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Since marijuana legalization, highway fatalities in Colorado are at near-historic lows
WP ^ | August 5, 2014 | Radley Balko

Posted on 04/17/2015 1:48:22 PM PDT by Usagi_yo

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To: showme_the_Glory

You and Mike Donnelly (Chris Farley in Black Sheep)


21 posted on 04/17/2015 2:07:12 PM PDT by Resolute Conservative
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To: thorvaldr
It seems to me that the scientif method has been discarded, for the most part, in favor of “what agenda do I want to push? what data can I find to support my agenda?”. Not just this, everywhere.

It’s sad really, CO is basically performing a huge experiment, using it’s entire population as test rats, and nobody is objectively gathering the data from the experiment.

I remember how the regular crew of Pot Advocates trying to project successful conclusions just six months into this experiment. This is going to take years if not decades to produce anything demonstrable.

22 posted on 04/17/2015 2:09:48 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp
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To: thorvaldr

The scientific method went under the bus along with Robert Shafer back in ‘72.


23 posted on 04/17/2015 2:12:06 PM PDT by tacticalogic ("Oh, bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
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To: Usagi_yo

Maybe there are fewer accidents because there are fewer illegal drug smugglers driving in from Mexico.


24 posted on 04/17/2015 2:12:44 PM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: Usagi_yo

“The problem with these criticisms is that we can test only for the presence of marijuana metabolites, not for inebriation. Metabolites can linger in the body for days after the drug’s effects wear off — sometimes even for weeks.”

In my wild and misspent youth I tried marijuana. All I wanted to do was sit & listen to music or sit & chat with friends. There was no inclination to ‘go’ anywhere. That might not be true for everyone, but it’s definitely not a motivating kind of a drug.


25 posted on 04/17/2015 2:15:38 PM PDT by Twotone (Truth is hate to those who hate truth.)
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To: Usagi_yo

Im thinking alcohol makes you more likely to drive. You buy it at games, bars, restaurants, and then get in a car.
Weed is more like at home, or at someone elses home.
Not in any way less likely to impair driving if you use it before driving, but I think it doesn’t lead one to situations involving driving quite as often.


26 posted on 04/17/2015 2:17:40 PM PDT by DesertRhino (I was standing with a rifle, waiting for soviet paratroopers, but communists just ran for office.)
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To: Usagi_yo

My experience with MJ and driving is that it does not effect your motor control skills like alcohol does, but it most certainly affects your ability to pay attention. It’s real easy to zone out while stoned, and that could easily result in an accident.

I look at it like this. I would not go to the shooting range and handle a weapon drunk or stoned or otherwise impaired, so it does not make any sense to get behind the wheel of a car, which could also be considered a weapon, drunk or stoned.

You might well be able to handle it 99/ 100 times just fine, but that one time you screw up and kill someone because you got behind the wheel messed up you can’t take back.


27 posted on 04/17/2015 2:18:35 PM PDT by chris37 (Heartless)
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To: Lexington Green

Now that’s funny right there!


28 posted on 04/17/2015 2:19:04 PM PDT by Gaffer
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To: thorvaldr
Another pretend statistic....because they don't know how many dopers are on the road at any one time.

It's like climate change stats...

29 posted on 04/17/2015 2:21:34 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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It’s not really a made up stat. The deaths by driving were at one place. A big change was made. Likely others too. But there was a drop in deaths.
You can bet if there was a spike in deaths after legalization, it would have been presented as a cold hard fact that MJ was the cause.


30 posted on 04/17/2015 2:24:33 PM PDT by DesertRhino (I was standing with a rifle, waiting for soviet paratroopers, but communists just ran for office.)
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To: Usagi_yo

“Hey man, am I driving ok?”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPlW2lkB2HM


31 posted on 04/17/2015 2:26:13 PM PDT by dfwgator
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I think it’s more likely that you’re really not motivated to do anything when stoned but eat and drool. Also, they probably don’t remember where they parked the car.


32 posted on 04/17/2015 2:29:06 PM PDT by conservativejoy (We Can Elect Ted Cruz! Pray Hard, Work Hard, Trust God!)
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To: DesertRhino

“You can bet if there was a spike in deaths after legalization, it would have been presented as a cold hard fact that MJ was the cause.”

Without a doubt.


33 posted on 04/17/2015 2:29:30 PM PDT by Magic Fingers (Political correctness mutates in order to remain virulent.)
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To: Twotone

MJ and Alcohol. Both drugs of a different nature, different side effects and different psychological tendencies.


34 posted on 04/17/2015 2:37:38 PM PDT by Usagi_yo (Enormous wealth without God, something's bound to go wrong here.)
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To: Usagi_yo

Read that with great sceptcism.

The loony-pot mafia is as strong there as is the fudgepacking lot in Pelosiwitchland.

And math is even less of a friend of potheads than it is with liberals.


35 posted on 04/17/2015 2:38:40 PM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: Usagi_yo; Lexington Green

From personal experience. Stoned people stop at flashing yellow stop lights.


36 posted on 04/17/2015 2:41:24 PM PDT by BBell
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37 posted on 04/17/2015 2:43:37 PM PDT by BBell
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To: Usagi_yo

At the end of February, CBS on Drudge reported that fatalities were up. Now it is record lows. Wonder if weather also played a part.


38 posted on 04/17/2015 2:45:24 PM PDT by MHT (,)
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To: dfwgator

Classic. My first thoughts too.


39 posted on 04/17/2015 2:45:35 PM PDT by BBell
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To: chris37

I’ll give you a classics

Normally, when making a left turn on to a busy road. You look left, then right, then left again and proceed with caution.

When stoned, you’re liable to look left, then right, then left again, then right, and then start pulling out thinking, “I hope I didn’t miss anything”.

When you’re drunk, you think your exceptional peripheral vision and lightening reflexes has that all covered.


40 posted on 04/17/2015 2:49:39 PM PDT by Usagi_yo (Enormous wealth without God, something's bound to go wrong here.)
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