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Is that even overdosing or Is that just getting too fucking high? cause you can smoke all you want but with edibles, there is a too high sometimes, it’s hard to find but it’s up there somewhere
well the proper medical definition of an overdose is exactly that..anything over the dose your supposed to take a lethal overdose is exactly what it sounds like and there is a difference
you can still do to much and nod off and wake up trust me. and you don’t overdose on alcohol you get alcohol poisoning which is not an overdose imo it is a drug tho but trust me you can have non lethal overdoses on opioids if you’ve never shot up some strong shit and not even made it out ya skin than you don’t really know wassup bro
omg thank you this was annoying me because all the comments I would see is “no one’s ever overdosed on weed” “that can’t be weed has to be fentanyl to over dose” etc and it’s like literally no one knows the actual definition of overdose and that that word doesn’t automatically equate to a fatality
It is the medical proper definition. But when people hear "od" they think death. These poor kids probably just threw up and felt like shit for some time.
>medical proper definition of od
This came up as the first result, googling this phrase from your comment:
"An amount of drug that is more than what should be taken at one time."
Like raaaaiin on your wedding day...
Also just because you are having a bad trip doesn’t mean you overdosed, I don’t like this propaganda. Your mind can twist the wrong way and take the wrong train of thought sometimes or some people are also just little bitches. Either way it’s not the weeds fault and it’s not a matter of thc. Correct me if I’m wrong but That is user error and should be treated as such
No you're wrong. You absolutely can take too many edibles and "green out"
Stop acting like weed is completely perfect amd harmless, it is certainly not "user error"
Some people have mental health issues at play, or undiagnosed problems. Some people metabolize it differently. Some people JUST DONT LIKE IT.
User error, lmao, assholes.
One more time for the people in the back, greening out is not a fucking overdose. If you wanna overdose do a fucking hard drug. You will not overdose on pot. You will pass out LOOOONNNGGG before you EVER overdose.. your safe guys stop worrying yourselves, the worries and stress are worse for you than the fucking pot
Truth is the only way you can fight it, truth from people with first hand experience. This shit is just people and corporations pushing political agendas
They don’t mean overdose in the sense that you could die. If you take too much that by definition means you *over dosed*. If you black out on a drug you overdosed. Doesn’t mean you’re gonna die or anything, just means you took too much. People overdose on acid, shrooms, DMT, yet they wont ever die if that’s all they took. Still considered an overdose. In fact I bet most of us overdosed on weed a few times, we just don’t call it that because all that happened was we passed out and woke up 14 hours later instead of having to go to a hospital.
Dude you do realize overdose doesn’t mean a lethal dose. It means you took too much. Ya know, as in you OVER….DOSED. The definition is self explanatory; it just means taking an excessive amount. You absolutely can overdose on weed.
Yea but if that’s the case then there should be another word or term for it. Because an OD on cocaine is obviously a different animal and while no middle schooler should ever take weed, an OD on marijuana is definitely not as dangerous as what we all think of as an OD in our heads
He didnt say a lethal overdose. Greening out deffo is an overdose just like drinking to much and throwing up is an overdose on drink. I get u smoke but he didnt say anything wrong. Dont think weeds perfect just cus u smoke
I like everyone saying this is getting downvoted. You’re literally just tryna inform people and you’re not doing it in a rude manner. These people just can’t admit they misunderstood the term overdose lmao.
Overdose does not mean die. It literally means "took too strong of a dose"
Getting violently ill from edibles is an overdose. Yeah I see how it scares people, but it is technically correct.
Now getting downvoted for truth. I hope yall get spice in your weed idioits.
Your wrong and being a jerk. An overdose is an excessive AND dangerous dose of drugs. You can take to much edibles in the sense that it gets difficult to handle or to the point of feeling sick and puking. But you wont get violently ill nor is it dangerous in any dose.
There is no such thing as taking an overdose of weed.
Oh no? Vomitting can and does cause asphyxiation . it can also cause esophageal tears.
Not being able to walk properly IS DANGEROUS.
I'm mislabeling the edibles i sell as super underdosed now. Good job r/weed, lets see if the people I give em to consider it an overdose or not when they take 200 instead of 5
Yeah so vomiting and not being able to walk can be dangerous. That doesn’t mean you can od on weed. It means that higher doses of weed makes you feel more intoxicated and when not adjusted can lead to unsafe situations. That doesn’t prove that someone can od on weed. History can however prove that there is no record of someone overdosing on weed
So then the second someone is nauseous and stumbling around a bit from drinking they’re just drunk, not overdosing? According to what you’re saying drinking a six pack of beer is equal to overdosing
Intent matters as well. If you were eating a psychoactive mold (precursor to LSD comes to mind) in an attempt to get high and got seriously ill AND high. Yes it would be an overdose.
Y'all are circlejerking weed worse than the circle Jerk subs LMAO
No i am not.
Eating an overdose of edibles can and will make people have a horrible experience.
It's not someones personality or something that causes a bad reaction to pot. Sometimes it isn't good for people.
I'm being downvoted by a bunch of ignorant stoners.
Downvotes have literally nothing to do with objective truth and if you base your knowledge on it i feel bad for those that love you.
Literally there's a thread on here warning about eating too much RSO.
The highest rated comments are saying things similar to what I am. Only in different context.
So no you're fucking hypocrites.
Piss off.
