Unfortunately, there was a first documented death case. A dock worker was killed when a container fell on his head due to a broken chain. The container contained hashish, making him the first officially documented cannabis death according to the song „Hank Died from a Hashish Overdose.“
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Götz Wiedmann is a well-known musician in the scene who once wrote lyrics about a song dealing with cannabis deaths.
Götz Wiedmann Apologized for False Report
Götz Wiedmann1 later apologized for this false statement and declared Hank the first documented European hashish death. During a trip to Australia to the village of Nimbin, where immigrant citizens form the political majority in the community and legalized cannabis, there is a museum. Here, the first documented hashish death is documented. A truck driver veered off the road and hit an obstacle, the cargo shifted forward and killed him. The cargo was hashish. According to these sources, there are now two medically documented hashish deaths.
If too much falls on your head at once, it can be fatal. Maybe marijuana flowers are safer for that reason?
Why There Are So Incredibly Many Cannabis Deaths
According to scientific findings, one cannot die from cannabis consumption, as it is practically impossible to absorb so many active compounds in a short time that it would be fatal.
One could even eat a pound of hashish or highly concentrated extracts and would still not die after unpleasant long hours, though one might think so during those hours.
Why then are there new cannabis deaths in the newspapers every three months? Because it sells so well and is a desired false report.
There are cases where people could not bear their lives and killed themselves. There are cases where a cause of death is not clearly established. Perhaps even in fatal accidents, they become cannabis deaths when those affected had smoked beforehand and active compounds can be found in the blood.
If ropes were still predominantly made from hemp, probably everyone who hanged themselves would be cannabis deaths.
Somehow, some must adjust their prohibition statistics as desired and others must sell their newspapers. What no one is interested in, however, is the point that even cannabis deaths attributable to consumption are no justification for such patronizing of supposedly free, independent, and self-determined adult citizens. It cannot be right and is not feasible to ban everything with which one might possibly harm oneself, and this also applies to cannabis.
Why Do We Still Have Cannabis Deaths in the Statistics?
Of course, it cannot be that there are no cannabis deaths that can be traced back to consumption acts. Even cannabis adulterated with lead was not directly deadly, but will only significantly reduce the joy of life and life expectancy of those affected, but this can also be traced back to the lead and not to the cannabis.
That adulterants in marijuana or hashish do not pose significant health hazards has certainly never been claimed by anyone and is a reason for the legalization of cannabis so that quality can be controlled.
From official statistics that record drug deaths, according to Hanfjournal, there are currently more and more recorded cannabis deaths. The already mentioned derivations of why they are cannabis deaths are usually not included in the calculation, as they are usually refuted by knowledgeable persons after media reports subside.
Despite these numbers in the statistics, not one person dies from enjoying products of the hemp plant. Only the deaths that can be traced back to synthetic cannabinoids are recorded together with cannabis as cannabis deaths. However, these are incomparable substance areas, even if they are technically cannabinoids, and thus these surveys are extremely and deliberately misleading.
Many of those who died from synthetic cannabinoids are said to have died not directly from the active compounds, but from the accidents that occurred afterward. Their number is unfortunately increasing significantly in percentage terms, especially after the EU ruling that legal highs do not fall under pharmaceutical law, but accounts for only a few percent of drug deaths.
Perhaps in certain circles, the number is only mentioned quietly, but the percentage increase is loud and emphasized for dramatic effect?
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