Posted on 01/03/2014 3:08:25 PM PST by Libloather
DAILY CURRANT – Colorado is reconsidering its decision to legalize recreational pot following the deaths of dozens due to marijuana overdoses.
According to a report in the Rocky Mountain News, 37 people were killed across the state on January 1st, the first day the drug became legal for all adults to purchase. Several more are clinging onto life in local emergency rooms and are not expected to survive.
“It’s complete chaos here,” says Dr. Jack Shepard, chief of surgery at St. Luke’s Medical Center in Denver, “I’ve put five college students in body bags since breakfast and more are arriving every minute.
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“The economists analyzed traffic fatalities nationwide, including the 13 states that legalized medical marijuana between 1990 and 2009. In those states, they found evidence that alcohol consumption by 20- through 29-year-olds went down, resulting in fewer deaths on the road.”
Uh, the fatalities also went down in the states that did not legalize medical marijuana. But where’s the meat? No meat. Just conjecture on the part of the authors.
From your link:
“Does this mean it’s safe to drive while high on marijuana?
No. The results “do not imply that it is safe to drive under the influence of marijuana,” “
“Everyone should watch it. “
Thank goodness for the safety driver ...
MARIJUANA AND ACTUAL DRIVING PERFORMANCECONCLUSIONS
The major conclusions from the present program are summarized as follows:
* Current users of marijuana prefer THC doses of about 300 ug/kg to achieve their desired "high".
* It is possible to safely study the effects of marijuana on driving on highways or city streets in the presence of other traffic.
* Marijuana smoking impairs fundamental road tracking ability with the degree if impairment increasing as a function of the consumed THC dose.
* Marijuana smoking which delivers THC up to a 300 ug/kg dose slightly impairs the ability to maintain a constant headway while following another car.
* A low THC dose (100 ug/kg) does not impair driving ability in urban traffic to the same extent as a blood alcohol concentration (BAC) of 0.04g%.
* Drivers under the influence of marijuana tend to over-estimate the adverse effects of the drug on their driving quality and compensate when they can; e.g. by increasing effort to accomplish the task, increasing headway or slowing down, or a combination of these.
* Drivers under the influence of alcohol tend to under-estimate the adverse effects of the drug on their driving quality and do not invest compensatory effort.
* The maximum road tracking impairment after the highest THC dose (300 ug/kg) was within a range of effects produced by many commonly used medicinal drugs and less than that associated with a blood alcohol concentration (BAC) of 0.08g% in previous studies employing the same test.
* It is not possible to conclude anything about a driver's impairment on the basis of his/her plasma concentrations of THC and THC-COOH determined in a single sample.
Of course it's possible.
Several cases involving 4 of the survivors have reported a type of stomach flesh eating bacteria, which resulted in substantial gains in fatty tissues, due to consuming too many tacos and burgers.
What makes that government agency and it's studies so honest, reliable and credible?
Agreed.
Also, I have seen marijuana cause bronchitis. And, why would anyone think that smoking anything would not cause COPD or induce cancer? After all, it took many years to reveal that tobacco was carcinogenic.
IOWs there are no reliable sources except the ones you pick!?! Right? lol
“his friend Peter”
Skinny Pete :)
“Where is the cause and effect? People drop dead every day from heart attacks.”
True. Plus I heard this Pinkman character ate a lot of fried chicken and used to work in a dry cleaning facility. Could be all the trans fat and industrial chemicals that did him in.
What makes that government agency and it's studies so honest, reliable and credible?
IOWs there are no reliable sources except the ones you pick!?!
Answering a question with a question is not the answer.
I was given two local news sources as examples of "studies" and responded with two university studies and a DoT study. You pick the ones you prefer or don't pick any at all. It really doesn't matter to me.
You have every right to evade the question...
Presbyterian/St. Luke’s Medical Center has been the victim of a satiric, hoax story posted today on “The Daily Currant,” an online satirical newspaper.
We are clarifying for anyone who has read this story that there is no such doctor as “Jack Shepard” on our medical staff and that there have been no deaths due to marijuana at our hospital. The article is a completely fabricated work of fiction created by “The Daily Currant.”
This online publication’s website states that “Our stories are purely fictional….they are meant to address real-world issues through satire.” We regret any confusion or concern that this fictitious posting may have caused.
It’s a stupid question. Every time you play that game it’s stupid. Who cares what I think about it? I put forth some choices and left the choosing to the person I posted to and anyone else reading. Not hard to do unless you’re so stupid that you can’t even form an opinion of your own.
You already said what you thought about it when you implied or suggested the Department of Transportation was a credible government agency, if not the most credible...No?
I simply asked what you based your assessment on.
BTW, I’m just pullen your tail...
I did not. That is a false assumed premise. A red herring. I asked the other poster what credibility he would give it. It was an open question to that poster and that poster alone. He was and is free to respond that he considers it less credible than the UofC Denver study which he was impugning with a straw man argument or his own examples which were two local news station's "studies."
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