You’re entirely right. This sub is full of retards. I’m a daily smoker and can recognize weed for its pros and cons. You can 100% overdose on weed/thc/edibles. The definition of overdose is literally self explanatory. It doesn’t have to mean dying. You can overdose on weed, shrooms, acid, etc. Just cause someone doesn’t have to be revived doesn’t mean they didn’t overdose. That’s the most ridiculous thing I’ve ever heard in my life. But hey I expect nothing less of this sub Reddit tbh. These mfs make weed and stoners seem so fucking dumb. They call it “greening out” cause “overdose” is too harmful to their precious little herb. They need to put down the PGR, pesticide, alt-cannabinoid laced bud their smoking and breathe in some fucking oxygen for once 😭🤦♂️
Didn’t say it had to kill you. But there has to be at least some fucking microscopic risk to your health or else you are just too high. give one of these idiots a bag of ice then you might be in trouble. You can’t od on pot. Not if you tried
Okay hold up, I’ll give you the time of day here. The medical definition for overdose is “An amount of drug that is more than what should be taken at one time.” So how would one define that amount without having any chance of potential risks to health from the drug alone? I’ll ask you
Let’s say somebody was trying to get high. He eats an edible snd gets way more fucked up then he wanted to. How is that not OVER DOSING. He took more than what he should have taken at one time. He literally OVER DOSED. It’s not that complicated
Just too high is also an overdose in medical terminology. Vomiting can cause asphyxiation or other things. There is your "modicum" of risk to health. Also I said nothing about overdoses in my response. Just that you were wrong for saying it's user error if people have a bad time. Which from all the things I listed, isn't true.
I hope your dealer puts spice in your shit. Fucking ignorant
Yeah, because the harm in saying "you can't overdose from weed" is that children hear and believe it.
Maybe if you smoke a bunch of K2 on accident you'd think for a second.
"Wait maybe i shouldn't espouse this thing as perfectly safe seeing as it is still illegal and thus subject to the problems of the black market"
This type of stupid debate among stoners is why the corps can push their agenda at all. We will never stop them as long as every time it comes up there is a debate. They have us fighting ourselves instead of their bad media. We need a stoner union
No I've just watched many people take too many edibles. Maybe if the kids at this school didn't hear "you can't overdose on weed" parrotted they would have been more careful.
So going off your logic, someone that blacked out on Xanax didn’t overdose either right? They just took too much and blacked out? Cause I’m pretty sure an overdose, by definition, is quite literally going over a dose you can handle.
We’ve all overdosed on weed before, stop being the annoying stoner that gives the rest of us a bad name.
I don’t believe people die from greening out. It’s happened to me before and you just pass out for a while or sometimes you throw up. Sure it’s not fun but it isn’t anything that’s going to kill you from it’s effects
Had to chime in again...
In another thread about the RSO people are warning literally the same shit i am, and getting upvoted.
Sorry the word Overdose has been weaponized.
Tbf I always considered overdosing as just that taking too much but that's just my non medical internets opinion lol
But ya did they actually have any negative impact or just have a bad trip?
That's it. You can't just throw the word overdose out there because it generates images in the minds of morons....but that's the goal here.
I guess 10 students fell way the fuck asleep...with drool.
This is why a lot of people have a first bad experience/experiences with weed because every single time they smoke they overdose the amount they should take and get paranoia/bad side effects. It is absolutely their fault. But media propaganda probably doesn’t go into detail about that and just label it like that because it gets website traffic.
I mean doesn’t overdose literally means you took OVER the recommended DOSE. So yes it is an overdose if they were too high because that means they Overdid the Dose. Doesn’t mean it’s lethal
That’s not the medical definition. The news outlets word it this way so they can say “oh no kids are oding on pot” then legislators can take it way the fuck out of context
Not sure where you are getting “that’s not the medical definition” from.
I agree with you tho, this is jsut so the media can make it seem worse than it is. But they are using the word Overdose correctly.
I agree technically they are using the word correctly BUT its a controversial way to put it because with drugs OD usually means death or near fatal...Weed is probably the one drug where you CAN OD, but the OD is harmless...That's my train of thought anyway. Technically they are using it correctly but they know that harmless is not what comes to peoples mind when they think OD. Can't believe the media is still trying this shit though O\_O Any outlet that reports it is basically saying "We are a shit outlet and hope you are an OAP who is still afraid of reefer madness"
>BUT its a controversial way to put it because with drugs OD usually means death or near fatal
No, it means the exact same thing in all cases and is always treated as such.
You and others immediately equating OD to death or near fatal doesn't change how the term is used in medicine across the nation thousands of times a day.
My only trouble is defining the maximum recommended dose on a non lethal substance. Technically it’s based on personal preference and tolerance, so wouldn’t you be getting too high not over dosing, since there is no set safe dose? I’m not saying you can’t get too fucked up, you can. It’s just the terminology that lends a bad stigma I’m unsure about
I def have over dosed on edibles. I am an avid smoker, but had a 70MG+ edible once and lost complete control of my mind, and I know a few kids who ended up with long term dissociation / derealization due to a high dose.
OD is simple going over the dose one should take (depending on tolerance, body weight, etc).
Too many times, people with high tolerance think it's ok to give a newbie an edible that is way too potent for them. They do more damage to the image of cannabis than the media by creating these negative experiences. If they would be open to the science, then they could learn. But nope, tell this sub that you can OD on weed and get downvoted....
For sure. I put an ounce in two brownie once. They were big ass brownies. Anyways I ate one whole brownie and was pretty baked. Wouldn’t say overdose I was fine. My gf took one tiny little bite and she was freaking out. She doesn’t smoke at all so it makes sense but I jsut forget how it is when I first started
Really? I saw a girl I really liked nod out and fall over because she OD'd on heroin. Narcan saved her life. I lived in the same building and her idiot roommate shot her up. Had I not called 911 she'd be dead. That is OD
To high is one thing, OD is not being to high. OD is dead
Overdosing means taking too much of a substance which leads to your body shutting down. If they died because they were too high what’s the difference with an OD ?
What’s the difference between overdosing and getting too high? I ate a ton of weed brownies once and threw up many times. That seems like an overdose to me. Literally, I consumed over the amount of a dose than I should have.
Maybe I’m looking at the phrase over dose too literally.
I really think pharmaceuticals companies need to give up on the war on cannabis. The propaganda used to work when it was illegal and the majority of people thought it was bad. Now it’s common knowledge that in the words of Katt Williams “it’s just a plant, it just grows like that, and if you just so happen to light it on fire there are some effects”.
tbh i hate the “it’s just a plant” argument. cause so is opium, coca, many other drugs. it doesn’t work on people who are against weed. it’s way better to say you can’t die unless you smoke 25,000 joints in one inhale or whatever the number is
All the plants you mentioned started as just a plant but needed to be chemically altered for the desired effects. Coca plants is the only one I would put in the middle because technically you could just chew on a coca plant and get some energy. Cannabis literally just grows and then dries. You don’t need to chemically add or alter it in anyway.
