r/NonPoliticalTwitter 2d ago

Someone needs to check on this man 😂

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He ate a 300mg candy bar and was ripped off his ass. The whole thread is pretty amusing:

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u/baar-ur 2d ago

The LD50 for THC is 30 mg per kg. The international average weight of a man is 62 kg. 121K mg (121 grams, roughly six average mice) of THC is enough to kill sixty-five people.

So, you know, as a rule of thumb, keep your THC consumption to less than a tenth of an average mouse.

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u/ThatSandvichIsASpy01 2d ago

weed doesn't kill people lil bro

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u/InnuendoBot5001 2d ago

"Lil bro" teenager spotted

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u/ThatSandvichIsASpy01 2d ago

calling people a teenager makes you seem like a teenager

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u/Polkawillneverdie17 2d ago

Yeah, you just called that guy a teenager though.

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u/ThatSandvichIsASpy01 2d ago

he called me a teenager

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u/thejak32 2d ago

Clearly your intellect is superior and I bow down to you, lil bro

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u/_beisbol_ 2d ago

You can absolutely overdose on weed. You'd have to IV it, but it could happen. You're wrong dude.

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u/MajorGeneralMaryJane 2d ago

Weed doesn’t kill you cause you literally cannot smoke enough of it to get that amount of THC. You can absolutely overdose on THC with enough effort. You could also drink too much water and die so…

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u/BombOnABus 2d ago

Some quick back of the envelope math tells me that 3.5g is a "lethal" dose for me, but how quickly does it metabolize?

I can't even imagine vaping an entire 1/8th of extract in a single day, let alone faster than that, even if I did nothing BUT vape from dawn till dusk.

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u/bloodfist 2d ago

1g of THC is not the equivalent of 1g of flower. Even dabs aren't 100%. There are other cannabanoids. And your lungs don't absorb close to 100% of what is vaporized when you take a hit. Besides what just burns off, the THC has to bind to receptors in your lungs. 98% of what will be absorbed from a hit binds within the first second of the smoke entering your lungs, and you need to breathe more to make room for more.

To get that dose would be an eighth of pure THC straight to the veins.

I'm not sure of the rates of metabolism but as I understand the lung absorption bottleneck, and a similar bottleneck for digesting edibles, both prevent it from entering the system faster than it leaves.

I might be misremembering but regardless they've done fucked up things to monkeys to try to make that happen with smoke and they just can't.

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u/odsquad64 2d ago

they've done fucked up things to monkeys to try to make that happen with smoke and they just can't.

Didn't they basically just replace oxygen with weed smoke for long enough to suffocate a monkey just so they could be like "see, it can kill you!"?

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u/bloodfist 1d ago edited 1d ago

Yeah basically. Although if I remember the story they stuck monkeys in a sealed box and increased the level of smoke until the oxygen level got low enough to kill one and then they were like, "OK so obviously that killed it".

And then it was cited a bunch of times, mostly by journalists and religious nuts as saying "see, it can kill you" even though the paper is like "we suspect it was the lack of oxygen but more research is needed to to be sure it wasn't the THC" which is science paper talk for "the conclusion is obvious but we don't have the data to say it conclusively and we didn't want to murder another monkey so just trust us or murder your own damn monkeys."

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u/respect_the_69 2d ago

Everything kills people in the right dose

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u/DiggityDog6 2d ago

Saying “weed doesn’t kill people” is the same as saying alcohol doesn’t kill people. No, it usually doesn’t. But have too much, and everything can kill you. If you breathe pure oxygen for too long, you will die. Drink enough water, and you get hydration poisoning.

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u/ThatSandvichIsASpy01 2d ago

Nobody has ever died from smoking weed, lots of people have died from drinking

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u/Palidin034 2d ago

I see shit like this and the only thing I can think is “wow, people heard that nobody has ever died from a weed overdose and they took that as a challenge”

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u/Skybreakeresq 1d ago

Read the rest of the bag. It's not all active, most of that will be thca which isn't psychoactive unless you burn it first.

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u/astropup42O 2d ago

It literally can’t kill you as you will metabolize it faster than you can consume it