Quote Originally Posted by Gandalf_The_Grey
I think the one you're talking about is the 80-something year old woman who died after using medical marijuana. She was prescribed it for arthritis, and tried it for the first time in her life. After smoking a joint, she started exhibiting all the signs of a panic attack, was taken to hospital with extreme hyperventilation, and later died. Some have attributed this to a "marijuana overdose", but I think the answer is pretty obvious; she'd never smoked, had an unusually low tolerance, and had a panic attack. When you're in your 80's your body is pretty fragile, and that kind of physical stress can undoubtedly give you a heart attack.

Still, even if we can find 10 cases of marijuana overdose, it's rediculous to deny it's prescription on these grounds considering almost every med out there has significantly higher deathrates. Every year a few hundred people die from acetaminophen, ibeprophen, celebrex, you name it.
no that's not it.. the one i'm talking about (not to say i belive it was the cause of death but it is debated regaurdless, and probably the strongest case that's actually documented against marijuana)

i'm pretty sure it was a guy, and he was found to have extremely high abnormal ammounts of thc in his system..... i know for a fact it wasn't an old person, and the person was in reasonable health... as i said had a very high ammount of thc in their system and no other real reason for the death..... so of course the medical examnier labeled it marijuana over dose...

i heard about it thorugh this site and there was a link, but i'm pretty sure that as back in mid 2005.... it was posted a very long time ago.