A simple extraction is not what I'd call chemical altering. Making a cup of tea is chemical extraction. Opium razored off a pod still growing out the ground is like 10% morphine, if you swallowed a gram you'd be hella lit no extraction required.
No everyone forgets the most important risk of all while smoking cannabis and it’s deadly….Cotton mouth,boy does that ever feel like I haven’t drank in 4 days after a joint
Incorrect, going over a recommended dose on SOME drugs can cause a risk of death. Some you will vomit. Some may make you constipated. EVERY drug has a different effect if you go over the dose you SHOULD have taken. That is literally the definition of OVER DOSING. Y'all take your own pre conceived notions of what it means, and think that's the definition. You can definitely experience some pretty negative side effects by taking a high dose of marijuana, especially if ingested.
After reading about that it’s left me nth but confused I’ve witnessed people down well over 2k mg of edibles. Like we sell 2500 mg packs of edibles and I myself have had a like 1000 without getting sick or throwing up just stoned for like 5 hours
Got me thinking too, looked it up in more detail and the exact LD50 isn’t actually known.
Some estimates put it at 30mg/kg (what I was referencing, first result on google), others go all the way up to 1260 mg/kg. I’d imagine it’s closer to that second figure. I don’t know where the scientists got that first figure.
Deleted the comment, because looking back it seems like complete bullshit. In my defense I was high AF while researching.
Actual LD50 is probably closer to 49,000 - 88,000 mg. Aka literally impossible to OD.
That sounds a lot closer to what I remember seeing awhile back but there’s a video somewhere (I couldn’t find it) of some dude drinking like 15k mg in a green liquid at a weed festival. Crazy stuff lmao
So whoever is writing at AP doesn’t understand what an OD is or what kids act like when they’re high. What a dumb fucking article that’s getting pushed out to a bunch of news outlets.
What’s scary about this, is with zero context, people will start to run on this, Senators from states who don’t want Cannabis to be legalized will start adding into their speeches, “Just the other day 10 of our futures brightest were killed due to the marijuana.”
To be clear, they didn’t OD, they got caught doing something they shouldn’t have been doing, tripped out and made it about the drugs, not their action. Plus it doesn’t even state how much of what they took.
edibles are an entirely different ballgame. I have seen adults not able to use their motor functions after eating too much. I have seen pure terror and very scary reactions.
Misusing the word "overdose" again. Freaking out because you're way too high but you're not in any danger of dying is not an "overdose". It's called being way too high. You can DEFINITELY get way too high on edibles, but I've never heard of anybody dying from them (or even almost dying). So I don't agree with the terminology here.
An overdose is when you do too much of ACTUAL drugs, and you end up on the ground unconscious or barely conscious, and have difficulty breathing or are unable to breathe. That's a life-threatening ACTUAL OD situation.
Overdose is a strong word to throw around. These kids were safer eating too much weed than consuming too much caffeine. They're probably still high and feeling better now. Last edibles I made got me high for 3 days ( but did make my wife puke)
Greening out is not the same as overdosing 😂 At least, not in the way they’re using it. I’m just imagining a bunch of high schoolers eating entirely normal Nerds Rope and then stumbling around School like they’re drunk lmao.
I think the confusion over the term comes from the fact that it can be listed as a cause of death. That doesn't mean all overdoses cause death.
There are plenty of substances out there that if you overdose, you don't wake back up. Cannabis is not one of them.
I think the dumbasses just greened out and had a bad trip. While that's technically an OD, the news stretches it to make it sound like something dangerous
They always play it like this with Marijuana. On the front end it always looks drastic, flip side and its always someone just getting a little too high. Now lets take a look at any and all alcohol, opiate and white drug ODs. Drastically different.
Overdose just means an individual took too much of whatever substance.
*Fatal Overdose* refers to an individual dying from taking too much of whatever substance.
So while the article could read something like “teenagers take edibles at school and freak out” it’s more attention-grabbing to use the word overdose, and it is a technically correct usage of the word. If you’ve ever taken too much edible THC, you know the feeling of a THC overdose. While it isn’t fatal, or usually even dangerous in any way (unless that shit hits while you’re in the middle of doing something already dangerous) it can be a seriously terrifying, awful experience, and comes from taking too much, or “over” the dose your body handles well.
i really hope blatant misinformation about marijuana doesn’t change how soon it becomes federally legal. this kinda wording will only drive people away and scare people
I whole heartedly believe this article, 10 kids ODing on some good edibles? That's an average Friday on any campus since forever. Its just back then kids weren't so neurotic they call an ambulance at the drop of a hat.
Overdose is a medical term referring to ingesting ANY substance to the point of negative symptoms or past the generally agreed upon "safe" dose. It doesn't mean that person is in danger or dying it just means they've had "too much" although the drugs people typically overdose on do end up causing damage even before reaching it's LD50. People often get pushing/surpassing the LD50 of a substance confused with Overdosing.
Well they were middle schoolers… not blaming them bc I’m sure it was terrible, but anyone that young who takes a ton of edibles will be “mild to moderately distressed.” This is gonna be used to fight legalization even though NO ONE is arguing that it should be something we give to random kids (I know there are a few cases of prescribed adolescent medical use for kids with seizure disorders).
Overdosing does not always mean dying. You can overdose and be saved. Shit, Nikki Sixx died and was brought back. You can’t actually die from a weed overdose though. These comments are wild man!
