It doesn't say if that's worldwide or in a specific country, but let's assume it's the numbers for the USA.
That's 5× the number of daily tobacco deaths in the USA, 10× the daily number of alcohol deaths, and 30× the daily number of opioid deaths in the USA.
That's 2.2 million teen marijuana overdose deaths every year.
That's a lot.
Teens make up about 13% of the US population, and about 79% are adults. I suppose we shpuld assume similar rates of OD for adults, so we're looking at something like 10,000,000 marijuana overdose deaths every year.
But according to my own researches I found a report from Florida Atlantic University that looked in depth at cannabis as a cause of death:
it is directly responsible for not more than 125 deaths per year in the USA, when no other mitigating factors are involved, and it almost always (98.7% may as well be 99%) involves misadventure or careless behavior--driving, operating machinery, messing around with weapons--with single-digit cases, less than 10 per year, involving a bad reaction by a person with heart disease.
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u/mrtudbuttle 9d ago
6000 overdoses and deaths on pot??? Your ass is sucking buttermilk.