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To: davesdude
From your link to http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn2063:
In the study, cannabis significantly affected only one criterion, known as tracking ability. Volunteers found it more difficult to hold a constant speed and follow the middle of the road accurately while driving around a figure-of-eight loop. The TRL researchers point out in their draft report that this test requires drivers to hold their concentration for a short time, a task which is particularly badly affected by the intoxicating effects of cannabis.

So the inability to drive in a straight line and stay on your side of the road is no problem, eh? You know what the defining characteristic of a zealot is, right? The ability to reframe any statement, no matter how damning, so that it seems to support his premise. Anyone with an ounce of sense reading the above paragraph would have to admit that driving while high is incredibly dangerous. But the weed-zealots try to minimize the dangers by comparing it to driving drunk (clever, but disgustingly dishonest). Driving while impared is dangerous, whether on weed or on booze. Neither should be tolerated...

249 posted on 04/14/2006 1:19:48 PM PDT by Charles H. (The_r0nin) (Hwæt! Lãr biþ mæst hord, soþlïce!)
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To: Charles H. (The_r0nin)

Man, leave the talking to smoking joe, he is being way more constructive than you...let me explain my point...

"So the inability to drive in a straight line and stay on your side of the road is no problem, eh?"

You are being zealot yourself, where is it stated the INABILITY??(not shouting there :D ) and it is affected on a "figure-of-eight loop"...i would like to see a drunk driver on such a track, that do not even exist on the real road!!

"Neither should be tolerated..." and neither is being tolerated here...i am not saying "everybody let's druive and fly" i am curious to see how many people will still try demonize the weed against scientific datas...how many are being zealous (but you are right that not some stoners are being zealous, but not all...that would be zealous in itself to calim all stoners are zealous you know...)! note: smoking joe ommitted cause he is almost the only one that didn't use any stereotypes and presented strong points based on logic...

peace


258 posted on 04/16/2006 8:29:03 PM PDT by davesdude
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