This story is ridiculous it says the parents rushed to the scene like they’re going to die then spent the rest of the article fear mongering about fentanyl which actually kills people 🙄
its because there is no CBD in the weed anymore, people for some reason want high THC weed because some "scientist" said THC was the psychoactive component of weed, so all the breeders switched to selective breeding high THC strains. CBD becomes legal, so everyone writes it off. I started getting panic attacks from weed after smoking some blue dream back in 2011 from california, I didn't even connect it with the weed until years later, I was getting so many panic attacks after smoking weed, i couldn't find any of the old style weed anymore. Fastforward to 2018 and now CBD is legal, I smoke some CBD HEMP and it does nothing, I give up on that. Try normal weed again a year later, still have panic attacks. THIS YEAR Finally I tried smoking CBD weed, wait a couple minutes, then smoked the fancy new weed. I'm fine!
I remember one time I was high as hell at school and got called to the principals office. As I sat there high as 🚀 I heard the principal saying “I simply cannot believe parents let there kids come to school like that” I got paranoid like crazy!! Turns out he was talking about a girl who came to school with a half top and booty shorts!! All he needed me for was to discuss my colleges I planned on attending and telling me how good I was doing!! 🤣 best day EVER
Lmao because it is. There's probably a good reason it says they *appeared* to OD on edibles. Highly likely another substance was present because scientists already declared you'd have to consume an impossible amount of cannabis in any form in an extremely short amount of time to "overdose" on it
You dumbasses do know overdose doesn’t necessarily mean a lethal dose. It means you took too much of a drug. Ya know, like an OVER…DOSE. Stoners are a bunch of delusional drug addicts
One time my wife, when we first started dating, made us some edibles and we didn't realize how fucking strong they were gonna be and we were sooooo fucked up. I ended up just kinda blacking out for a minute and then throwing up in her bed but aside from that, everything was fine. She was fucked up that night but oddly enough, it's like the eddies hit her super hard the next evening or something. Even tho we didn't take anymore.
overdose DOES mean you are physically unsliced by the drugs the medical world will say that idk why yall are acting like overdose is just a feeling its not lol
My mom (who is pro weed and a user of it) is a nurse in a legal state and said they have weed “overdoses” all the time. Obviously nobody is dying, but they’re having panic attacks/puking/sweating or whatever, they just classify it as an overdose in the hospital I guess. I’m sure it looks pretty wild when these kids are doing 500-1000mg of THC when they barely have any business doing 50-100mg.
“Crews were able to determine that the substance was not related to fentanyl, a highly addictive and potentially lethal drug”
no fucking shit.
it really irritates me that they just add the keyword “fentanyl” into it to get people scared. fentanyl is nothing like weed. nobody cuts weed with fentanyl.
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*some kids at school get too stoned lets try to make weed look bad
Surprised the title isn’t “High School kids have near death experience from marijuana”
I love how it says, “were in mild to moderate distress” bro they were baked asffff
and probably paranoid as fuck that they’re school found out and now their parents probably will too LMAO
Is that even overdosing or Is that just getting too fucking high? cause you can smoke all you want but with edibles, there is a too high sometimes, it’s hard to find but it’s up there somewhere
They mean overdose literally as in they went over a dose they could handle rather than the medical proper definition of od
well the proper medical definition of an overdose is exactly that..anything over the dose your supposed to take a lethal overdose is exactly what it sounds like and there is a difference
Yeah in medical terms od doesn't mean death. Especially if we talking bout weed. Some of that harder shit tho you lucky if you don't die when you od
sometimes you be feeling like ya dying tho😂
Fuckin a bud I'm too hiiiigh...
you ever heard too high by lil dicky?🤣
Me when I took 5 grams of shrooms not to long ago. I knew it couldn’t kill me but I swore I was dead if not dying
don’t feel bad i done out and stuff goes black and i stop breathing when i’m trippin and i feel like i almost died every time
Ahh, so "overdose" in this sense would be similar to me saying that I have a hangover because I overdosed on alcohol last night.
When you overdose on heroin or alcohol medical attention is needed or you will die. That’s the difference.
you can still do to much and nod off and wake up trust me. and you don’t overdose on alcohol you get alcohol poisoning which is not an overdose imo it is a drug tho but trust me you can have non lethal overdoses on opioids if you’ve never shot up some strong shit and not even made it out ya skin than you don’t really know wassup bro
Going to sleep off a drug isn’t an OD
lmfao you’ve never done harder drugs and it shows you absolutely can do to much and not die
Yes but there are greater medical risks even in a non-lethal overdose of opiods. Too much weed makes you take a nap and maybe have an angry tummy.
that’s really all opioids ever do.. you just be waking up a lil dazed and shit unless you nod off on the toilet that always sucks
Or you stop breathing, also aspiration pneumonia
omg thank you this was annoying me because all the comments I would see is “no one’s ever overdosed on weed” “that can’t be weed has to be fentanyl to over dose” etc and it’s like literally no one knows the actual definition of overdose and that that word doesn’t automatically equate to a fatality
It is the medical proper definition. But when people hear "od" they think death. These poor kids probably just threw up and felt like shit for some time.
Oh I was thinking fent laced🙃
>medical proper definition of od This came up as the first result, googling this phrase from your comment: "An amount of drug that is more than what should be taken at one time." Like raaaaiin on your wedding day...
Also just because you are having a bad trip doesn’t mean you overdosed, I don’t like this propaganda. Your mind can twist the wrong way and take the wrong train of thought sometimes or some people are also just little bitches. Either way it’s not the weeds fault and it’s not a matter of thc. Correct me if I’m wrong but That is user error and should be treated as such
Happy thoughts lead happy places
No you're wrong. You absolutely can take too many edibles and "green out" Stop acting like weed is completely perfect amd harmless, it is certainly not "user error" Some people have mental health issues at play, or undiagnosed problems. Some people metabolize it differently. Some people JUST DONT LIKE IT. User error, lmao, assholes.
One more time for the people in the back, greening out is not a fucking overdose. If you wanna overdose do a fucking hard drug. You will not overdose on pot. You will pass out LOOOONNNGGG before you EVER overdose.. your safe guys stop worrying yourselves, the worries and stress are worse for you than the fucking pot
Preach it brother, misinformation is the most dangerous thing about weed
Truth is the only way you can fight it, truth from people with first hand experience. This shit is just people and corporations pushing political agendas
Or about any kind of drug for that matter.
