Despite the Drug Enforcement Administration’s stance against marijuana, the federal agency concedes that nobody has ever died from taking too much.
In their 2017 resource guide titled Drugs of Abuse, the DEA details cannabis as a Schedule I substance that carries a high potential for abuse with no currently accepted medical use in treatment in the United States.
They ultimately admit, however, that “no deaths from overdose of marijuana have been reported.”
The guide’s pot entry continues to extol the benefits of cannabis while trying to demonize it at the same time.
The DEA notes the common effects of pot use, which includes “merriment, happiness, and even exhilaration at high doses,” as well as “enhanced sensory perception, giving rise to increased appreciation of music, art, and touch.”
Even though all that sounds pretty fantastic, the guide also warns that the trend of vaping pot concentrates via electronic cigarettes is a “disturbing aspect of this emerging threat.”
Meanwhile, liquor is nowhere to be found in the DEA resource guide, despite the fact that alcohol poisoning causes approximately six deaths a day.
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