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turbosloth

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Iron Mal said:
turbosloth said:
I understand what you're saying and I agree that it is an extremely unlikely occurance and that as far as substances go THC is one of the least harmful (to my knowledge) and the possibility of a fatality is not what would lead me to believe that it should be made illegal (given it's laughably small chance of killing someone this would be like banning the use of bandages because some idiot somewhere could strangle themself with them), there is a possibility if not much of a probability (argueably, the part about every substance being able to kill you is that for many examples it happens to be under rare and strange circumstances but then again, these circumstances do occur from time to time).

Also, about you saying that because something was not reccorded or reported that it did not happen, allow me to introduce you to the sociological concept of the 'dark figure of crime', this is the number of crimes that occur that do not get reported (for example: victimless crimes, crimes where the victim is reluctant to report, cases where the police do not believe the crime warrents their attention among many others). These crimes still happened even if the statistics say otherwise (absence of evidence is not evidence of absence).
Oh, i didn't mean to suggest that just because something isn't reported it didn't happen as a general principal, just express my extreme confidence that human deaths from marijuana consumption have never been reported because they have not occurred. I'm aware that many unreported events of all kinds happen every day, including crimes as well as, I'm sure, interesting scientific phenomena. I'm 99.9999999999999999% sure these events have never included a death from marijuana use, however...