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A coroner in Louisiana that experts didn't agree with.


The coroner, who has been in his post since 1988, says it’s the first death on record solely as a result of excessive THC.

Experts have, however, cast doubt on the ruling pointing out that the amount of THC needed to kill a human being is much higher than that found in the woman’s body.

Dr Montegut is standing by his report and told the New Orleans Advocate: “It looked like it was all THC because her autopsy showed no physical disease or afflictions that were the cause of death.

The woman's boyfriend said she went to hospital complaining of a chest infection three weeks before her death but was sent home with over-the-counter medicine.

Addiction expert Professor Bernard Le Fol estimated that any dangerous level would be between 100 and 1,000 times higher than the THC level found in the woman’s blood, the Advocate reported.

Former White House drugs policy adviser Keith Humphreys also cast doubt on whether the woman died of a THC overdose.

He said that with the vast amounts of marijuana consumed in the US every year, it's hard to imagine that more overdose deaths wouldn't be occurring if THC was toxic at consumable levels.

“We know from really good survey data that Americans use cannabis products billions of times a year, collectively,” he said.

“Not millions of times, but billions of times a year. So, that means that if the risk of death was one in a million, we would have a couple thousand cannabis overdose deaths a year.”



Blamed weed based on his own incompetence.