If the author has so many excellent data points, why doesn’t he use the absolute number instead of the relative change?
If there used to be a whopping TWO mary-jane related fatalities and it increased to FOUR, that would be a 100% increase from danged near nothing to still nothing.
I suspect he’s embarrassed by the paucity of his counts, otherwise, he’d use them.
A study should be made before more states legalize.
Well, if a greater percentage of the populace is driving stoned, and the rate per day of traffic accidents is holding steady, the percentage of stoned accidents will perforce increase, so I would like to see the effect on total number of accidents addressed in the statistics.
“If there used to be a whopping TWO mary-jane related fatalities and it increased to FOUR, that would be a 100% increase from danged near nothing to still nothing.”
My thoughts exactly. Control-freak “news” from the Hypersensitive Crowd. The people who support Mooche’s lunch programs and go berserk over 16 oz. Soda cups.
Contrary to the endless sarcastic comments in the news from Fox to local, there aren’t millions of stonies wandering Colorado like the Walking Dead.