From wingedfootfotos
A medical examiner blamed a 17-year-old track star’s death on the use of too much muscle cream, the kind used to soothe aching legs after exercise.
Arielle Newman, a cross-country runner at Notre Dame Academy on Staten Island, died after her body absorbed high levels of methyl salicylate, an anti-inflammatory found in sports creams such as Bengay and Icy Hot.
The NYC medical examiner’s spokeswoman, Ellen Borakove, said the teen used “topical medication to excess.” She said it was the first time that her office had reported a death from using a sports cream.
Methyl salicylate poisoning is unusual, and deaths from high levels of the chemical are rare.
It’s about to become more rare in my household!
Dija-no Dept: Wintergreen is methyl salicylate. “Wintergreen essential oil (methyl salicylate) is highly toxic. Oral intake of 4-6 grams of pure wintergreen oil can be fatal. If absorbed through the skin in high dosages it can produce central nervous system problems, fluid build-up in the lungs, and collapse.”
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RBG
I’m a runner, but I’ve not used these creams much. My Dad has some concotion that he says my grandfather came up with for sore muscles. I use that if I need something and warm wraps or heating pad dosen’t do it. Drawback: Women are NOT impressed with the odor, something akin to *Eu de Outhouse Summer Afternoon*. 🙂
So, lately spinach and sports creme has killed people. Alcohol and tobacco have certainly killed between 5 and 10 people this year.
Marijuana hasn’t killed anybody, ever.
What’s more dangerous?
#4
This is the lamest argument pro marijuana ever.
No it isn’t. Quoting someone else and not referencing the cite is the lamest argument ever.
BTW, di-Hydrogen Monoxide kills people every year, causes untold billions in damages, will ruin many electronic devices on contact, causes more burn type injuries then do burning Christmas trees every year, and is a major component of acid rain. Yet, the government treats it as if it is as innocuous as water. Simply because di-Hydrogen Monoxide is a superior fire retardant and extinguisher.
http://www.dhmo.org/facts.html
My convoluted point being, tests involving one product (tobacco) will seldom correlate to a second, different (marijuana) product.
that’s it I’m giving up running….oh wait…ummmm nevermind
#4 IMHO made more sense and certainly more relevant then #5 lame rant. Oh, and because Mr. Fusion aka Lard butt, I am too lazy to find the reference my self, pls click for #4 overlooked reference. It may not be 1st source but, close enough for the topic.
Muscle cream? That sounds dirty.
She was juicing.
#4, 7: Got any studies more recent than three decades old? Just curious.
Wikipedia’s article on marijuana has quite a few links to studies showing that marijuana is much less harmful than alcohol or tobacco…
Methyl salicylate is a salicylate just as aspirin. You pop too much Aspirin, Motrin, or tylenol and it can kill you too. Typically, the skin route is safer than popping pills.
You can find a recipe for making your own ibuprofen cream here. It works without as much stomach upset: http://painrelief.grouppekurosawa.com/
Sorry to be a bearer of bad news, but the only difference between marijuana and heroin is the half life. They both activate the mu opiod receptor, which leads to pain relief, and they both cause dopamine release inducing euporia. Heroin/morphine hits the mu opiod receptor and secondarily hits the CB1/marijuana receptor. With marijuana , the reverse is true.
If you are a skinny person, there is no doubt you can go into withdrawl from marijuana just like you can go into withdrawl from heroin. The only reason you don’t see withdrawl as often with marijuana is marijuana is stored up in the fat cells. Inducing THC withdrawl in a rat is easily done.
You make your own morphine (AKA endorphins) and marijuana (AKA Anandamide). While endorphins and andamide protect your nervous system, morphine and marijuana fry it. There is no debate about this. It is far healthier to increase production and secretion of the natural chemicals.
4. “THC (tetrahydrocannabinol) might not ever be fatal, but nicotine itself doesn’t kill a lot of people either.”
That makes no sense. You admit that marijuana might never be fatal, but yet because a completely difference substance does not kill a lot of people, marijuana must be dangerous.
Let’s put this in perspective to make it utterly apparently how ludicrous your post is:
“The intake of water for hydration might not ever be fatal, but nicotine itself doesn’t kill a lot of people either.”
Can you explain to me how comparing the death rates of the use of water to the use of nicotine tells us anything about water?! When you’re done with that, you can explain how comparing the death rates of marijuana to nicotine tells us anything about marijuana.
#7, You missed the point. Sure you posted a link, but #4 didn’t. It was pretty obvious he was quoting someone else. HE made the argument, not me. Don’t expect me to do his research for him. That is worthy of a failing grade in school and being ignored in life.
He foisted his argument on us. You turn around and blame us because he made a poor argument and didn’t cite his reference. Isn’t that the same as blaming the victim instead of the perpetrator?
FYI, My “lame rant” was a satirical simile to #4’s inane rant. If YOU had bothered to check out the link I provided it would have been abundantly clear.