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[CortJstr]

No, no, it's actually possible to break your cells with too much water.  I'd CJ it, but I'll leave that to the pros.

WE TALKED ABOUT THIS

Is it possible to drink too much water? Several comedians found it necessary to comment: Sure, you could drown! But the fact is, in extreme circumstances too much water can kill you, even if all you do is drink it. Kelly Barrett, a 43-year-old pediatric dentist from Littleton, Colorado, died of a condition known as hyponatremia after drinking too much water during the 1998 Chicago marathon. Hyponatremia, AKA water intoxication, occurs when the body's salt and water levels get dangerously out of balance, leading to swelling of the brain and leakage of fluid into the lungs. It can occur when athletes, hikers, etc., sweat heavily, losing both salt and water, but replace only water. Diagnostic signs: dizziness, disorientation, headaches, extreme fatigue, death. Prevention: salty snacks and sports drinks. So pass the taco chips and Gatorade, bubba, and let's get healthy.

http://www.straightdope.com/columns/020208.html

[theinevitable]

yeah, I know it is possible to OD on whatever chemical is in marijuana. but they've done studies, and proved that it is physicially impossible to inhale enough of it at once to achieve this level. the only way to have such a massive dose in your body at the same time is to inject it. which, I mean, people don't do that.

[swinehund]

From what I've read, hyponatremia is further only a risk if you've been working out long or hard enough to damage the muscles beyond a certain point (ie. marathon distances). Running in a half marathon (assuming you had trained for it properly), for example, probably wouldn't be enough to cause much risk no matter how much water you drank.

The reason this was a problem was because the hydration advice was to just drink as much as you could stand to, regardless of thirst. That turns out to be too much if there is significant muscle trauma. I heard currently, they have scales at every water stop in some marathons, and you're supposed to just drink enough to keep yourself at the same weight throughout the race.

[KeithHernandez]

Dude, you can die from an OD on water. I'm pretty sure anything can kill you in large enough quantities.

The thing is that it is basically impossible to get that much marijuana in your system that quickly.  It has a ridiculous OD amount and you would pass out/be to stoned to keep smoking/eating/whatever way before you even came close.  You could do it, but only if you like had someone there to put some type of marijuana extract in your veins after you have passed out.  No normal use will ever make you OD.

I mean I'm not arguing that we should all go out and you know.. do a bunch of acid or anything, I am just saying that's really really odd.

Lame.  Anyways, this reminds me of the Bill Hicks joke where he is all like the should put good acid stories on the news, not just man jumps off of tall building trying to fly, but man discovers that we are all connected and that are bodies are just bullshit (or something).  Anyways, about people jumping off buildings, he says you fly from the ground.  You don't see birds taking the elevators to the tops of buildings and then flying.

There are definately some people who shouldn't do acid or any psychedelic really.  I have tripped with one, and it was not fun.  Luckily responsibility is something that you do not loose while trippng so I was able to calm him down.

[Doc]

I recall from an old pharmacology course I did that LSD is one of the few non-addictive recreational drugs out there. I think that should have some bearing on it's legality since addiction is the source of a lot of the problems relating to major drugs. Of course there is also something to be said for regulating a substance that makes you see crazy shit too.

Just for the record from memory weed is addictive but somewhere below the cigarettes level.

[KeithHernandez]

Weed is psychologically addictive but not physically, from what I understand.  I did read some blog once were the author thought that weed may be physically addictive, but since it leaves your system so slowly it happens over a period of a month and is not that bad.


All of what I know comes from pro-drug sources, that is why I rarely present anything as fact in arguments of this type.  However, anti-drug sources are way more biased in my opinion.

[robot_god]

That is why I only smoke Natural American Spirit hand rolled.

K, you should switch to the machine rolled American Spirits.  Have you ever smoked them?, it's insane, the amount of tobacco thats crammed in.  Insane.




But it sounds like you should take the step and become a cigar smoker.


Join the dark side.

[KeithHernandez]

Yea, I am a college student so I can't really do that.  I love the Black box American Spirits though, you should try those.  They are called perique, which means they age them in whiskey barrels.  It gives it a nice flavour.  With the hand rolleds I can smoke for a dollar a day and still have a great cigarette, both of those are pretty important to me.

[slink]

yeah, I know it is possible to OD on whatever chemical is in marijuana. but they've done studies, and proved that it is physicially impossible to inhale enough of it at once to achieve this level. the only way to have such a massive dose in your body at the same time is to inject it. which, I mean, people don't do that.

I don't know, back in the day I might have tried, but then my tolerance had just gotten silly for a while.
I'm now at a point where I haven't smoked in a while and it doesn't take much to get me really relaxed. That said, two days and I could be back to being able to smoke 24/7 quite easily. I'm just so not going to let that happen again. I'm too old for it now.