So your defense is that weed ONLY killed 28 people!? I think that's 28 too many for it to be called "benign"....
Dude, did you even read the arguments I laid out above??
The 9 out of those 28 peopl killed probably had prior heart conditions or some other condition and it wasn't the weed that killed them it was probably their condition.
Scroll back up and read what I wrote.
Even the article you linked had statements by doctors admitting that they honestly don't know if those people in the study had prior conditions and fully admitting to the fact that 20% of them DID.
Doctors in that very article admitted that that study is "not conclusive".
Look, I'll just repost some of your article:
"Only 20% of patients in the study had a known history of heart disease or risk factors for heart disease. The other patients may have had unknown cardiovascular risk factors or a history that was not documented in the medical file."
This study shows a some preliminary evidence of cardiovascular harm from marijuana but
isn't conclusive,” Dr. Allen Taylor, chief of cardiology at Georgetown University School of Medicine, told CNN in an e-mail. “
The study's limitations are important in that we can't know how high the risk is, just that there is a signal of risk between marijuana smoking and heart troubles.”
Look at the bolded parts.
And yes, 9 people died over the course of 4 years, who MAY have had prior heart conditions and which whoever did this study admits they have no proof that they didn't...that's not a conclusive link to weed causing heart attacks.
All it shows is that a VERY small number of people in ONE study who may very likely have had prior conditions had heart attacks after smoking weed.
Weed is known to raise blood pressure and heart rate temporarily so everyone has known for a long time that if you have prior conditions it could kill you, but so could running too fast if you have a heart condition and like I said...it wasn't the Running in that case that killed the person just like it wasn't the weed, it was the heart condition.
You are NOT going to make me believe that 100% perfectly healthy people had heart attacks from smoking weed.
We already know enough about weed to know that that is EXTREMELY unlikely.
Everything has it's risks, but I have never seen a conclusive study proving that weed has killed someone who had absolutely no prior health conditions.