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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My first thought.
1. Correlation =/= causation
2. Anyone that has smoked marijana and believes that it makes you drive better is an idiot
3. The last 2 winters in Colorado have been extremely mild (in relative terms) in respect to winter precipitation.
Drunk people run stop signs.
Stoned people wait for them to turn green.
Yeah there are plenty of other issues that are far bigger contributors.
You have an interesting point. MJ and alcohol both impair your ability to drive but, while alcohol makes you overconfident, MJ makes you paranoid. Maybe an impaired driver who is pretty sure he is being followed by the police will drive better than one you thinks he’s driving really really well.
The problem with any of these “statistics” is that the cops are pushing “reefer madness” and the MJ proponents are pushing “herbal remedy to all of humanities problems”. The truth is somewhere in between but no one seems willing to find out what the truth is.
Someone post the highway accidents in Colorado for the last two decades. We'll see if this is some more of that made up libertarian bullsh*t where they are trying to drive fabricate "evidence" in support of their agenda.
Meaningless statistic...it’s the same in just about every state. Increase car safety regulations, child seats, more new cars on the road....blah blah blah.....
I’ll only drive 5 miles an hour so I don’t attract attention
Fabricated.
I’ll bet speeding ticket revenues have dropped proportionally as well.
LOL!
It’s the height of insanity to think that a drug that supposedly cures insomnia poor appetite and relieves both pain nausea and epilepsy somehow doesn’t affect one’s awareness,orientation,and judgement. If stats tell otherwise it’s a crock.
I disagree with almost everything you say but for Blah Blah Blah. Blah Blah Blah sounds about right.
If pot makes people drive safer then lets get the airline pilots doped up and make the sky safer!
You do realize that Point #2 conflicts with point #1?
Driving 35 MPH for miles on end will do that..............
LOL!!.............
Or decided they didn’t need to make an excuse to be driving around.
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.
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