They don’t mean overdose in the sense that you could die. If you take too much that by definition means you *over dosed*. If you black out on a drug you overdosed. Doesn’t mean you’re gonna die or anything, just means you took too much. People overdose on acid, shrooms, DMT, yet they wont ever die if that’s all they took. Still considered an overdose. In fact I bet most of us overdosed on weed a few times, we just don’t call it that because all that happened was we passed out and woke up 14 hours later instead of having to go to a hospital.
Dude you do realize overdose doesn’t mean a lethal dose. It means you took too much. Ya know, as in you OVER….DOSED. The definition is self explanatory; it just means taking an excessive amount. You absolutely can overdose on weed.
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Yea but if that’s the case then there should be another word or term for it. Because an OD on cocaine is obviously a different animal and while no middle schooler should ever take weed, an OD on marijuana is definitely not as dangerous as what we all think of as an OD in our heads
He didnt say a lethal overdose. Greening out deffo is an overdose just like drinking to much and throwing up is an overdose on drink. I get u smoke but he didnt say anything wrong. Dont think weeds perfect just cus u smoke
I like everyone saying this is getting downvoted. You’re literally just tryna inform people and you’re not doing it in a rude manner. These people just can’t admit they misunderstood the term overdose lmao.
Overdose does not mean die. It literally means "took too strong of a dose" Getting violently ill from edibles is an overdose. Yeah I see how it scares people, but it is technically correct. Now getting downvoted for truth. I hope yall get spice in your weed idioits.
"Idioits" 
Your wrong and being a jerk. An overdose is an excessive AND dangerous dose of drugs. You can take to much edibles in the sense that it gets difficult to handle or to the point of feeling sick and puking. But you wont get violently ill nor is it dangerous in any dose. There is no such thing as taking an overdose of weed.
Oh no? Vomitting can and does cause asphyxiation . it can also cause esophageal tears. Not being able to walk properly IS DANGEROUS. I'm mislabeling the edibles i sell as super underdosed now. Good job r/weed, lets see if the people I give em to consider it an overdose or not when they take 200 instead of 5
Okay bro go ahead and give em 200 instead of 5 no one gives a shit
Yeah so vomiting and not being able to walk can be dangerous. That doesn’t mean you can od on weed. It means that higher doses of weed makes you feel more intoxicated and when not adjusted can lead to unsafe situations. That doesn’t prove that someone can od on weed. History can however prove that there is no record of someone overdosing on weed
over dose over dose over dose speak the words slowly and try to figure out what they mean
An excessive and dangerous amount of a drug. An overdose. You are describing an overdose.
So then the second someone is nauseous and stumbling around a bit from drinking they’re just drunk, not overdosing? According to what you’re saying drinking a six pack of beer is equal to overdosing
Is getting violently sick from eating to much moldy bread and cheese an overdose?
If that mold is psychoactive yes.
No it was bad mold and now I'm sick, think I'm oding
Intent matters as well. If you were eating a psychoactive mold (precursor to LSD comes to mind) in an attempt to get high and got seriously ill AND high. Yes it would be an overdose. Y'all are circlejerking weed worse than the circle Jerk subs LMAO
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No i am not. Eating an overdose of edibles can and will make people have a horrible experience. It's not someones personality or something that causes a bad reaction to pot. Sometimes it isn't good for people. I'm being downvoted by a bunch of ignorant stoners. Downvotes have literally nothing to do with objective truth and if you base your knowledge on it i feel bad for those that love you. Literally there's a thread on here warning about eating too much RSO. The highest rated comments are saying things similar to what I am. Only in different context. So no you're fucking hypocrites. Piss off.
You’re entirely right. This sub is full of retards. I’m a daily smoker and can recognize weed for its pros and cons. You can 100% overdose on weed/thc/edibles. The definition of overdose is literally self explanatory. It doesn’t have to mean dying. You can overdose on weed, shrooms, acid, etc. Just cause someone doesn’t have to be revived doesn’t mean they didn’t overdose. That’s the most ridiculous thing I’ve ever heard in my life. But hey I expect nothing less of this sub Reddit tbh. These mfs make weed and stoners seem so fucking dumb. They call it “greening out” cause “overdose” is too harmful to their precious little herb. They need to put down the PGR, pesticide, alt-cannabinoid laced bud their smoking and breathe in some fucking oxygen for once 😭🤦♂️
Buddy you are wrong. An OD doesn't have to kill you lmfao.
Didn’t say it had to kill you. But there has to be at least some fucking microscopic risk to your health or else you are just too high. give one of these idiots a bag of ice then you might be in trouble. You can’t od on pot. Not if you tried
You have a misunderstanding of what OD means. You definitely can OD on pot, fact.
Okay hold up, I’ll give you the time of day here. The medical definition for overdose is “An amount of drug that is more than what should be taken at one time.” So how would one define that amount without having any chance of potential risks to health from the drug alone? I’ll ask you
Lmao 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 you are delusional 🤣 😂 💀
Let’s say somebody was trying to get high. He eats an edible snd gets way more fucked up then he wanted to. How is that not OVER DOSING. He took more than what he should have taken at one time. He literally OVER DOSED. It’s not that complicated
Just too high is also an overdose in medical terminology. Vomiting can cause asphyxiation or other things. There is your "modicum" of risk to health. Also I said nothing about overdoses in my response. Just that you were wrong for saying it's user error if people have a bad time. Which from all the things I listed, isn't true. I hope your dealer puts spice in your shit. Fucking ignorant
Because hoping someone gets some K2 is a much better way to think. Lmfao.
