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 and Mike Donnelly (Chris Farley in Black Sheep)
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.
The scientific method went under the bus along with Robert Shafer back in ‘72.
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.
Now that’s funny right there!
It's like climate change stats...
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.
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.
“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.
MJ and Alcohol. Both drugs of a different nature, different side effects and different psychological tendencies.
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.
Classic. My first thoughts too.
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.
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