Legalized Weed Linked to Spike in Car Crashes

[beagle9]

Smoking pot and driving is no different than driving drunk. In both cases the driver is impaired. I have done both. Sober and Pot free for 38 years.

Congrats on getting sober.

 

[petro]

Is this where we get to hear small government conservatives argue for the nanny state?

I am far more concerned with the drunks, cell phone users, and idiots who just don't obey or know simple driving rules. The roads in my area are most dangerous during rush hour when hurried, road raged, stressed sober idiots turn our roads into fucking NASCAR everyday.

 

[Eric Arthur Blair]

People have been smoking weed and driving forever.

And crashing their cars.

 

[Taz]

Weird, uh?

Legalized marijuana linked to a sharp rise in car crashes

People have been smoking weed and driving forever.

People have been drinking and driving forever.
Anymore meaningless non-points you want to make?

Like the one you just made? Weed and liquor aren't even close to being equal as to impairment.

 

[Taz]

I notice that the DOPER aged youngsters can't even properly count change when I buy coffee at these little 'coffee kiosks' scattered throughout the USA and locally . [its funny] Also notice that there is lots of dope smoking going on in cars as I just observe drivers in cars with little smokeless pipes puffing away . I mostly ride a motorcycle and one day I expect / anticipate one of these DOPERS to modify my bike and me with a rear end collision .

It's also negatively impacting the job market and/or labor industries in this country as well. These kids would rather do drugs than work because they are to good for work now (their mom's told them so).

Hippies did that in the 60s then grew up to run wall street.

How many didn't make it huh ???? Try to be real here.

The only people that age asking for handouts on the streets are veterans. And alcoholics.
Please try again.

 

[Taz]

People have been smoking weed and driving forever.

And crashing their cars.

More straight people crash their cars than any category.

Please try again.

 

[anynameyouwish]

Weird, uh?

Legalized marijuana linked to a sharp rise in car crashes

well


then we better become a nanny state and have big government make laws against pot and alcohol.

 

[caddo kid]

I gave Satan some hash brownies and he didn't crash the sleigh

 

[petro]

People have been smoking weed and driving forever.

And crashing their cars.

More straight people crash their cars than any category.

Please try again.

To be fair, many of those are under the influence of an electronic device while driving.

 

[Eric Arthur Blair]

More straight people crash their cars than any category.

Please try again.

More unimpaired straight people are on the road than motorists under the influence of weed. Statistically they will be in more accidents but not due to driving while in a brain altered state.

Straight drivers have to share the roads with all sorts of less than competent drivers and that includes lovers of the weed.

"A review of 60 studies presented in 1995 at the International Conference on Alcohol, Drugs and Traffic Safety found that marijuana impairs all the cognitive abilities needed for safe driving, including tracking, motor coordination, visual function and divided attention."

Posting while impaired? Please try again.

 

[SassyIrishLass]

People have been smoking weed and driving forever.

And crashing their cars.

More straight people crash their cars than any category.

Please try again.

Probably because they far outnumber impaired drivers.

Dumbass

 

[debbiedowner]

People have been smoking weed and driving forever.

And crashing their cars.

Like the two head on collisions and hitting a tree all between age 18 and the time I joined the military at 19 when I was drunk. Have driven very fews times in my life while high on weed but never even came close to an incident.

 

[Polishprince]

The Legalization of Grass is being made to seem like a Fiscal panacea for states.

This, as this proves again, is a load of Shit.

Higher insurance premiums is another way people are going to pay for this. And most of the taxes collected on grass will be used for enforcement of the tax.

 

[Likkmee]

Weird, uh?

Legalized marijuana linked to a sharp rise in car crashes

People have been smoking weed and driving forever.

Yes, but the number of people walking around and driving around while loaded on grass has increased exponentially in areas where it is now legal.

Lets see the numbers. Here's some

"That nearly 1.6 percent growth rate put Denver's population at 716,492. ... But the city's average net increase of 921 people per month during that period pales in comparison with the 1,566-a-month growth rate in 2014-15, the high-water mark of the last decade.Apr 18, 2019"

 

[debbiedowner]

Weird, uh?

Legalized marijuana linked to a sharp rise in car crashes

well


then we better become a nanny state and have big government make laws against pot and alcohol.

Love to see the govt ban alcohol.

 

[debbiedowner]

Gee who woulda guessed

That's because the modern dope smoker is now mostly a young liberal inexperienced weenie. They can't handle the stuff. Back in the day, we used to smoke stuff that would kill a buzzard and go right on with our business like it was nothing, and we drove far bigger cars with twice the horsepower and without 100 safety devices to protect you.

While there are many young people smoking, eating, etc I see more over 60 in the dispensaries.

 

[Taz]

More straight people crash their cars than any category.

Please try again.

More unimpaired straight people are on the road than motorists under the influence of weed. Statistically they will be in more accidents but not due to driving while in a brain altered state.

Straight drivers have to share the roads with all sorts of less than competent drivers and that includes lovers of the weed.

"A review of 60 studies presented in 1995 at the International Conference on Alcohol, Drugs and Traffic Safety found that marijuana impairs all the cognitive abilities needed for safe driving, including tracking, motor coordination, visual function and divided attention."

Posting while impaired? Please try again.

To most people, weed isn't an impairment, it's an enhancement!

 

[SassyIrishLass]

Weird, uh?

Legalized marijuana linked to a sharp rise in car crashes

well


then we better become a nanny state and have big government make laws against pot and alcohol.

Love to see the govt ban alcohol.

It was tried...and failed miserably

 

[Crepitus]

Weird, uh?

Legalized marijuana linked to a sharp rise in car crashes

And?

 

[petro]

Regardless of the OP.
A driver under the influence of any substance is covered under existing DUI laws.
Unless the OP is arguing for more government regulation of human behavior. Like the widely successful hands free device laws passed in many states that drivers already ignore.