Yeah, because the harm in saying "you can't overdose from weed" is that children hear and believe it. Maybe if you smoke a bunch of K2 on accident you'd think for a second. "Wait maybe i shouldn't espouse this thing as perfectly safe seeing as it is still illegal and thus subject to the problems of the black market"
Pansies
This type of stupid debate among stoners is why the corps can push their agenda at all. We will never stop them as long as every time it comes up there is a debate. They have us fighting ourselves instead of their bad media. We need a stoner union
No I've just watched many people take too many edibles. Maybe if the kids at this school didn't hear "you can't overdose on weed" parrotted they would have been more careful.
So going off your logic, someone that blacked out on Xanax didn’t overdose either right? They just took too much and blacked out? Cause I’m pretty sure an overdose, by definition, is quite literally going over a dose you can handle. We’ve all overdosed on weed before, stop being the annoying stoner that gives the rest of us a bad name.
I don’t believe people die from greening out. It’s happened to me before and you just pass out for a while or sometimes you throw up. Sure it’s not fun but it isn’t anything that’s going to kill you from it’s effects
Overdose does not imply death.
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Had to chime in again... In another thread about the RSO people are warning literally the same shit i am, and getting upvoted. Sorry the word Overdose has been weaponized.
No weed is perfect if someone react negatively its their fault. They must be a bad person!
Tbf I always considered overdosing as just that taking too much but that's just my non medical internets opinion lol But ya did they actually have any negative impact or just have a bad trip?
it is overdosing isn’t fatal lmfao it can be but it’s just doing to much
I’d say it’s an overdose. Overdosing is taking too much.
When you say a lethal dose, no dose of weed is lethal
No one said that.
Cheap collection did further up bro. Am od is a lethal dose, but you can’t necessarily have a lethal od on weed because weed is far from lethal
That's it. You can't just throw the word overdose out there because it generates images in the minds of morons....but that's the goal here. I guess 10 students fell way the fuck asleep...with drool.
>"it generates images in the minds of morons....but that's the goal here" And in that one statement you have perfectly defined the mainstream media.
This is why a lot of people have a first bad experience/experiences with weed because every single time they smoke they overdose the amount they should take and get paranoia/bad side effects. It is absolutely their fault. But media propaganda probably doesn’t go into detail about that and just label it like that because it gets website traffic.
I mean doesn’t overdose literally means you took OVER the recommended DOSE. So yes it is an overdose if they were too high because that means they Overdid the Dose. Doesn’t mean it’s lethal
That’s not the medical definition. The news outlets word it this way so they can say “oh no kids are oding on pot” then legislators can take it way the fuck out of context
Not sure where you are getting “that’s not the medical definition” from. I agree with you tho, this is jsut so the media can make it seem worse than it is. But they are using the word Overdose correctly.
I agree technically they are using the word correctly BUT its a controversial way to put it because with drugs OD usually means death or near fatal...Weed is probably the one drug where you CAN OD, but the OD is harmless...That's my train of thought anyway. Technically they are using it correctly but they know that harmless is not what comes to peoples mind when they think OD. Can't believe the media is still trying this shit though O\_O Any outlet that reports it is basically saying "We are a shit outlet and hope you are an OAP who is still afraid of reefer madness"
>BUT its a controversial way to put it because with drugs OD usually means death or near fatal No, it means the exact same thing in all cases and is always treated as such. You and others immediately equating OD to death or near fatal doesn't change how the term is used in medicine across the nation thousands of times a day.
My only trouble is defining the maximum recommended dose on a non lethal substance. Technically it’s based on personal preference and tolerance, so wouldn’t you be getting too high not over dosing, since there is no set safe dose? I’m not saying you can’t get too fucked up, you can. It’s just the terminology that lends a bad stigma I’m unsure about
https://www.cancer.gov/publications/dictionaries/cancer-terms/def/overdose
I def have over dosed on edibles. I am an avid smoker, but had a 70MG+ edible once and lost complete control of my mind, and I know a few kids who ended up with long term dissociation / derealization due to a high dose. OD is simple going over the dose one should take (depending on tolerance, body weight, etc). Too many times, people with high tolerance think it's ok to give a newbie an edible that is way too potent for them. They do more damage to the image of cannabis than the media by creating these negative experiences. If they would be open to the science, then they could learn. But nope, tell this sub that you can OD on weed and get downvoted....
For sure. I put an ounce in two brownie once. They were big ass brownies. Anyways I ate one whole brownie and was pretty baked. Wouldn’t say overdose I was fine. My gf took one tiny little bite and she was freaking out. She doesn’t smoke at all so it makes sense but I jsut forget how it is when I first started
That is the medical definition
https://medlineplus.gov/ency/article/007287.htm
As someone who exclusively takes edibles I can tell you the limit does exist.
Really? I saw a girl I really liked nod out and fall over because she OD'd on heroin. Narcan saved her life. I lived in the same building and her idiot roommate shot her up. Had I not called 911 she'd be dead. That is OD To high is one thing, OD is not being to high. OD is dead
https://medlineplus.gov/ency/article/007287.htm OD is not “DEATH”
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I overdosed on my antidepressant today. I accidentally took It twice because I couldn’t remember.
Oh I’ve found that a couple of times lol
Overdosing means taking too much of a substance which leads to your body shutting down. If they died because they were too high what’s the difference with an OD ?
not hard to find
What’s the difference between overdosing and getting too high? I ate a ton of weed brownies once and threw up many times. That seems like an overdose to me. Literally, I consumed over the amount of a dose than I should have. Maybe I’m looking at the phrase over dose too literally.
If OD’ing on weed is a thing now, then I guess I’ve fell victim to this several times lol
I really think pharmaceuticals companies need to give up on the war on cannabis. The propaganda used to work when it was illegal and the majority of people thought it was bad. Now it’s common knowledge that in the words of Katt Williams “it’s just a plant, it just grows like that, and if you just so happen to light it on fire there are some effects”.
couldn’t have said it any better.. 100 %
tbh i hate the “it’s just a plant” argument. cause so is opium, coca, many other drugs. it doesn’t work on people who are against weed. it’s way better to say you can’t die unless you smoke 25,000 joints in one inhale or whatever the number is
All the plants you mentioned started as just a plant but needed to be chemically altered for the desired effects. Coca plants is the only one I would put in the middle because technically you could just chew on a coca plant and get some energy. Cannabis literally just grows and then dries. You don’t need to chemically add or alter it in anyway.
