Firstly, this is obviously a terrible thing to have happened however it happened and in no way do I mean to take anything away from that. I am, however, deeply suspicious over whether the cause was actually cannabis. Obviously I - nor anybody else here - can really know for sure and is but speculation, but I strongly suspect that this was actually synthetics not cannabis itself.
"The level of cannabinoids in the blood were 0.1 to 0.15 milligrams per litre, this is considered as moderate to heavy cannabis use.
If, as is suggested in the article (although there seems to be some dispute between friends and family) she was a fairly light user of cannabis - a joint at night to help sleep, couple of grammes a week (fits with one joint a night) - it seems unlikely to have enough cannabinoids in the system to show as moderate-heavy use. Her friend suggested that it was more than that (£60 worth - guess it depends how good the deals were as to how much that is) I guess that would count as moderate-heavy use, but doesn't fit with one joint a night. Either way, if she really had only smoked half a joint before bed it seems a lot to be in the system. Synths are potent buggers and that seems to fit better with the reported facts to me. A sudden, sharp spike in concentration rather than longterm background levels.
Half of a joint was found underneath her body and a wrapper containing brown and green leaves of the class B drug was discovered in her handbag.
Again, this sounds more like generic "herbal material" which is used as a substrate for a coating of synthetics. I can't see any regular smoker buying brown leaves - or leaves at all for that matter.
"She suffered from depression and was on prescription drugs to try and deal with that although it would not appear she was taking them at the time of her death.
Not suggesting this would be a direct cause of death, but perhaps could contribute as antidepressants tend to have quite intense physical withdrawal effects if stopped suddenly CT style. Obviously it would depend on the antidep and any other medications involved, but if the body was stressed with antidep withdrawal symptoms and what she smoked was a
lot more intense than expected, it seems a more likely situation for things to go wrong. Death does seem extreme but the plethora of synth noids are very new, very untested chemicals and we're already on about the third or fourth generation away from the orignal ones that at least had some small amount of research done on them afaik. And even if they did have some research behind them it was precious little.
I've been becoming more and more suspicious about these synths, and there have been a number of reports of hospitilasations and general iffiness recently. As I said, I - nor any of us - knows for sure but my suspicions lie firmly at the door of synthetics and I don't think I want to be using them anymore - not because of this specifically but it is definitely going on my 'Cons' pile when weighing up whether or not to continue using them.
, in terms of effects I've been getting mildly paranoid off both, bu that might just be my less than ideal mental state at the moment.
