...unexpectedly...
The CHILDREN!!!!
“As medical marijuana sales expanded into 20 states, legal weed was detected in the bodies of dead drivers three times more often during 2010 when compared to those who died behind the wheel in 1999...”
Good.
This means that with enough cheap dope, we can rid the nation of these dopers.
Give them all the cheap and powerful drugs they can ingest. Heck, give them pure smack for free.
Get them to kill themselves off as rapidly as possible and clean out the gene pool.
>> “Nobody hides it anymore when driving,” Cordova said. “They think it’s a joke because it’s legal.”
It’s called Dope for a reason...
And that’s not justification for the WOD.
A separate study — also based on FARS data — found that in states where medical marijuana was approved, traffic fatalities decrease by as much as 11 percent during the first year after legalization. Written by researchers at the University of Colorado, Oregon and Montana State University, the paper was published in 2013 in the Journal of Law & Economics.
Those authors theorized pot, for some, becomes a substitute for alcohol. They cited a recent, 13-percent drop in drunk-driving deaths in states where medical marijuana is legal.
“Marijuana reform is associated with … a decrease in traffic fatalities, most likely due to its impact on alcohol consumption,” said Michael Elliott, executive director of the Marijuana Industry Group, a trade association in Colorado.
Told you so.
Too bad pot heads can’t have dedicated highways just for them. People on drugs should leave normal people alone. They can do what they want with their own marginal lives, but others value life more.
Hang in here with me. This is on the subject. In Florida we had mandatory auto inspections for about ten years. The inspectors had all attended a course on how to be rude and take the maximum amount of time. Then, one day, the governor’s wife took their car for an inspection. She got the standard treatment. Two weeks later there were no more inspections.
In Salem the witch trials were making a serious dent in the female population. Then, the governor’s wife was accused of witchcraft. No more witch trials. So until somebody in the governor’s family or in some other powerful politician’s family is killed by a stoned driver, the rest of the populace will have to deal with the day to day tragedy of this situation.
It’s amazing how people with power are separated from the rest of us and can therefore ignore our plight. Back when I owned GM vehicles going to the dealership was a humiliating and painful experience. They were rude, took no account of your time and would lie to your face. (I actually had to go get a newspaper article to prove to the service writer my car had been recalled and then it took several more visits and me paying a couple of hundred to get the problem fixed.) The problem was the top GM brass never dealt with a dealer or kept a car long enough for the problems to manifest.
Innocents killed? Collateral damage. The criminals/socialists/totalitarians/banksters are making money from it. The lawyers have more cases for the damage caused. A legislative and agency job/regulation creator. Socialization of risk insurers get to up rate from any carnage (even on the non-smokers). Best of all dopes are euphoric from their substance of choice and are less likely to use their rational faculties to examine the manipulations and plunder of their pushers.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GN6eTXA0VlI
In short, that's why many prescription drugs have specific warnings against operating machinery.
As coincidence…FYI
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-02-15/drugging-america-summarized-19-mind-altering-facts#comments
Legalized theft.
Legalized corruption.
Legalized drugs.
It all fits.
(from zh poster “No Debt” in above link)
Because a head-in-rectum public allowed laws to be passed to make this stuff “legal” the same public is reluctant to admit that their stupidity led to accidents.
It was predictable! Anybody with a functioning brain could have known.
President Obama proved right once again, no more dangerous than alcohol.
Don’t let politics overcome your junk-science detector.
There is nothing in this article to suggest that the pot is actually causing an increase in accidents (making the headline unsupported).
Let’s be calm and realize that one can look at fatality rates for states where pot was made legal, and compare the trends with states that keep it illegal.
Pointing out that more people who die are found to have pot in their bloodstream is one thing, but suggesting that it is causing them do die is another. It’s like suggesting that because an increased percentage of blacks are among the fatalities means that blacks are dangerous drivers.
Of course, I accept the hypothesis that pot impairs ability to some degree. it’s just that the facts reported in this article don’t support the hypothesis.
the entire drug issue can be solved right here..www.fhu.com
Period.
Never met a stoner I could trust.