Anyone with common sense will say without a doubt that cannabis its self does not kill. While it may be lumped under drugs like cocaine, crack and heroin, all drugs that are extremely lethal, the plant has never killed anyone. The D.E.A. has co-signed that commonly held notion.
Per The Cannabist
Cannabis connoisseurs have been saying for years that marijuana is a safer recreational substance than alcohol. Now they can use the DEA to back up their argument.
“No deaths from overdose of marijuana have been reported,” the DEA wrote in the 2017 resource guide titled Drugs of Abuse. The guide offers the lay of the land in terms of illicit drug consumption across America today. The fact that there are no reported deaths due to cannabis overdose means that marijuana is demonstrably safer than liquor, which causes approximately 6 deaths every day due to alcohol poisoning.
The guide also noted that the effects of cannabis included “merriment,” “happiness,” “enhanced sensory perception,” “increased appreciation of music, art and touch,” and “heightened imagination.”
That admittance is stunning considering that cannabis still sits as a Class I controlled substance.
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