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Originally Posted by L-Pink
The fact is there are pot smokers that had they remained sober would not have died. Just like drinkers that had they remained sober would not have died. The fact the chart shows zero makes it lose credibility ....
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yeah, that chart is arguably poorly formed.
But there is a problem - there is no easy way to directly count what deaths may have occured thru driving while stoned. We dont have a way to measure impairment by weed. Last I checked there was no equivalent of a BAC. The tests we do have typically tell us a person has smoked sometime in the past weeks. They test for the metabolites, not for the thc level which would indicate impairment.
I just did a search on the subject and so far all my findings are the same. THC levels are particularly difficult to measure. You'd probably need a spectrograph and chromatograph - expensive, and I'm not sure even that would work.
So, somebody like you can say "There MUST be auto deaths caused by weed" - but getting the actual numbers isn't easy.
Still - the chart should have been created using a different approach. You need two sets of numbers, one for toxicity, in which weed is clearly a zero, and one for related deaths - for which it would be quite hard to come up with a real number for weed.
I wonder how you'd find that number?