Traffic fatalities linked to pot are up sharply in Colorado

KKTV ^ | 8-28-17

[minnesota_bound]

Gee I thought marijuana was benign.
You know, used for medicinal purposes....

[oldtech]

They need to look to the greedy people who decided to legalize this idiocy. By the way,this problem is only part of the overall problem that also affects other states. I think law enforcement folks can vouch for this.

[oldtech]

They need to look to the greedy people who decided to legalize this idiocy. By the way,this problem is only part of the overall problem that also affects other states. I think law enforcement folks can vouch for this.

[sparklite2]

The denial is there, alright, except it’s yours.
All the drivers would test positive for hemoglobin, too, but that doesn’t mean it is a factor in their deaths.

[achilles2000]

I haven’t seen the 35% number, and I have emphasized that my issue is recreational use. As I said, if I had your problems, I might well do likewise. Good luck

[achilles2000]

Someone just told me that there are varieties with 35% THC. If I had a medical condition that pot mitigated, I would consider using it. But, you are right, what we’ve lived through is analogous to the switch from beer to gin (see Hogarth) or other distilled spirits. As a recreational drug, pot is going to create a lot of highly impaired “citizens”.

[achilles2000]

Someone just told me that there are varieties with 35% THC. If I had a medical condition that pot mitigated, I would consider using it. But, you are right, what we’ve lived through is analogous to the switch from beer to gin (see Hogarth) or other distilled spirits. As a recreational drug, pot is going to create a lot of highly impaired “citizens”.

[cherry]

I’ve always thought that if they actually tested for weed in all accidents, they’d find it more often than not...

[cherry]

I don't trust the media...

but I trust my instincts...

I predict that we'll get all these studies about how bad weed is and then we'll get whole new depts. and programs to combat it, of course having to raise taxes and fees significantly...

we'll have weed education now in grade school...

thanks you stupid, stupid, silly people...

[NobleFree]

Fake news.

"Positive test results reflected in the NHTSA data do not indicate whether a driver was high at the time of the crash since traces of marijuana use from weeks earlier also can appear as a positive result."

[NobleFree]

criminalization, like Prohibition, is the wrong response to RECREATIONAL use. Some people will always use alcohol and other drugs. There are no utopian solutions. What you can do is provide disincentives (no welfare for drug users), enforce laws against any form of public intoxication, and work at persuading people.

Amen!

[Oatka]

Meaningless without the raw data.

Spot On. I was going to post something similar.

The Brady Bunch used to quote gun crime in percentages instead of numbers. I remember when they touted Clinton's AR ban decreasing crime by those guns by 33%. Turns out those crimes dropped from, IIRC, .66 to ,44 of one percent.

[fr_freak]

So it’s like we’re not allowed to talk about negatives of marijuana, because the 10th amendment or libertarian political philosophy takes priority over any bad news reports such as this.

You can talk about the negatives all you want. What is upsetting to some Freepers who actually want to live in a free country is that you forget that it isn't the government's job to protect people from their own choices. Tobacco has negatives. Alcohol has negatives. Cough medicine has negatives. Vicodin has (serious) negatives. Operating a motor vehicle at all has negatives, even when you're sober as a judge. If we're going to live in a free country, then "Pot is bad for you!" is not an acceptable argument for giving the government and its law enforcement agents sweeping powers to chuck your butt in jail and take all your stuff.

By the way, in all states where marijuana has been legalized, driving while stoned is still highly illegal.

[hawg-farmer - FR..October 1998]

Lying with STATISTICS, I do not smoke but I did in the 60S, long before most of the knee jerk reactions here, and there was not an EPIDEMIC of people dying from smoking Pot...there is an increasing incidence of it being found in the blood of the dead drivers, citation required..

[afraidfortherepublic]

You are funny! I don’t think hemoglobin slows response time, or causes hallucinations.

[Keyhopper]

Itsy amazing you got them off the couch.
Must’ve been a taco bell run