It should be legal. Caveat Emptor applies always. to everything. I'd rather have choices available in a marketplace rather than a nanny state stifling innovation through its own incompetence.
Should DayQuil Be Legal?
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#212The article kinda glossed over it, but one fact under-appreciated by the general public is just how dangerous acetaminophen overdoses can be . Scientists often talk about the "therapeutic index" or "safety ratio" of a drug. It's the LD50 (dose at which 50% of recipients die) divided by the effective dose. Common hard drugs like heroin or methamphetamine have a safety ratio of about 6-10 [1]. "Soft" drugs like marijua…
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At those levels, you'd be dealing with other intense effects before you'd drop dead.
Iversen, L. L. The Science of Marijuana / Leslie L. Iversen. Oxford University Press, 2000.
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#214Earlier quoted context omitted.
> As the person holding the money, it's my job to look at what is effective and what the active ingredients are in any given product That ignores over a century of law regarding drug safety and efficacy, and false advertising.
Not to mention it ignores reality. Most consumers have neither the time now knowledge to research everything they buy. That's one of the roles of government.
So - why again does the FDA exist?
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#215The article kinda glossed over it, but one fact under-appreciated by the general public is just how dangerous acetaminophen overdoses can be . Scientists often talk about the "therapeutic index" or "safety ratio" of a drug. It's the LD50 (dose at which 50% of recipients die) divided by the effective dose. Common hard drugs like heroin or methamphetamine have a safety ratio of about 6-10 [1]. "Soft" drugs like marijua…
I'm grateful for you mentioning this. I grew up with ibuprofen as my default painkiller without really thinking of it too much but am about to do PRP which requires no NSAIDs for a week prior and 3 months after - but they do allow/recommend Tylenol as an alternative, especially for the post-procedure pain. I just would've assumed it was a sufficiently good substitute that I could treat them equivalently but now i kno…
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Dude, chill out. Everything has a fatal dose, you can literally look up the LD50 and find that it’s a big number. Nobody is coming for your weed.
I think the thing is that there is no official accepted value of LD50 for THC since there has never been a recorded death from THC: > The median lethal dose (LD50) of THC has been determined in various animal species through oral administration and ranges from 800 to 9000 mg/kg. In humans, there have been no recorded instances of fatal overdoses resulting from acute THC use. However, estimates for a potentially letha…
B. Hartung, S. Kauferstein, S. Ritz-Timme, T. Daldrup, Sudden unexpected death under acute influence of cannabis, Forensic Science International (2014), http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.forsciint.2014.02.001. Case report of two otherwise-healthy 20-something men who died of cardiac arrhythmia's following large marijuana doses.
https://3402974.fs1.hubspotusercontent-na1.net/hubfs/3402974...
Noble, M. J., Hedberg, K., & Hendrickson, R. G. (2019). Acute cannabis toxicity. Clinical Toxicology, 57(8), 735–742. https://doi.org/10.1080/15563650.2018.1548708. Clinical review of 253 Poison Center cases involving acute cannabis poisoning; 8 patients were admitted to the ICU, 3 were intubated, and 1 died.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30676820/
There's also a Heyndrickx 1969 paper that everybody cites (including my original reference on hazard ratios), but I can't find an abstract or full text anywhere on the web.
Cases of cannabis poisoning fatalities are extremely rare, but they do exist. Your citation was apparently unaware of (or possibly published before) the other cases.
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#218The article kinda glossed over it, but one fact under-appreciated by the general public is just how dangerous acetaminophen overdoses can be . Scientists often talk about the "therapeutic index" or "safety ratio" of a drug. It's the LD50 (dose at which 50% of recipients die) divided by the effective dose. Common hard drugs like heroin or methamphetamine have a safety ratio of about 6-10 [1]. "Soft" drugs like marijua…
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#219Earlier quoted context omitted.
Indeed. I like beer quite a lot and have for a very long time, so acetaminophen is banned from my medicine cabinet.
Seems like the logical thing to ban from your stomach for the time periods you need acetaminophen is the beer, unless I'm missing something.
Re: Should DayQuil Be Legal?
#220The article kinda glossed over it, but one fact under-appreciated by the general public is just how dangerous acetaminophen overdoses can be . Scientists often talk about the "therapeutic index" or "safety ratio" of a drug. It's the LD50 (dose at which 50% of recipients die) divided by the effective dose. Common hard drugs like heroin or methamphetamine have a safety ratio of about 6-10 [1]. "Soft" drugs like marijua…
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