There is an old axiom about slow drivers in emergency services. "Slow drivers do not have accidents, they cause them."
How is doing 10 or 20 mph slower than the bulk of traffic safer? Interruptions in the flow of traffic cause situations where accidents are more likely.
Pulling out slowly in front of that oncoming semi is only going to cost some truck driver his life or his living, and probably get the operator and occupants of the vehicle he hits killed as well.
I don't care what variety of impairment is involved, impaired drivers make the road more dangerous.
For alcohol, there is a legal limit to how much a person can legally consume. That limit can be avoided by the consumption of standardized measured doses of known potency.
Not so with marijuana, where there is variety in potency, dose consumed, effects on any given individual, etc. The results cannot be reliably 'normalized', nor can the dosage be anticipated during consumption as in the case of alcohol.
As for youth, there is a drinking age.
BTW, when it comes to the open road, we are not just trying to protect the young, but everyone on the road, from infant to elder,
First, where is it saying 10 to 20mph less than the traffic??? What is expressed in her statement is more like slowind down from the usual driving speed average you are doing...please do not assume people are all driving within the legal speed...
"For alcohol, there is a legal limit to how much a person can legally consume. That limit can be avoided by the consumption of standardized measured doses of known potency.
Not so with marijuana, where there is variety in potency, dose consumed, effects on any given individual, etc. The results cannot be reliably 'normalized', nor can the dosage be anticipated during consumption as in the case of alcohol."
you are right on that point! except where the user is the grower...but that's too rare...what would make more sense is if we had a way to "normalize" pot potency, then you get rid of that problem you expressed...so this brings us back to the good old legalization/regulation issue...
But i must correct, that with experienced user (aka mature user) potency is easily anticipated, and the effects go away after an hour or 2 (and that even for non experienced user)... As for alcool well it takes a bit longer...Don't get me wrong, impaired driving is impaired driving..You never know what can happen, but i just wonder with those studies why people will still defend with their heart and soul, alcool and bash all their heart and soul against pot, without real justification...