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More Accidents with Drugged Drivers As Medical Marijuana Use Grows
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| 7/3/2011
| Christopher Santarelli
Posted on 07/04/2011 9:29:45 AM PDT by Signalman
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posted on
07/04/2011 9:29:50 AM PDT
by
Signalman
To: Signalman
Fascist. Pot never hurt nobody!/s
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posted on
07/04/2011 9:34:32 AM PDT
by
Grunthor
(Support a POTUS candidate but don't get emotionally invested like a liberal.)
To: Signalman
Gee, who didn’t see this coming?
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posted on
07/04/2011 9:35:39 AM PDT
by
hattend
(Let's all meet Sarah at her last bus stop -- 1600 Pennsylvania Ave in Jan 2013)
To: Grunthor
I’m not even opposed to legalization but I knew this was coming. Watch how fast medical marijuana dispensary owners turn against legalization as a means of protecting their turf.
Even “Utopia” has to have some rules and is affected by human nature..
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posted on
07/04/2011 9:38:22 AM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
To: Signalman
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posted on
07/04/2011 9:40:22 AM PDT
by
smokingfrog
( sleep with one eye open ( <o> ---)
To: Signalman
There have been millions of high drivers on the roadways for many years. This is now worthy of reporting because.......? Personally, I think we need to get the drunks off the road and then focus on the other potential problems.
I’m no fan of pot, and am far from a cheerleader for its use. I am, however, libertarian in my view that the government needs to stay the hell out of our lives. Articles like this seek to flame anger and result in kneejerk reactions from ignorant politicians.
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posted on
07/04/2011 9:41:36 AM PDT
by
RobertClark
(On a long enough timeline the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.)
To: Signalman
If you take pain med, you really should not drive. For legal reasons and moral ones, a person just shouldn’t take that risk.
Medical marijuania falls into the same catagory.
Now certain other meds can make you a touch “woozy”, but as far as the law is concerned, nothing will bring the wrath down on you like taking a controlled substance and then God forbid get into an accident where someone is hurt.
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posted on
07/04/2011 9:41:40 AM PDT
by
I still care
(I miss my friends, bagels, and the NYC skyline - but not the taxes. I love the South.)
To: Signalman
The writer tries to expand the CHP's data about "drugs" in an all encompassing fashion to establish a DIRECT link between marijuana use and fatal traffic accidents.
Shameful.
I do agree that a standard, based on scientific study, is required to establish impairment. Just as a standard should be required for ALL substances known to cause impairment...like cough medicine, pain pills, tranquilizers, alcohol etc.
I also believe that objective observation of impairment should be required to be shown and attested to by any officer BEFORE a drug or alcohol test can be ordered.
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posted on
07/04/2011 9:47:22 AM PDT
by
Mariner
(War Criminal #18)
To: Signalman
What is it that makes people so unable to face reality that they have to be stoned, high or stupefied to get through the day?
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posted on
07/04/2011 9:47:43 AM PDT
by
count-your-change
(You don't have be brilliant, not being stupid is enough.)
To: I still care
Medical marijuania falls into the same catagory.
Unfortunately the claim of medicinal was more lie than reality. I'm not denying its painkilling effects, just pointing to the fact that no one seems interested in the pain killer without the high.
It could probably be pretty effective for my chronic arthritis pain but I'm not interested in getting high. In fact I've taken lots of painkillers that worked fine without getting me high but would prefer the natural stuff.
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posted on
07/04/2011 9:56:46 AM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
To: Signalman
More Accidents with Drugged Drivers As Medical Marijuana Use Grows The hell you say.
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posted on
07/04/2011 9:58:27 AM PDT
by
Texas Eagle
(If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
To: count-your-change
‘’What is it that makes people so unable to face reality that they have to be stoned, high or stupefied to get through the day?’’
Cancer? Quadriplegia?
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posted on
07/04/2011 9:59:24 AM PDT
by
Lexington Green
(One of the great pleasures of smoking is knowing that it annoys busybodies.)
To: hattend
Gee, who didnt see this coming? Stoners and potheads. They've convinced themselves they are the darlings of society.
But, then, they're stoned.
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posted on
07/04/2011 10:00:13 AM PDT
by
Texas Eagle
(If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
To: Signalman
‘Scientific standards’ for determining level of impairment is not there for road safety, it is there for slam dunk convictions. Reckless driving is a problem, distracting from that with a whole series of tests to determine impairment takes the focus away from the problem in the first place.
If you can’t drive straight, you shouldn’t be able to get away from it by blowing a low number in a tube. Or being able to touch your nose in a complicated series of instructions. A sleepy driver should face the same penalties as a drunk driver.
The continued creating of new classes of crime is the problem with our judicial system. End these ‘scientific standards’ and get back to actual probable cause for pulling someone over.
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posted on
07/04/2011 10:00:40 AM PDT
by
kingu
(Everything starts with slashing the size and scope of the federal government.)
To: count-your-change
If you need pain meds and take the correct amount you don't get high. That doesn't mean that you should be operating a car.
I shattered my wrist and was prescribed percocet for the first couple weeks afterwards. I decided to get in my car, because I didn't feel high. I didn't make it to the end of my street before I realized that the flow of things in my vision seemed altered.
Since I wasn't a sitting member of Congress and my name isn't Kennedy I decided to turn around and pull back in my driveway.
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posted on
07/04/2011 10:02:51 AM PDT
by
USNBandit
(sarcasm engaged at all times)
To: Signalman
The only thing that the statistics in this article prove is that more people are using medical marijuana as it becomes more available. I could write a similar article about how accidents involving people eating ice cream spike in the summer. I do not dismiss the possibility of a causal relationship between high driving and increased fatalities but this article does not even come close to making that case.
It would be helpful if the author had researched the total number of traffic fatalities (normalized for the population) and looked for a recent spike. It also would have been more honest if the author had given the total number of traffic fatalities in California so that we might have some perspective about 1000 pot related deaths. As it is, this smacks of a nanny stater adopting the misleading tactics of MADD for his own cause.
To: count-your-change
“Oh wow, man, like that’s not a freight train making for that crossing, man, I’ll just pull this lever and levitate my car to a higher consciousness and sail right over that train and on to the land of Honei-li and get my prescription refilled.......doobie doobie dee, dah dah dah dee dee....”
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posted on
07/04/2011 10:05:06 AM PDT
by
elcid1970
("Deport Muslims. Nuke Mecca. Death to Islam. Freedom for mankind.")
To: count-your-change
What is it that makes people so unable to face reality that they have to be stoned, high or stupefied to get through the day? Well, I'm clean now, but you ought to experience some of our realities. I'm glad drugs existed because I would have been dead at my own hand back then. Hell, the drugs nearly did that -- and I would have considered that, success.
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posted on
07/04/2011 10:07:37 AM PDT
by
Lazamataz
(Until Obama, has there ever been, in history, a Traitorous Ruler?)
To: USNBandit
If you need pain meds and take the correct amount you don't get high. That doesn't mean that you should be operating a car.I never did opiate-based drugs, but I've heard that from addicts. It's weird: If you have legitimate pain, the opiates tend to go to the part of the brain that needs the pain relief. However, without the pain, the opiates go to the part of the brain that experiences a high. Very strange, and worthy of future study.
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posted on
07/04/2011 10:10:05 AM PDT
by
Lazamataz
(Until Obama, has there ever been, in history, a Traitorous Ruler?)
To: Signalman
When it comes to drugs, nothing the government says can be believed. It is all propaganda and lies designed to support whatever their agenda happens to be at the time. ONDCP has decided drugged driving is the latest boogeyman.
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
H. L. Mencken
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