDC Google Search You will again find several handy dandy fact sheets including this Fact Sheet in Adobe .pdf format – Click HereBetween

1999 and 2005, the annual number of unintentional drug overdose deaths in the United States more than doubled—from 11,155 to 22,448 … By 2007, more teenagers used opioid analgesics recreationally than used
marijuana.

Marijuana
The federal and state governments wastes billions and billions of your tax dollars imprisoning peopleand waging war on a naturally growing weed. Howmany deaths per year justify that expenditure that quantity of our tax dollars not to mention the destruction on people’s lives? Surely,the CDC must have a Marijuana Use Mortality Fact Sheet – no they don’t. It doesn’t exist.

Surely, it must be more than at least alcohol or the 7,600 deaths per year by Aspirin, Advil, Tylenol, etc?

Source: Annals of Internal Medicine (Washington, DC: American College of Physicians, 1997),
September 15, 1997, 127:429-438. http://www.annals.org/content/127/6/429.full.pdf

Unfortunately for the prohibitionist, there are no deaths attributed directly to Marijuana use. NONE. And the number of accidental deaths BLAMED on marijuana, are negligible. CDC Google Search

The fact is Marijuana is safe. It does not cause cancer and there are no mortality statistics for marijuana. Why? Because it is not deadly.

Humorously from a CDC Marijuana Mortality Google Search you will find this mortality report – the signs and symptoms of accidental Marijuana ingestion .. mind you these symptoms arefrom the onset after eating a brownie

Drowsiness, fatigue, weakness, dizziness, ataxia, headache, giddiness, numbness, altered taste, increased appetite, itching

What a light weight! Nonetheless, even accidental brownie ingestion does not cause death.

Child birth is much more deadly.

So why are our tax dollars being wasted? Why are people put in jail? Why are our cops wasting their time crawling around fields when they could be fighting actual crime?

Legalize in November