I have known quite a few regular, every day marijuana users.
In 90% of these users it causes their reflexes to slow down like molasses and it causes them to be lazy as hell and want to do nothing but eat while they’re smoking this garbage. The effects for the big time pot heads are almost identical to drinking a 12 pack of beer. We all know what a 12 pack of beer does to our senses, especially when trying to drive a vehicle. The government goes way to easy on drunk drivers. Legalizing dope will cause more deaths on the highway, and is that what we really need? It’s all BS.
A number of non-Rx medications can render a person unfit to drive too. Antihistamines chief among them. And of course, Rx medications some of which could hose one’s alertness as bad as, if not worse than, Rx pot.
I’ve often wished that patrol cars could carry reaction-testing machines, because that would take most of the subjectivity out of “too impaired to drive.” And it would help deal with medication-impairment cases.
“The government goes way to easy on drunk drivers. Legalizing dope will cause more deaths on the highway, and is that what we really need? It’s all BS.”
Who deal with drunk drivers? The feds or the states?
Why can’t the states deal with your worries about drugged drivers and let the feds stick to what they are Constitutionally authorized to do?