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Marijuana addicts always argue you can't OD on pot, but they are wrong. Many have been sent to the hospital after OD and some suffer life-threatening heart arrhythmias and mental psychoses. Its up to the voters in each State to decide if they want to legalize it, but it should not be promoted as something totally harmless.

‘Poisonous’ level of marijuana in caterer’s food derails wedding, Florida lawsuit says
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/state/florida/article269352377.html#storylink=cpy
A woman who attended a wedding in Florida is suing the event’s caterer, accusing her of serving guests food infused with “poisonous” levels of marijuana.

The event meant for celebrating two newlyweds turned to chaos, as deputies arrived to find guests complaining of feeling “high” or “stoned” at the Feb. 19 reception in Longwood, a city 15 miles north of Orlando, according to a report from the Seminole County Sheriff’s Office.When authorities showed up, first responders were already treating several sick guests and a few attendees were sent to a hospital.

Samples of food served at the event were sent to a lab for testing, the report shows. Lab results revealed lasagna and bread tested positive for THC, an active ingredient in marijuana.

 

While it is considered a “poisoning” when any unwanted effects occur, lethal toxicity to marijuana is almost impossible.

That said anyone that drugs others without consent should have the book thrown at them. Marijuana needs to be decriminalized on the federal level as if this was a heroin “poising” or any other schedule 1 drug this story would be much different.

 

Back in college we created the one ounce joint and shared amongst just 3 of us. There was no OD'ing going on. Now, if someone who has never encountered THC consumes it or tries for the 1st time, then I have seen people have negative affects since they are not prepared for the effects and mentally they flip out due to overreacting.

 

Careful out there folks. Marijuana poisoning is no joke. The pot Psycho-Toxins are just that, - toxins.

 

Well sure. And if they'd ground up a bunch of tylenol into the food, same thing or worse woulda happened. The crime should be violating consent.

Prolly anything is poisenous in high enough doses. Did this food just have marijuana leaves ground up in it, or was it some refined version of THC like an extract or something?

 

The part which doesn't make any sense is why the caterer, a reputable business, would spike their own product with illegal substances knowing it can destroy their reputation.

 

This is a poorly written article. Does anyone actually know HOW many grams of an edible you need to die from the effects? It’s a lot. A small amount goes a long way so eating an entire chocolate bar would make you feel poorly, but it’s not toxic. https://silverstemcannabis.com/cannabis-products/chocolate/incredibles-monkey-bar-200mg-med-2367

That’s supposed to be 10 individual bites. Now, why the caterer did this is more like why did an outside party add an edible to the food. Or maybe the caterer DID do. The thing is, it’s expensive to add this, why would they do that for free?

 

You're beginning to sound like Alex Berenson in his fear of pot.

Experimental serums with Graphene Oxide are good in your view, especially when mandated by government, but pot is not.

FYI in 1981 a federal administrative law judge Francis Young found that marijuana was the "safest therapeutic substance known to man" after 3 days of hearings.

 

I do not fear it since I don't use it, and I am ok with legalization if that is what citizens want. I am actually against authoritarian State governments, like the one in Florida, who forbid it from even getting on to the ballots, even when majority of voters favor legalization. However, if it is legalized IMO it would be a good idea to have a warning on the packaging, like there is on cigarettes & booze, about the potential dangers of using it.

 

Most likely some employee.

 

But you back shot mandates during these last few years, suggesting you tend to favor authoritarianism regarding bodily autonomy.

We are all so full of contradictions, eh?

 

What does 'back shot' mean?

 

Substitute "support" for "back".

 

Back in the college days the “ditch weed” we smoked was just enough to get a buzz. Then plant science got involved and created strains that are sending people into the psychosis zone.

 

Ok, so what do you mean I supported them? How does one 'support' a mask mandate? I wore one when a business owner requested for it. I support the right of a business owner to decide if they want their customers to wear a mask (or shirt, or shoes) or not. I do not support State government forcing their hand, which is what happened in Florida. That's authoritarian.

Back to topic maybe? I am not the topic.

Yes. A friend of mine stayed at a South Beach hotel and smoked some strong weed. After a while he found himself wandering around a back street in his underwear, not knowing where he was going or where he was coming from.

 

You are aware how abnormal that is, yes? There are millions of Americans smoking the good stuff (not trashy mexican shwag that's been the past for 10 years) on a daily basis and they don't go wandering around in their underwear. That's exactly as likely as someone drinking tequila and going around in their underwear.

 

Or breaking into people's homes and sleeping on their couch....

https://www.kaaltv.com/archive/sher...into-house-while-drunk-falls-asleep-on-couch/

 

I agree with your point of view, but you have to consider alcohol is legal...So yea, much worse can happen when people simply drink too much.

This isn't much different then guests overreacting to spiked beverages.

 

Sure. And I said I am ok with legalization of that is what the citizens want.

 

Ironically, eating the pot based food only made folks more hungry......

 

Its not an OD, they felt stoned and weren't people who had intentionally imbibed an intoxicant and so grew alarmed.
FFS.

People get sent to the hospital because they're a ****ing square and have a panic attack because someone slipped them something they have no schemas for dealing with.

You slip someone something, that's legally speaking "poisoning" them.

 

I will literally sit there and consume any amount of marijuana you want to test. An OD is not physically possible, even with extracts.

 

It was marijuana poisoning aka OD. Some had to be hospitalized.

OD = An overdose is when you take more than the normal or recommended amount of something, often a drug. An overdose may result in serious, harmful symptoms or death.

 

Isn't heroin a schedule 2 drug?

 

Grinding up weed into something isn't likely to work well if at all.
Edibles are made by extracting the active cannabinoids by cooking the ground herb in a fat at a particular low temperature, after first baking it for a bit at a low temp to decarboxylize (turning THC-A into delta9THC) it so it will readily attach to the fat and be bioavailable. You then cook with that fat or oil, being careful not to get it too hot as it will ruin the product.
If it was in lasagna it was likely cooked into the sauce and/or meat or poured on when the lasagna hit the oven. Likely in the garlic butter for the bread.

This wasn't a poisoning episode, except in a legal sense. No one is going to die, or suffer some horrifying side effect. They're not going to get jake leg. They're not going to have a brain injury, or pass out and choke on their own sick.