What people are saying:

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  Posted June 23rd, 2010 by Jan at 3:26 am - Reply

  I don’t think it’s correct to say that marijuana is decriminalized in Germany. At least in the state of Bavaria, the police goes after pot heads quite vigorously. What is this information based on? (The sources are illegible)

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  Posted June 23rd, 2010 by t C at 6:14 am - Reply

  its not legal in belgium.. its legal in holland.

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  Posted June 23rd, 2010 by HoChiMinh at 7:12 am - Reply

  Sorry, but the nineth point is not correct.

  In Belgium, weed is not legal, it’s decriminalized: you can own small portions of it for personal use. But you cannot buy it.
  When the police catches you with weed, they will certainly take it from you. That is, they will take ANY amount you would carry.
  You also cannot smoke and drive and (because we’re that close to the Netherlands) the police will check for it.

  In the Netherlands, you do can buy weed in “coffee shops”.
  You can smoke and drive.

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  Posted June 23rd, 2010 by Roy S. at 1:27 pm - Reply

  You need to do a little better research on your topic – there are actually several cannabis-related deaths annually:
  http://www.briancbennett.com/charts/death/cannabis-yr.htm

  http://alcoholism.about.com/b/2003/11/02/marijuana-causes-many-deaths-reported-as-accidents.htm

  You also ignore studies that show the neurotoxicity of THC:

  http://www.jneurosci.org/cgi/content/full/18/14/5322

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    Posted July 20th, 2010 by Joe at 3:21 am - Reply

    Ever heard of a confirmation bias, Roy S? I believe you suffer from it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effects_of_cannabis That may show you the exaggerations of some your sources. Also your cannabis death sources are totally unreliable and have no data supporting them. Needless to say, you’re full of shit :p

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  Posted June 27th, 2010 by theDwarf at 8:45 pm - Reply

  Sorry folks but in mexico the marihuana is not leagal, not even for medical use.

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  Posted June 27th, 2010 by Bulcheter at 11:59 pm - Reply

  Please check your sources. In Chile is not decriminalized, in fact, possession is categorized as microtraffic (unless you prove otherwise) and you can get as much as 5 years and 1 day of jail just for carrying it in your pocket.

  VIVA CHILE MIERDA!!!!!!!

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  Posted June 28th, 2010 by Carmen Santos at 2:41 am - Reply

  At least one of the statements above is not true: marijuana is NOT legal in peru.

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  Posted June 28th, 2010 by Bubba Shrimp at 3:26 am - Reply

  Correction & some interesting facts about weed smoking in India, FYI:

  Hemp was legal in India till the late 80s. But following others’ footsteps, they made it illegal.

  Now only the Sadhus (monks) are allowed to carry small quantities for personal consumption.

  But weed, hashish and other hemp products are openly smoked in many areas where cops either don’t prefer to intervene, or are bribed to excuse those places. Most of these areas surprisingly are Shiva temples, Sai Baba temples, Islamic Dargahs and other spiritual places of worship.

  Hemp has a cultural bonding in India since thousands of years. The Chillum (smoking pipe) resides in many old paintings and anthropological material. Saints like Sai Baba, Gajanan Maharaj and many others smoked marijuana-filled chillums regularly.

  There is a museum of Chillums in Shirdi (Sai Baba’s tomb) and many photographs & stories about the saint and his chillum. Gajanan Maharaj is another saint who’s picture is worshiped by non-smokers in which he’s shown smoking a Chillum.

  The best hashish in the world is grown in Manali in Northern India, but most of those farms are owned by international mafia. The top quality Hash and Charas are smuggled to other countries.

  There is still a drug called ‘Bhaang’, legal & commercially available for Rs.2 (0.043USD) per hit, which contains small amounts of THC, but gives a mind boggling high for many hours. It is not smoked, but ingested as a tablet or inside a paan (betelnut leaf appetizer).

  Recently rave parties were busted in India and blood samples were taken from all revelers. The amount of THC found in each person determined what law should go against them.

  Many of my friends & I have cute mugshots in the police department for smoking marijuana and spreading peace!

  Ironic but true.

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  Posted June 30th, 2010 by lostx at 8:44 pm - Reply

  15 can’t be correct. I’ve witnessed larger.

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  Posted August 9th, 2010 by Well Done at 1:25 pm - Reply

  Deaths, from being high on Marijauna 13, within 3 years, while still in school.
  Car, motorcylce accidents, running into a tree on Chevy Chase Circle 4 good guys I personally knew, 1979.

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  Posted September 3rd, 2010 by Jorma at 5:09 am - Reply

  Pot is not decriminalized in Finland (yet). Growing pot gets you same sentence as abuse. Posession of small ammount of marijuana gets you a ticket.

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  Posted September 20th, 2010 by pierce at 5:35 pm - Reply

  i really wish that the * in 10 was true, but thats completely false theres tar in weed smoke, thats what resin is mostly, it cant be good for you, as well i started smoking 6 years ago and about 3 years ago i started coughing up tar every now and then, tell me theres no increased chance of lung cancer

  and what is the point of having a qp joint? to waste weed?

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  Posted September 21st, 2010 by TAA at 9:01 pm - Reply

  Look at the careful wording, annual number of death by drug. I think it is assumed to mean overdose. Technically, it’s not wrong to say 0 deaths by weed because they are not listing drug-related deaths, but you can see the bias. I wonder if the other drug numbers are from OD or related as well?

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