Posted on 04/17/2015 1:48:22 PM PDT by Usagi_yo
Since Colorado voters legalized pot in 2012, prohibition supporters have warned that recreational marijuana will lead to a scourge of “drugged divers” on the state’s roads. They often point out that when the state legalized medical marijuana in 2001, there was a surge in drivers found to have smoked pot. ...]
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You consistently say stupid things about marijuana. Let me know if you've also been saying stupid things about other subjects and I'll correct you there too.
Yeah there are plenty of other issues that are far bigger contributors.
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The biggest being the economy.. people are broke and are driving less ,which is why we have a oil glut and lower gasoline prices now.
But I would have to say that not seeing a large increase in fatal accidents is encouraging. We essentially have with MJ a drug that we cannot measure the current/”right now” intoxication as it remains detectable for months... I would have to surmise that people are self regulating and staying off the roads when they know they are unsafe.
“Drunk people run stop signs.
Stoned people wait for them to turn green.”
yeah, sometimes they wait for them through a couple of cycles.No rush
That one fabulously, furry, freak..... brother.
Of course, but the point of the article is that legalization did not result in higher fatalities, as anti-legalizers claimed would happen. It discredits one of their main arguments.
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2. Anyone that has smoked marijana and believes that it makes you drive better is an idiot
No argument there, but the article is not about driving skills and marijuana. It is about marijuana laws and highway fatalities.
Sounds like another growth industry for CO.
Ya, ok.
Hopefully all of them. If pot is that good at weeding out the stupid, it never should have been illegal!
Of course, the continuing drop in roadway fatalities, in Colorado and elsewhere, is due to a variety of factors, such as better-built cars and trucks, improved safety features and better road engineering. These figures in and of themselves only indicate that the roads are getting safer; they don’t suggest that pot had anything to do with it. We’re also only seven months in. Maybe these figures will change. Finally, it’s also possible that if it weren’t for legal pot, the 2014 figures would be even lower.
This is simply a propaganda article with a propaganda headline posted by pro-pot people who want to spread propaganda about how great pot is. Anyone in their right mind KNOWS that MORE potheads on the road equals MORE traffic accidents.
Who says they're on the road?
Well, FWIW, out of all the stoners I do know, they usually smoked their weed at home, and either daze or nap the time following, so driving after getting stoned is not the same kind of issue as getting drunk before driving. The reason how I know is that they admitted after the fact that the reason why they were unresponsive or in obscurity the whole weekend was because they got stoned.
I would have to surmise that people are self regulating and staying off the roads when they know they are unsafe.
Or they are out of it and don’t want to go anywhere because of how stoned they are. THC is a depressant, it slows down bodily functions and affects memory function, plus makes you hungry and sleepy. Plus the habit, or lifestyle of a pothead, which doesn’t easily change is the fact that they get stoned at their home or a friend’s home and don’t often leave for a while after that. Some of them might have trouble even finding the keys to the car.
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