[grobdriver]

In America, we should punish people for doing a bad thing

You are absolutely right, and I absolutely agree with you.

I believe that legalizing pot will dramatically increase the number of people who use it, and I think it will follow that many of those people will drive under the influence of the drug.

They should be punished for their misdeeds, of course - but in the meanwhile someone in my family or any one of us here may be killed or maimed by one of them.
Face it - those who are predisposed to smoke weed are not in the highest percentile of those exercising good judgement.

To voluntarily (i.e. by legalizing) expand the number of impaired drivers on the road is not a good thing.
I don't think I'm being inconsistent here...

[gdani]

To voluntarily (i.e. by legalizing) expand the number of impaired drivers on the road is not a good thing.

If only there was some pre-existing punishment system for dealing with impaired drivers on other drugs. Then we could develop a model for marijuana based on that.

Oh, well.

[ican'tbelieveit]

People who drive impaired on the road do not respect those laws to begin with; so those same people would obtain marijuana illegally if they really wanted it and drive impaired.

[ExTxMarine]

Face it - those who are predisposed to smoke weed are not in the highest percentile of those exercising good judgement.

So you think that these types aren't already smoking and driving? Those who will break the law, will break the law regardless of what the law says. Do you honestly believe that there are people who have been waiting around until pot was made legal, just so that they could go out and start driving with pot in their system?

I am not saying that we should start putting pot commercials on TV so as to offer it to 3 year olds as Vitameatavegamin, but those who are going to smoke and drive have already been doing so - if you think otherwise, you are not living in reality.

This goes back to my first argument. Since we know there are people who will kill someone with a gun in the future, should we stop selling guns? The answer is NO.