By: Mat Lee
Thanks for checking out today’s edition of More Deadly than Weed. We’re going to briefly discuss another no-brainer, yet it’s out there, getting consumed by millions if not billions of hapless people. It’s a major component of products like cigarettes that kill about 480,000 people a year just in the United States and an estimated 5 million deaths a year globally. Of course I’m speaking of Nicotine.
Sure, another low hanging fruit one might say, but not as low hanging as alcohol with its estimated 2.5 million deaths a year worldwide. But for something so many people do, and something that is completely legal in the great 50 states, assuming you meet the age requirement, it sure does kill a lot of people. Certainly making nicotine more deadly than weed.
Nicotine itself is a poison. As we all know, the dose makes the poison. I recently gained a better understanding for just how poisonous nicotine can be when I started mixing my own e-cig juice.
Before this, I’ve never messed with the pure stuff, and when the bottle arrived, it definitely looked like something that would make you pretty sick if you didn’t get your mixture right. A little trip to Google taught me the LD50 for Nicotine is between 40 to 60 mg, or roughly 1mg per kg of body weight. The bottle also made mention of not getting it in you or on you. At least not in it’s non diluted form. The bottle also recommended I wear gloves, an apron, and eye protection. Nicotine is a poison and a legal, encouraged one at that.
Now e-cigs and vape pens are everywhere, people mix their own, and of course it was only a matter of time before little kids got a hold of their parents gummi berry flavored nicotine juice and bottoms up that shit. It happened in New York back in June of 2013. This one year old got a hold of some, and the parents found him unresponsive, took him to the hospital where he died. Had this been weed, or even weed extract of some sort, perhaps the Rosin kind, the child would have been just fine.
If you are mixing your own e-cigs, or making your own e-spliffs, just remember one thing. You can always add more nicotine, but you can never add less. Always good to remember.
Thanks for reading, for Stuff Stoners Like, I’m Mat Lee.
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