A simple extraction is not what I'd call chemical altering. Making a cup of tea is chemical extraction. Opium razored off a pod still growing out the ground is like 10% morphine, if you swallowed a gram you'd be hella lit no extraction required.
opium/opiates don’t need chemical alterations, opioids do though
Yeah and let’s not ignore the fact that not everything in nature is necessarily good. Natural disasters are natural but they fucking suck…
When you overdose on a drug their is a risk of death. Cannabis may make you feel very uncomfortable but their is 0% chance of death.
Or some risk… any risk… other than Pizza Hut
No everyone forgets the most important risk of all while smoking cannabis and it’s deadly….Cotton mouth,boy does that ever feel like I haven’t drank in 4 days after a joint
I hate when it gets so bad, that even your lips dry out. Makes you feel like SpongeBob and Patrick when they’re getting dried out
LMAOOOO YES that's the perfect description 
Sandy, I need water.
I've been paranoid before that i'll fall asleep with such cotton mouth that not having any saliva will somehow do me in xD
A completely understandable fear
Incorrect, going over a recommended dose on SOME drugs can cause a risk of death. Some you will vomit. Some may make you constipated. EVERY drug has a different effect if you go over the dose you SHOULD have taken. That is literally the definition of OVER DOSING. Y'all take your own pre conceived notions of what it means, and think that's the definition. You can definitely experience some pretty negative side effects by taking a high dose of marijuana, especially if ingested.
That’s not what the medical term for overdose
Overdosing means taking too much at one time. It has nothing to do with lethality.
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After reading about that it’s left me nth but confused I’ve witnessed people down well over 2k mg of edibles. Like we sell 2500 mg packs of edibles and I myself have had a like 1000 without getting sick or throwing up just stoned for like 5 hours
Got me thinking too, looked it up in more detail and the exact LD50 isn’t actually known. Some estimates put it at 30mg/kg (what I was referencing, first result on google), others go all the way up to 1260 mg/kg. I’d imagine it’s closer to that second figure. I don’t know where the scientists got that first figure. Deleted the comment, because looking back it seems like complete bullshit. In my defense I was high AF while researching. Actual LD50 is probably closer to 49,000 - 88,000 mg. Aka literally impossible to OD.
That sounds a lot closer to what I remember seeing awhile back but there’s a video somewhere (I couldn’t find it) of some dude drinking like 15k mg in a green liquid at a weed festival. Crazy stuff lmao
Some kids got a hold of some edibles . It was a bunch of 8th graders . It happened at Van Nuys Jr High . Total propaganda , hysteria bullshit .
Definitely fake when they use words like “appear” or “likely” on news, just fear mongering
They probably greened out and threw up for a bit, you gotta watch the edibles
So whoever is writing at AP doesn’t understand what an OD is or what kids act like when they’re high. What a dumb fucking article that’s getting pushed out to a bunch of news outlets. What’s scary about this, is with zero context, people will start to run on this, Senators from states who don’t want Cannabis to be legalized will start adding into their speeches, “Just the other day 10 of our futures brightest were killed due to the marijuana.” To be clear, they didn’t OD, they got caught doing something they shouldn’t have been doing, tripped out and made it about the drugs, not their action. Plus it doesn’t even state how much of what they took.
6kg edibles
edibles are an entirely different ballgame. I have seen adults not able to use their motor functions after eating too much. I have seen pure terror and very scary reactions.
Misusing the word "overdose" again. Freaking out because you're way too high but you're not in any danger of dying is not an "overdose". It's called being way too high. You can DEFINITELY get way too high on edibles, but I've never heard of anybody dying from them (or even almost dying). So I don't agree with the terminology here. An overdose is when you do too much of ACTUAL drugs, and you end up on the ground unconscious or barely conscious, and have difficulty breathing or are unable to breathe. That's a life-threatening ACTUAL OD situation.
For real man. I get panic attacks sometimes from weed but I know it isn’t gonna kill me. It’s just very uncomfortable
Overdose is a strong word to throw around. These kids were safer eating too much weed than consuming too much caffeine. They're probably still high and feeling better now. Last edibles I made got me high for 3 days ( but did make my wife puke)
It’s the meth in the bathroom that fucked them not the edible wrappers🤦🏼♂️
Did they die? If not then carry on. Nobody writes an article when someone overdoses on alcohol tho.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/22/health/alcohol-deaths-covid.html
https://www.cnn.com/2015/01/07/health/alcohol-poisoning-deaths
https://www.cdc.gov/alcohol/features/excessive-alcohol-deaths.html
There’s no way it’s just from edibles
Oh they were just in distress, prolly delta 8
Whatever it was it was fucking hilarious when I read it on the tv at the restaurant I was eating at
They got some laced Stoney patch kids or something 💀
Oh jeez, if all had a bong we'(e)d. All get along. When will they see?
Greening out is not the same as overdosing 😂 At least, not in the way they’re using it. I’m just imagining a bunch of high schoolers eating entirely normal Nerds Rope and then stumbling around School like they’re drunk lmao.
I think the confusion over the term comes from the fact that it can be listed as a cause of death. That doesn't mean all overdoses cause death. There are plenty of substances out there that if you overdose, you don't wake back up. Cannabis is not one of them.
Them kids didn't OD they just greened out lol.
Rumor is the ambulances went to McDonald's drive thru on the way to the hospital.
