[Sixstrings]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'A') British man died after poisoning himself with two spoonfuls of caffeine powder bought over the internet, local media reported Friday.

Michael Lee Bedford, 23, from Mansfield, central England, was at a party in April when he swallowed caffeine powder that a friend bought online for £3.29 ($5.26), Nottingham Coroner’s Court heard Thursday.

He washed the powder down with an energy drink, and around 15 minutes later began sweating and vomiting blood. He later died at King’s Mill Hospital in Nottinghamshire, central England, the Nottingham Post reported.

The court heard that Bedford ignored the product's recommendation to take no more than one sixteenth of a teaspoon and instead took two spoonfuls of the powder -- ingesting a level of caffeine 70 times more than is usually found in a high-energy drink.
http://www.myfoxdc.com/dpp/health/man-dies-of-caffeine-overdose-ncxdc-102910

[Pretorian]

you can die from an overdose of water or anything else. Still I dont think a normal young man would die from 70 cups of coffee.

[MarkJ]

One of my cousins went to the hospital after consuming mega doses of pre-workout Nitric Oxide supplements as well as energy drinks in addition to unsafe over-the-counter supplements.

Although studies have shown that these ultra expensive pre-workout formulas have zero effect on performance, it remains one of the largest growth categories in the supplement industry.

Since many stimulants, supplements and research chemicals are sold in bulk form, it's important to read the label, understand safe dosing and/or have scales and other measuring devices to meter dosages.
Many of the suppliers of these supplements and chemicals manufactured in China, India, home labs etc, package the products themselves, so who knows how they've been handled and stored, or what added ingredients they contain.

I'm amazed at the amount of guys at the gym that will consume unproven over-the-counter prohormones, designer steroids, research chemicals (clen/nolva/clomid/viagra/cialis/levitra) and supplements with countless ingredients, then wash them down with energy drinks.

[Windmills]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Pretorian', 'y')ou can die from an overdose of water or anything else. Still I dont think a normal young man would die from 70 cups of coffee.

[TWilliam]

Darwinian selection in action...

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Sixstrings', 'b')ut I'm surprised a couple teaspoons of caffeine is so lethal

[Serial_Worrier]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Pretorian', 'y')ou can die from an overdose of water or anything else. Still I dont think a normal young man would die from 70 cups of coffee.

[vision-master]

No one has ever died of a marijuana overdose

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'T')his is true. It was put in to see if you are paying attention. Animal tests have revealed that extremely high doses of cannabinoids are needed to have lethal effect. This has led scientists to conclude that the ratio of the amount of cannabinoids necessary to get a person intoxicated (i.e., stoned) relative to the amount necessary to kill them is 1 to 40,000. In other words, to overdose, you would have to consume 40,000 times as much marijuana as you needed to get stoned. In contrast, the ratio for alcohol varies between 1 to 4 and 1 to 10. It is easy to see how upwards of 5000 people die from alcohol overdoses every year and no one EVER dies of marijuana overdoses

[Pretorian]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Serial_Worrier', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Pretorian', 'y')ou can die from an overdose of water or anything else. Still I dont think a normal young man would die from 70 cups of coffee.

[Serial_Worrier]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Pretorian', 'y')ou are probably talking about starbacks venti or something. I read somewhere in Scandinavia postmen (used to) drink 50 cups a day or so. Its sort of a mail tip overthere.

[rockdoc123]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'T')here are actually between 1,000 and 10,000 deaths per year either attributed to caffeine or where caffeine is considered a contributing factor...

[Pretorian]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Serial_Worrier', 'G')iven they were delivering mail in arctic conditions that sort-of makes sense. But not for an office worker.

[TheAntiDoomer]

Actual Almost everything is toxic at a certain level:

Salt, even water. The LD50 for water is LD50 is greater than 90 mL/kg.

http://conspiracyfactory.blogspot.com/2 ... toxic.html

[careinke]

I think the Pot LD50 for Canadian rats is 15 kilos dropped from 30 feet.

[bratticus]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Sixstrings', 'S')ad story.. A good reminder that just because something is "natural"

[Pretorian]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('TheAntiDoomer', 'A')ctual Almost everything is toxic at a certain level:

Salt, even water. The LD50 for water is LD50 is greater than 90 mL/kg.

http://conspiracyfactory.blogspot.com/2 ... toxic.html

[TWilliam]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('bratticus', 'I')f they could turn pot into a white powder it would kill you too.

[bratticus]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('TWilliam', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('bratticus', 'I')f they could turn pot into a white powder it would kill you too.

[Ferretlover]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('vision-master', '[')b]No one has ever died of a marijuana overdose

[TWilliam]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('bratticus', 'H')ighly concentrated extracts of cannabis are not white powders.

[TWilliam]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ferretlover', 'H')as anyone ever determined just how much pot would be needed to be classified as an overdose? As for the dying part, you are avoiding Lung cancer.