Maggiedoll wrote:
I don't think that the dog could have actually eaten a lethal dose of pot.. as far as I know, there IS no lethal dose of pot.. the issue with toxicity comes up when it prevents nausea from other things (like alcohol) so someone dies of alcohol poisoning because they were smoking pot too.
I once had a therapist who told me about having brought a puppy to a party, and the puppy finding a bag of pot... she said it was stumbling around. Definitely didn't die.
Every substance has a lethal dosage if the dosage is large enough. The concept of Cannabis having no lethal dose is with smoking it since it gets into your blood faster that way. You can't smoke yourself to death because you would go unconscious long before you would be able to achieve a toxic level of THC in the blood. Eating it takes longer for it to be absorbed into the bloodstream, which is why it takes longer for the feeling to come on, but is also why it lasts longer, because the dose is slowly being administered during digestion rather than instantaneously like it does through the lungs from smoking. It theoretically would be possible for the THC to reach toxic levels in the blood from ingestion since once you go unconscious the dose continues to be administered as the undigested Cannabis in the stomach continues to enter the intestines and would continue the dose unlike smoking where you can't actively smoke while unconscious without somebody else holding the joint or pipe to your nose and making sure it stays lit. When it's smoked, the lungs take in as much as 98% of the THC within 2 seconds, verses ingestion which will take in close to 100% over the course of digestion.
With a dog, the effect is the same except that the dog having less blood by volume than a human would mean that the concentration would increase in a shorter amount of time.