Posted on 07/11/2014 7:29:08 AM PDT by Kazan
Two new University of Colorado studies paint an ominous picture of the direction of the state since marijuana commercialization, but neither provides conclusive evidence that legal pot is causing harm.
One study shows more drivers involved in fatal car accidents in Colorado are testing positive for marijuana — and that Colorado has a higher percentage of such drivers testing positive for pot than other states even when controlled for several variables. But the data the researchers use does not reveal whether those drivers were impaired at the time of the crash or whether they were at fault.
"The primary result of this study may simply reflect a general increase in marijuana use during this ... time period in Colorado," the study's authors write.
The other study shows that perceptions of marijuana's risk have decreased across all age groups with the boom in marijuana businesses in the state. The study also finds that near-daily marijuana use among adults increased significantly starting in 2009, relative to states without medical marijuana laws. But the study's authors acknowledge that they cannot show Colorado's marijuana laws are the reason for the shifts in attitudes and use.
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One way to “weed” them out.
LOL
Whoooa! I drive a Colorado, 2011, Where do I look for the pot? I know there have been a bunch of Chevy recalls but haven't heard of this one!
Sorry, couldn't help myself :>)
You can smell marijuana. It has a very strong smell. The fumes will affect people nearby. The same people who will stop everyone from smoking cigarettes stating that 2nd hand smoke will kill people around the smokers are all fine with marijuana which is known to cause the same health damage as cigarettes but will also cause brain damage.
Brain damage is what democrats are counting on.
“We either live in a free society or we live in a police state”
With no possibility of anything in between? Like having no laws against food, drugs and substances you buy that are knowingly designed to kill or to sicken you or your children? That anyone can sell anything they choose and call it anything they want and make any claim they want about it no matter what, whether it will kill you, maim you, or cause long term harm? No laws against fraud, theft or murder? Anyone can engage in reckless behavior against you or your family on the highway or anywhere else. It’s OK for your neighbor to poison your well and your livestock, or trespass and cut down all of your trees?
That’s not living free nor in a police state. That’s called anarchy and chaos.
Did we have anarchy before we had the WOD?
If you could detect alcohol for a month after having a glass of wine then we would be comparing apples to apples.
It's in that same section where they have power over Anthrax, Nerve Gas, and Nuclear Material. You know, the DEFEND THE NATION section.
The others you list are recognized weapons of war that cause mass casualties.
/johnny
Anyone here on FR have any information as to the current auto insurance rates in Colorado?
I would think that every single auto insurance company would have to raise their rates over this issue.
How many Colorado companies are now screening for drugs versus their Workmen’s Comp insurance???
Just looking at pot will turn you into a fiend - or a bat.
"But the data the researchers use does not reveal whether those drivers were impaired at the time of the crash".
LOL
The others you list are recognized weapons of war that cause mass casualties.
/johnny
You haven't really studied drugs much, have you?
Regarding Marijuana, that' s a sensible position. Regarding the harder stuff, the jury's already in on that.
You want to stretch the Constitution to let the feds do whatever YOU want them to do. It doesn't work that way. Police powers are STATE powers. And have been for most of the nation's history.
/johnny
Yeah, do you know what this is?
You want to stretch the Constitution to let the feds do whatever YOU want them to do. It doesn't work that way. Police powers are STATE powers. And have been for most of the nation's history.
No stretching needed. Drugs are an existential threat to a nation, and so it is within the mandate of the Defense of the Nation to prohibit and and interdict them.
Are more people driving under the influence of marijuana now that marijuana is legal? That might be a logical outcome of just having it no longer being a crime.
Always have been until recently. I don't give a damn what you think has changed.
You want control at the federal level over drugs, get a constitutional amendment, like for alcohol prohibition.
Under your 'existential threat' theory, anything can be under the control of the feds and the military.
/johnny
Disagree. They are often extra national in origin, and no state agency can deal with this.
Always have been until recently. I don't give a damn what you think has changed.
I don't think anything has changed. I think the Federal government has always dealt with extra national threats that have the power to kill millions of American citizens.
What I do think is that you do not comprehend that chart I showed you. It explains why drugs weren't a problem until they started becoming a problem, at which point we banned them, and thereby prevented a massive problem.
You want control at the federal level over drugs, get a constitutional amendment, like for alcohol prohibition.
Sure. Right after we get a constitutional amendment to ban nerve gas.
Under your 'existential threat' theory, anything can be under the control of the feds and the military.
Anything which will kill millions, yes. Harmless stuff that doesn't hurt anyone? No. Marijuana may be harmless, but the harder stuff is definitely not.
I have known several people who killed themselves with that crap. Two of them left behind infant children.
Take away their license to drive forever if they are this stupid and pot-headed.
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