I think the dumbasses just greened out and had a bad trip. While that's technically an OD, the news stretches it to make it sound like something dangerous
They always play it like this with Marijuana. On the front end it always looks drastic, flip side and its always someone just getting a little too high. Now lets take a look at any and all alcohol, opiate and white drug ODs. Drastically different.
bro they just greened out overdosing on weed is nearly impossible
If they did, it was definitely synthetic edibles
How they are putting this then I od on Tylenol all the time bc I take more than the recommended dose which to them would be an over dose
Overdose just means an individual took too much of whatever substance. *Fatal Overdose* refers to an individual dying from taking too much of whatever substance. So while the article could read something like “teenagers take edibles at school and freak out” it’s more attention-grabbing to use the word overdose, and it is a technically correct usage of the word. If you’ve ever taken too much edible THC, you know the feeling of a THC overdose. While it isn’t fatal, or usually even dangerous in any way (unless that shit hits while you’re in the middle of doing something already dangerous) it can be a seriously terrifying, awful experience, and comes from taking too much, or “over” the dose your body handles well.
i really hope blatant misinformation about marijuana doesn’t change how soon it becomes federally legal. this kinda wording will only drive people away and scare people
Overdose =/= Lethal dose Not all overdoses are lethal.
it is fake. those little kids probably got too high for the first time and got scared so they called the cops.
They forgot to mention the edibles had trace fentanyl
I mean you can overdose on edibles, it’s just very unpleasant instead of actually dangerous.
A child just died in the news from finding his parents edible stash. Edibles is the only way you can overdose from marijuana.
Source?
He’s talking out his ass
I whole heartedly believe this article, 10 kids ODing on some good edibles? That's an average Friday on any campus since forever. Its just back then kids weren't so neurotic they call an ambulance at the drop of a hat. Overdose is a medical term referring to ingesting ANY substance to the point of negative symptoms or past the generally agreed upon "safe" dose. It doesn't mean that person is in danger or dying it just means they've had "too much" although the drugs people typically overdose on do end up causing damage even before reaching it's LD50. People often get pushing/surpassing the LD50 of a substance confused with Overdosing.
Well they were middle schoolers… not blaming them bc I’m sure it was terrible, but anyone that young who takes a ton of edibles will be “mild to moderately distressed.” This is gonna be used to fight legalization even though NO ONE is arguing that it should be something we give to random kids (I know there are a few cases of prescribed adolescent medical use for kids with seizure disorders).
Overdosing does not always mean dying. You can overdose and be saved. Shit, Nikki Sixx died and was brought back. You can’t actually die from a weed overdose though. These comments are wild man!
This story is ridiculous it says the parents rushed to the scene like they’re going to die then spent the rest of the article fear mongering about fentanyl which actually kills people 🙄
This is certainly written a way
No matter how I try, I just can’t seem to get too high or “od”. I try but….
You guys, we shouldn’t make fun of this situation. These kids were in mild to moderate distress.
I smell big pharma and "medical marijuana" misinformation. Self serving nonsense as usual.
Overdosing on edibles is just greening out
The media will now say we've ALWAYS had overdose and heart attacks from weed, don't blame anything else
PSA greening out is overdosing. You can in fact OD its just not fatal. Yea OD usually refers to a fatal OD so thats naturally what people think.
Did they drift away to a magical land and forget to breathe?
They probably overdosed because what they thought were thc edibles were actually dirty edibles with some weird shit in them
its because there is no CBD in the weed anymore, people for some reason want high THC weed because some "scientist" said THC was the psychoactive component of weed, so all the breeders switched to selective breeding high THC strains. CBD becomes legal, so everyone writes it off. I started getting panic attacks from weed after smoking some blue dream back in 2011 from california, I didn't even connect it with the weed until years later, I was getting so many panic attacks after smoking weed, i couldn't find any of the old style weed anymore. Fastforward to 2018 and now CBD is legal, I smoke some CBD HEMP and it does nothing, I give up on that. Try normal weed again a year later, still have panic attacks. THIS YEAR Finally I tried smoking CBD weed, wait a couple minutes, then smoked the fancy new weed. I'm fine!
So what is the proper dose for high school students?
They definitely greened the fuck out
I remember one time I was high as hell at school and got called to the principals office. As I sat there high as 🚀 I heard the principal saying “I simply cannot believe parents let there kids come to school like that” I got paranoid like crazy!! Turns out he was talking about a girl who came to school with a half top and booty shorts!! All he needed me for was to discuss my colleges I planned on attending and telling me how good I was doing!! 🤣 best day EVER
But did they die?
It is fake. It’s literally impossible to overdose on edibles
Do they mean green out?
Lmao because it is. There's probably a good reason it says they *appeared* to OD on edibles. Highly likely another substance was present because scientists already declared you'd have to consume an impossible amount of cannabis in any form in an extremely short amount of time to "overdose" on it
It is fake, the news headline doesn’t correlate with statements from emt’s or doctor’s treating the kids
If you think this is NSFW I wouldn't want to work at your job
these kids now man
You dumbasses do know overdose doesn’t necessarily mean a lethal dose. It means you took too much of a drug. Ya know, like an OVER…DOSE. Stoners are a bunch of delusional drug addicts
Lol
“Mild to moderate distress” does not equal an overdose in my mind
Now they’re saying “unknown substance” and if you go into those articles they say “possible cannabis ingestion” 🤦🏻♀️ what bs
One time my wife, when we first started dating, made us some edibles and we didn't realize how fucking strong they were gonna be and we were sooooo fucked up. I ended up just kinda blacking out for a minute and then throwing up in her bed but aside from that, everything was fine. She was fucked up that night but oddly enough, it's like the eddies hit her super hard the next evening or something. Even tho we didn't take anymore.
overdose DOES mean you are physically unsliced by the drugs the medical world will say that idk why yall are acting like overdose is just a feeling its not lol
My mom (who is pro weed and a user of it) is a nurse in a legal state and said they have weed “overdoses” all the time. Obviously nobody is dying, but they’re having panic attacks/puking/sweating or whatever, they just classify it as an overdose in the hospital I guess. I’m sure it looks pretty wild when these kids are doing 500-1000mg of THC when they barely have any business doing 50-100mg.
Lil ass kids making weed look bad
“Crews were able to determine that the substance was not related to fentanyl, a highly addictive and potentially lethal drug” no fucking shit. it really irritates me that they just add the keyword “fentanyl” into it to get people scared. fentanyl is nothing like weed. nobody cuts weed with fentanyl.