Question about the misuse of drugs act.

Why TUT TUT? Cannabis is a safer drug than alcohol ... and yet you are allowed to drink

90% of illegal drugs are safer than alcohol :) Although ive seen people get more mentally ill with cannabis than harder drugs.

But back on topic 2 joints here i think police would just take it and just give you a warning on the spot and nothing more.
 
I would like to thank the mods for keeping this open (Burnsy?) as i know the content is a little risqué but I have learnt some interesting things here today.
 
Medical dictionaries generally define an overdose as

A drug overdose is the accidental or intentional use of a drug or medicine in an amount that is higher than is normally used.

So in that case, Slinky is right. However, in the real world, nobody in a medical profession would use the term 'overdose' to describe getting too stoned and passing out - if they had to, it'd be a mild overdose followed by a clarification to ensure the term is not taken to mean potentially harmful or lethal dosage. Several members of my family are nurses and one's a doctor, I work in a lab and many of my friends are doctors and nurses from all areas of healthcare - not one of my colleagues, friends or associates would consider over-indulgence to be an overdose in clinically-understood terms.

By the way, that youtube clip reminds me of the early episodes from season 3 of The Inbetweeners - Will's "I'm in a bubble, and everything is flat. Time is going really, really slowly. I think I'm dying."
 
By the way, that youtube clip reminds me of the early episodes from season 3 of The Inbetweeners - Will's "I'm in a bubble, and everything is flat. Time is going really, really slowly. I think I'm dying."

That's what I thought the clip was going to be!

"You need to call an ambulance right now. I can't use the phone. My arms don't work and my hands are sausages!"

then his arms keep moving of their own accord, I did laugh at that sketch :D
 
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Medical dictionaries generally define an overdose as



So in that case, Slinky is right. However, in the real world, nobody in a medical profession would use the term 'overdose' to describe getting too stoned and passing out - if they had to, it'd be a mild overdose followed by a clarification to ensure the term is not taken to mean potentially harmful or lethal dosage. Several members of my family are nurses and one's a doctor, I work in a lab and many of my friends are doctors and nurses from all areas of healthcare - not one of my colleagues, friends or associates would consider over-indulgence to be an overdose in clinically-understood terms.

By the way, that youtube clip reminds me of the early episodes from season 3 of The Inbetweeners - Will's "I'm in a bubble, and everything is flat. Time is going really, really slowly. I think I'm dying."

Dictionaries define it the same way too. That's what the word means, I don't know what the point in peoplehaving a go at me for saying overdose is an over dose.

When I used it, I was trying to explain what a whitey was. In that context overdose was exactly what I meant to use, and in a manner consistant with the dictionary definition.

General Discussion, where deliberate misunderstanding is taken to the extremes.
 
Dictionaries define it the same way too. That's what the word means, I don't know what the point in peoplehaving a go at me for saying overdose is an over dose.

When I used it, I was trying to explain what a whitey was. In that context overdose was exactly what I meant to use, and in a manner consistant with the dictionary definition.

General Discussion, where deliberate misunderstanding is taken to the extremes.

I gave flogging my chosen horse a while ago, just roll up joint and chill

oh wait!
 
I'm actually about to have a joint, if I'm completely honest.

A nice bit of Aberdeen Angus from Markies. Never bought a ready to roast bit of meat from them before, I only grabbed it because I was grabbing some cooked chicken and they had it reduced to a fiver.
 
Straight from Wikipedia:

The ratio of cannabis material required to produce a fatal overdose to the amount required to saturate cannabinoid receptors and cause intoxication is approximately 40,000:1; it is extremely difficult to overdose by smoking marijuana; a typical marijuana "joint" contains less than 10 mg of THC, and one would have to smoke thousands of those in a short period of time to approach toxic levels. According to a 2006 United Kingdom government report, using cannabis is much less dangerous than tobacco, prescription drugs, and alcohol in social harms, physical harm, and addiction.
 
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Basically, the same sort of assertations that David Nutt was fired for. Personally, I view it in the same light as homosexuality - it's a mistake in the law, one that will inevitably be corrected as soon as enough people pull their heads out of their backsides long enough to recognise that the sources of their misinformation (fatuous tabloids, conservative [not in the party-affiliation sense] politicians and that zealous bunch of brainfarts who somehow believe they have a monopoly on moral decency and an inherited duty to impose it on others, yea, e'en through the boundaries of all reason and sense) have got it wrong and they've woken from a life-long wallowing in syrupy ignorance with the rancid taste of arse gravy filling their mouths and noses. I'd say legalisation will be well on its way to becoming reality by the latter part of this decade.
 
Basically, the same sort of assertations that David Nutt was fired for. Personally, I view it in the same light as homosexuality - it's a mistake in the law, one that will inevitably be corrected as soon as enough people pull their heads out of their backsides long enough to recognise that the sources of their misinformation (fatuous tabloids, conservative [not in the party-affiliation sense] politicians and that zealous bunch of brainfarts who somehow believe they have a monopoly on moral decency and an inherited duty to impose it on others, yea, e'en through the boundaries of all reason and sense) have got it wrong and they've woken from a life-long wallowing in syrupy ignorance with the rancid taste of arse gravy filling their mouths and noses. I'd say legalisation will be well on its way to becoming reality by the latter part of this decade.

It better hurry up as we'll be dead next December! May as well be high as a kite for it!
 
It better hurry up as we'll be dead next December! May as well be high as a kite for it!

I have my own views on that as well - somehow people have interpreted 2012 to be some sort of disaster where humanity is wiped out, but with the (tenuous at best) evidence at hand all that's really indicated (vaguely) is a shift in humanity's path. I'm all in favour of a move away from the failed system that's led us into the crap society has been basking in for the last hundred years or more.
 
There is no evidence for 2012 at all. It's not shaky or tenuous at best. It's entirely fake. It's based on nothing. There have been hundreds of apocalyptic events prophesised, and so far the success rate is 0%. That's stastically enough to make a preduction on 2012. The people who keep talking about it are the ones selling books.
 
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