Posted on 08/28/2017 6:09:36 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
Federal and state data show that the number of drivers involved in fatal crashes in Colorado who tested positive for marijuana has more than doubled since 2013. A Denver Post analysis of the data and coroner reports provides the most comprehensive look yet into whether roads in the state have become more dangerous since the drug's legalization.
It shows that Increasingly potent levels of marijuana were found in positive-testing drivers who died in crashes in Front Range counties.
The trends coincide with the legalization of recreational marijuana in Colorado.
However, Colorado transportation and public safety officials say the rising number of pot-related traffic fatalities cannot be definitively linked to legalized marijuana.
The industry counters that the data is imprecise and does not definitively link fatal crashes to marijuana use.
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I’m one of those for legalization, even though I’ve not touched it since 1977 and think it is dumb to do so. But I consider it a LOT safer than alcohol. If we were really serious we would make alcohol illegal. But we don’t for obvious reasons.
Fact is, driving under the influence of anything that affects your brain is bad. Dope is just one of those things. And, truth be told, it is nowhere near as bad as alcohol regarding driving. At the end of the day, however, we need to hold responsible the person that actually does it.
For some perspective, there is actually some quite useful information in this finny video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXPOw2unxy0
False flag. I can use cannabis on Monday, stay sober the rest of the week & be in a car accident on the way to Mass on following Sunday morning. When they test my blood they will find evidence of cannabis in my system.
That the best you can do?
Check with Soros for better talking points.
“Here, hold muh doobie.”
In Before The Reefer Madness Memes
(it was an exploitation film made outside of the Hollywood studio system to rake in bucks showing the kind of sinning that Hollywood couldn’t under the Hayes Code)
Mau Mau Sex Sex Official Movie Trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2oe7OWLhMgc
Dwain Esper: The King of the Celluloid Gypsies
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wMTPyTji60
You are wrong. Pot, especially today, is far more damaging than alcohol. Nevertheless, whether it’s alcohol or other drugs, criminalization of drugs (for adults) creates far more problems than their use. What matters is public intoxication (of any kind) and receipt of transfer payments of any kind by people using drugs. The “War on Drugs” needs to end, and resources need to be put into dealing severely with anyone who drives under the influence or who is intoxicated (by anything) in public. BTW, I’ve never used any illegal drug, and I do not drink alcohol and never have.
...The article is short on facts.
Do you trust the media...
On this, yes.
According to the state of Colorado itself, the number of drivers involved in fatal accidents who tested positive for marijuana in 2013 was 71. In 2014 it was 94, an all time record. In 2015 it grew to 115.
In addition, these dope-head drivers are far more dangerous than the drunk drivers I have encountered. While drunk drivers tend to have slower reactions and almost predictable oscillations, these dope-head drivers are far more erratic, confrontational, and confused in their driving. Furthermore, while the likelihood of encountering drunk drivers is concentrated more on the weekends and late evenings, dope-heads can be found on the roads throughout the day. They don't appear to be any rarer during work hours when most other people are working at their employers.
I think pot you buy on the street is more potent today than back in the day, no doubt about it.
And you are right, the problem is public intoxication.
Say it isn’t so......Maannn...
“Pot, especially today, is far more damaging than alcohol.”
Wow, a seriously false statement, especially considering cannabis doesn’t have to be smoked at all these days with the various oral & non-combustible methods for using it.
Total and complete bulls**t. Alcohol destroys lives. Prisons are full of people who wish they had never drank that fateful night.
Back in 1968, there was released two OLD exploitation films shown at drive in movie theaters.
MOM AND DAD(1945) and explicit film about sexual diseases.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0040603/?ref_=fn_al_tt_2
and
SHE SHOULDA SAID NO!(1949 title WILD WEED) about marijuana.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0041865/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
Yet all everyone remembers is REEFER MADNESS.
No way, man!
Don’t let facts get in your way. Today’s pot eats the brain because the THC levels are vastly higher than they were 30 years ago. Alcohol is bad, but pot today is physiologically worse. And, dimwit, I never said alcohol is good or doesn’t destroy lives. Learn to read with comprehension.
Pot today with it’s vastly higher THC levels is physiologically more damaging than alcohol. Neither is good for you (with the apparent exception of moderate amounts of red wine).
Pot today with it’s vastly higher THC levels is physiologically more damaging than alcohol. Neither is good for you (with the apparent exception of moderate amounts of red wine).
A lot of pot users also drink Alcohol, so it probably makes them even more impaired.
All of this comes back on personal responsibility. Abuse of any intoxicant, or consuming enough of anything, alcohol or drugs, which impair us, is bad. I think we can all agree on that. I hope we can all agree on that.
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