[WildTurkey]

Pot does not impare your driving...

I can't believe anyone would post such nonsense but every few weeks someone does. Congratulations.

[missyme]

I will tell you this in my wild hey day I have driven drunk holding my hand over one eye so I could see to drive not a smart thing to do and Thank GOD I never was in an accident I have also smoked pot and driven smart thing to do? maybe not but I saw the road just fine...And You?

[William Terrell]

"Of the many psychoactive drugs, licit and illicit, that are available and used by people who subsequently drive, marijuana may well be among the least harmful." Robbe, H. and O'Hanlon, J., Marijuana and Actual Driving Performance, Washington DC: Department of transportation (1993), p. 107.

See also: Hansteen, R.W., et al, "Effects of Cannabis and Alcohol on Automobile Driving and Psycho-motor Tracking", Annals of New York Academy of Sciences, 282: 240-56 (1976).

See also: Moskowitz, H., et al, "Marijuana: Effects on Simulated Driving Performance", Accident Analysis and Prevention 8: 45-50 (1976).

See also: Peck, R.C., et al, "The Effects of Marijuana and Alcohol on Actual Driving Performance", Alcohol, Drugs and Driving, 2: 135-54 (1986).

". . .either that cannabis. . .actually increases driving ability or. . .that drivers taking cannabis overcompensate for any loss of driving skills". Chait, L.D. and Pierri, J., "Effects of Smoked Marijuana on Human Performance: A critical Review", pp. 387-424 in Murphy, L. and Bartke, A. (eds),Marijuana/Cannabinoids: Neurobiology and Neurophysiology, Boca Raton: CRC Press (1992).

All these are a sample; there are plenty more.

If you wave your prejudices in everyone's faces without doing any research on their credibility, you just end up sounding ignorant.