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.
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
I’ll bet speeding ticket revenues have dropped proportionally as well.
Driving 35 MPH for miles on end will do that..............
Or decided they didn’t need to make an excuse to be driving around.
Maybe there are fewer accidents because there are fewer illegal drug smugglers driving in from Mexico.
“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.
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.
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.
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.
From personal experience. Stoned people stop at flashing yellow stop lights.
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.
A lot less people on the road driving to work.
Bull**** in black and white. I think that the idiot who came up with these stats got into somebody’s stash. LOL!