Mother Dies Of Cannabis Poisoning

[mushroom25]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-dorset-25968093

.....or does she?

http://norml-uk.org/2014/01/daily-mail-sam-webb-dr-kudair-hussein/

which has the more credence - a legal process backed by medical opinion, or a non-partisan advocacy group?

[Prudie]

So this can be discussed objectively without the Daily Mail being slagged off they pinched this story from Ms Moss' local paper which issued it yesterday/

http://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/10975592.Bournemouth_mum_Gemma_Moss_believed_to_be_first_woman_in_Britain_to_die_from_cannabis_poisoning/

[Prudie]

By the way the comments added by my local Echo readers often rival the spats in AB News :-)

[mikey4444]

Serves her right for being a drug addict in the first place. And I am not in slightest bit surprised that the pot-heads disagree. To quote Mandy Rice Davies...well, they would wouldn't they ?

[Sqad]

\\\In recording a verdict that Miss Moss died from drug abuse, Mr Payne said: “The post mortem could find no natural cause for her death.

“With the balance of probability that it is more likely than not that she died from the effects of cannabis.”\\\

That is a big call by the Pathologist which was excepted by the coroner.


mushroom....I cannot answer your question.

[ladybirder]

Do you really mean "excepted" sqad?

[mibn2cweus]

"She started using it again to help her sleep after becoming depressed and anxious due to breaking up with her boyfriend.''

No mystery here. The poor girl obviously died of a broken heart. :o(

[jno]

pathologists in court may not be perfect

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/ian-tomlinson-pathologist-struck-off-1276426

and I must say the idea of anyone being killed by half a joint seems very bizarre. Norml's analysis seems quite factual. But I cannot answer the question.

[Sqad]

ladybird.......LOL...thanks "accepted".....of course.

[Peter Pedant]

It is pretty difficult - to kill yourself with cannabis

( unlike morphine or cocaine or ampthetamine )

and it is low on my list of side effects ( unlike morphine .... )

induced bradycardia he said.....

The alternative is to say "I have no idea why she died oh she w as taking a lot of cannabis by the way"

[jno]

not really a lot, though, PP, half a joint a night? Which evidently hadn't caused previous problems?

Sounds odd.

[Mamyalynne]

I agree with the quote by NORML - 'Bad Science' at play here, not a sound cause of death in my view, given the details we have to hand.

[pixie373]

I think it's more likely she had an undiagnosed heart condition. I'm not sure cannabis usually causes tachycardia anyway?

[LazyGun]

"I'm not sure cannabis usually causes tachycardia anyway?"

Its not usual, but it is not unknown either. There are plausible mechanisms by which THC can interact with the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous system, inducing tachycardia and hypertension at low to moderate doses, and bradycardia and hypotension at moderate to high doses.

MI is also a (rare) reported complication.

Still, set against the number of deaths from say alcohol, it is not something that people should be too alarmed at. Just sad that a young mother of two is dead.

[pixie373]

Fair enough, lg. Yes, it's sad whatever the cause.