So... no one has died from thc?

[Gandalf_The_Grey]

actually there is one debated case... i'm sure someone could find the link, but other then that no...

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.