Posted on 07/03/2024 11:13:39 AM PDT by T Ruth
Marijuana use has risen dramatically, and it’s killing Americans — so why does the Biden White House want to make the problem worse?
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Simply put, increased marijuana use has led to significantly more Americans being killed on our nation’s roads — as people are not only driving while stoned but driving while stoned and drunk. ...
A recent study published in the American Journal of Public Health ... found that the percentage of car crash deaths in America that involved marijuana has skyrocketed since 2000. … So the total percentage of car crash deaths involving cannabis, either with or without alcohol, rose from 9.0 percent in 2000 to 21.5 percent in 2018 — to more than a fifth of all car crash deaths in America.
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The Obama-era DEA observed that “after a scientific and medical evaluation … HHS concluded that marijuana has a high potential for abuse, has no accepted medical use in the United States, and lacks an acceptable level of safety for use even under medical supervision.” ...
Despite such conclusions ... the Biden administration is determined to change marijuana’s designation to Schedule III. This would grant Big Marijuana easier access to banking services, allow it to write off business expenses (including for advertising) to the tune of nearly $2 billion a year ….
Pot use saps the motivation and vigor of a great many citizens who already struggle to succeed in school, hold down a job, and make their way in society. … Worst of all, it leads to the deaths of many innocent Americans who encounter stoned drivers on the road.
Marijuana “legalization” (the psychoactive drug is still illegal under federal law) is yet another failed leftist/libertarian experiment, much like open borders and open jails. ….
(Excerpt) Read more at thefederalist.com ...
there’s a REASON it’s called DOPE! If you are what you eat, you are what you smoke applies.
Because ChiComjoe and his puppetmasters want to give aid and comfort to the domestic and foreign enemies of the United States.
Trace amounts or influential amounts? If the latter, that’s really significant.
MJ ws legalized in AK
shortly after that crime and homelessness both increased exponentially - I’m certain there is a link.
I knew that this would happen, although I wondered at first how much trouble you could get into driving eight miles an hour.
Medical marijuana is starting here in generally conservative Kentucky in 2025. The Pro-Life forces here lost a ballot initiative 52-48 at the end of 2022. Don’t know how much suffering the American people will inflict upon themselves before they finally abandon the unnatural, nonsensical, chaotic ideas of exhausted liberal ideology but many of them just seem to want to continue on in liberal fantasyland. I’m hopin this crisis with Biden will get them to start questioning everything.
Someone I knew a little was employed long term as an elementary school bus driver and he was a “daily marijuana smoker” all the years until he retired. That turns out to be a term that I learned from Graham Nash’s autobiography.
He was in danger of being fired once but the county was unable to prove his use and he contested in court with a lawyer’s help and just continued. Handling of a test was fought over and a re-test looked like lawsuit bait for harassment money so the system didn’t accuse him again.
Thank goodness the kids were okay despite that.
It’s no less weasel-working than using the term “alcohol-involved”.
All it takes for anything to be “alcohol-involved” is any alcohol is in either vehicle. NOT the driver, just the vehicle. E.G. You stop while on the way home from work to pick up a bottle of wine for dinner. Some dummy runs a stop sign and t-bones your car. The cops see the bottle of unopened wine on the back seat of your car.
TA-DA! Alcohol-involved accident! That is how drinking-driving stats have been inflated for YEARS. Well, that and the constantly moving goalposts (first it was 0.15. then 0.10, recently moved down to 0.08, and in some jurisdictions they are pushing for 0.05 now)!
Now there is a new boogieman! WOOO, scary!
I can tell you that I’d rather be on the road with someone stoned on pot than drunks. Booze makes many folks aggressive and angry. Pot usually makes users far more passive and laid-back. Drunks drive way OVER the speed limit, stoners mainly drive s-l-o-w-l-y.
That’s what I have observed, anyway.
Weasel WORDING.
I read it twice and still missed the initial misspelling. I can’t even blame autocorrupt for that one...
It truly fries the brain. I would never trust a doper to work around any kind of machinery. It's dangerous to themselves and others.
In my younger days I drove after smoking marijuana.
I did it once and only once—it terrified me.
The road looked like a major earthquake had it—it was swaying up and down and left and right.
Supposedly current marijuana is much stronger than the old stuff.
Well, alcohol enters and leaves the bloodstream rather quickly. Weed is there for 4 weeks. One could be in a car accident and test positive for weed 2 weeks after smoking it.
I know a guy thst was s daily user...probably still is...that drove truck and worked in a warehouse. One day, there was an accident near him, but not involving him, in the warehouse. They UAed everybody, and naturally he failed. As a warehouseman. It never effected his CDL.
It went from 1/10th to a 1/5th after legalization?
I would’ve expected it to go much higher.
fwiw CO reported 5% increase in fatal car accidents after legalization it alsdo reported a 5% drop in OzD deaths over the same time period.
I’d add that recreational MJ was illegal at the time, in Oregon. Same guy got popped for DWI (can’t remember if it was before or after the warehouse accident. I’d like to think after, and they pulled his CDL, but who knows?) and thd State trooper processing him found a small amount of weed in his pocket. Threw it in the trash. The money was in the DWI (alcohol) and easy to prove.
The article sez 78.5% of fatal accidents were NOT caused by marijuana.
Correlation does not prove causation.
What percentage offatal accidents occurred where a female with a cellphone was the driver?
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