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Too Stoned to Drive?
Reason magazine ^ | November 2013 | Jacob Sullum

Posted on 10/20/2013 8:06:13 AM PDT by Second Amendment First

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As with alcohol, setting arbitrary limits for impairment is a political rather than practical idea. I know people who can safely operate a vehicle at twice the legal limit for booze and others who I am afraid to ride with who are stone cold sober. The ones I fear most are those with their cell phones that I see everyday crossing lines and totally distracted. A close second is those talking with their passengers while gesturing and looking at them. Some people are just unsafe drivers period.
1 posted on 10/20/2013 8:06:13 AM PDT by Second Amendment First
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To: Second Amendment First

What’s the difference between a drunk driver and a stoned driver?

The drunk driver will blow right past a stop sign.
The stoned driver will wait for it to turn green.

;^)


2 posted on 10/20/2013 8:13:59 AM PDT by elcid1970 ("In the modern world, Muslims are living fossils.")
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3 posted on 10/20/2013 8:14:16 AM PDT by P.O.E. (Pray for America)
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Anybody who didn’t see this coming is an idiot.


4 posted on 10/20/2013 8:15:09 AM PDT by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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The stoned driver will wait for it to turn green.

Hey...I resemble that remark...about 35 years ago...

5 posted on 10/20/2013 8:16:03 AM PDT by Popman (Liberal wars are about killing people for humanitarian reasons...)
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To: cripplecreek

Exactly!


6 posted on 10/20/2013 8:17:55 AM PDT by Second Amendment First
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To: Second Amendment First

I’ve always felt that decriminalization was the wiser route.

With legalization come new laws and taxes.


7 posted on 10/20/2013 8:21:07 AM PDT by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: cripplecreek

And lobbyists of all stripes.


8 posted on 10/20/2013 8:22:29 AM PDT by Second Amendment First
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wha?


9 posted on 10/20/2013 8:23:44 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
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Some people are just unsafe drivers period.

My now passed uncle always claimed the most dangerous animal on the planet was a 16-24 year old female with a driver's license.

10 posted on 10/20/2013 8:23:55 AM PDT by bigheadfred
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And a cell phone I would now add.


11 posted on 10/20/2013 8:29:15 AM PDT by Second Amendment First
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My now passed uncle always claimed the most dangerous animal on the planet was a 16-24 year old female with a driver's license.

After many years riding a motorcycle, little blonde girls in little red cars can still make the hair on the back of my neck stand up.

12 posted on 10/20/2013 8:29:16 AM PDT by tacticalogic ("Oh, bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
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To: Second Amendment First

I’m curious. What conditions warrant medical marijuana use at age 27? How does one get medical marijuana “status”?


13 posted on 10/20/2013 8:46:53 AM PDT by Artie (We are surrounded by MORONS)
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“How does one get medical marijuana “status”?”

Pay a doctor $100 and claim some unexplained pain that is helped by staying stoned all the time. 99.9% of all the medical marijuana cards are issued to stoners with no medical problems at all.


14 posted on 10/20/2013 8:58:17 AM PDT by Beagle8U (Free Republic -- One stop shopping ....... It's the Conservative Super WalMart for news .)
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Well, article is poppycock because it all has to do with the strain of Marijuana.

All Marijuana highs are not the same. There is stuff that one big hit will velcro you to the couch. Then there is stuff you smoke and end up vacuuming your entire house 6 times.

Stoned people don’t carry guns. A stoned person would laugh at you before pulling a gun — even while you are beating on them.

Stoned people and 80 year old’s drive the same. 35 mph everywhere, unless its a 25 mph zone, in which case they go 15. They hug the right shoulder and don’t realize they’re left turn signal has been on for the past 80 miles. They fall asleep at red lights and have difficulty parallel parking, diagonal parking, vertical parking and horizontal parking.

And if you see smoke coming from under their care it’s because they left the parking break on.


15 posted on 10/20/2013 9:09:42 AM PDT by Usagi_yo
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My now passed uncle always claimed the most dangerous animal on the planet was a 16-24 year old female with a driver’s license.

My Father, God keep him, used to tell me that the most dangerous person behind the wheel was an old man in a hat. Then he proved by becoming that old man.


16 posted on 10/20/2013 9:13:06 AM PDT by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: Artie; Beagle8U

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Epilepsy / Seizures
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Basically get a prescription from a doctor.

My oldest sister has suffered with severe asthma since childhood. Our family doctor gave her marijuana as a child, which my father rolled into cigarettes for her. This was in the mid-forties. My sister remembered it when, as a teacher, the police burned some weed so they would recognize the odor.

Beagle, do you have a source for your 99.9%?


17 posted on 10/20/2013 9:13:35 AM PDT by Second Amendment First
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To: tacticalogic

After many years riding a motorcycle, little blonde girls in little red cars can still make the hair on the back of my neck stand up.

I had to read that twice!


18 posted on 10/20/2013 9:14:26 AM PDT by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: elcid1970

The cop will pull the guy on LSD over. The guy will ask, “How fast was I going officer?” The cop will say, “ 6 miles an hour. Get out of the car.”


19 posted on 10/20/2013 9:17:32 AM PDT by bmwcyle (People who do not study history are destine to believe really ignorant statements.)
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driving under the influence of a drug (DUID)

Pronounced "duuude!".

20 posted on 10/20/2013 9:17:32 AM PDT by Moltke (Sapere aude!)
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