Comments on: Amy Winehouse suffers from marijuana poisoning? http://stash.norml.org/amy-winehouse-suffers-from-marijuana-poisoning The Growing Truth About Cannabis Sun, 22 Nov 2009 02:00:06 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: "Radical" Russ http://stash.norml.org/amy-winehouse-suffers-from-marijuana-poisoning/comment-page-1#comment-1410 "Radical" Russ Wed, 03 Sep 2008 16:04:51 +0000 http://stash.norml.org/?p=1510#comment-1410 It is true that you can die from an overdose of water. You cannot die from an overdose of cannabis, unless you smoke the equivalent of 1500 lbs. in less than an hour. However, I would still not call overdosing on water a "poisoning", since it's not the toxicity of the water that kills you, it's the bursting of your cells due to too much hydration. <a href="http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=poison&r=65" rel="nofollow">poi·son</a> –noun 1. a substance with an inherent property that tends to destroy life or impair health. ... –verb (used with object) 4. to administer poison to (a person or animal). 5. to kill or injure with or as if with poison. 6. to put poison into or upon; saturate with poison: to poison food. So I'd argue that neither water nor cannabis have an inherent property to destroy life and health. It is true that you can die from an overdose of water. You cannot die from an overdose of cannabis, unless you smoke the equivalent of 1500 lbs. in less than an hour.

However, I would still not call overdosing on water a “poisoning”, since it’s not the toxicity of the water that kills you, it’s the bursting of your cells due to too much hydration.

poi·son
–noun
1. a substance with an inherent property that tends to destroy life or impair health.
…
–verb (used with object)
4. to administer poison to (a person or animal).
5. to kill or injure with or as if with poison.
6. to put poison into or upon; saturate with poison: to poison food.

So I’d argue that neither water nor cannabis have an inherent property to destroy life and health.

]]> By: Steve http://stash.norml.org/amy-winehouse-suffers-from-marijuana-poisoning/comment-page-1#comment-1409 Steve Wed, 03 Sep 2008 15:25:24 +0000 http://stash.norml.org/?p=1510#comment-1409 You can poison yourself with water, too. Toxicity doesn't matter, it's just that too much of ANYTHING is bad for you. You can poison yourself with water, too. Toxicity doesn’t matter, it’s just that too much of ANYTHING is bad for you.

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