sure is a good thing we legalized marijuana.....made it a leading cause of fatal car accidents

[Fivehade]

cause you know, alcohol is OK, so we might as well let people take pot all the want. they wont do nothing wrong because of it

https://www.washingtonpost.com/loca...139d6a-66a9-11e5-9223-70cb36460919_story.html

 

[StoneColdKillerDawg]

lol

 

[BaronDawg]

cause you know, alcohol is OK, so we might as well let people take pot all the want. they wont do nothing wrong because of it

https://www.washingtonpost.com/loca...139d6a-66a9-11e5-9223-70cb36460919_story.html

The worst part about smoking weed and driving is waiting for those #@%&! stop signs to go from red to green.

 

[dieharddawg62]

Alcohol kills more people than all other drugs combined. I guess what we need to do is make alcohol illegal again. That should cut down on the abuse...right?


Be honest, would you rather have people drive around in cars smoking pot or knee walking drunk?

Logically, there is no good reason for alcohol to be legal and the others not. Whatever argument you use to not can also be applied to any drug. I could make an argument that alcohol is much worse than some illegal drugs.

 

[HeulenHund2]

Just before the first dispensaries opened for medical weed in Colorado there were 743 highway deaths for 2002 in that state. The rate has continually declined since. Now that it is fully legal, Colorado averages around 465 highway deaths per year. That's around a 38% decrease. Imagine how many lives could be saved if we legalized stiff chronic in all 57 ( that's correct) states.

 

[Fivehade]

Alcohol kills more people than all other drugs combined. I guess what we need to do is make alcohol illegal again. That should cut down on the abuse...right?


Be honest, would you rather have people drive around in cars smoking pot or knee walking drunk?

Logically, there is no good reason for alcohol to be legal and the others not. Whatever argument you use to not can also be applied to any drug. I could make an argument that alcohol is much worse than some illegal drugs.

I don't think you're using logic at all....appears that you're advocating making a bad situation worse, just because alcohol is bad....nice stoner view.....but, .... According to the study, drugs were found in the systems of almost 40 percent of fatally injured drivers who were tested for them. That rivals the number of drivers who died with alcohol in their system.


The number of dead drivers who tested positive for drugs has increased from 29 percent in 2005 to 39.9 percent in 2013, the report said, citing federal crash data.

 

[HeulenHund2]

I don't think you're using logic at all....appears that you're advocating making a bad situation worse, just because alcohol is bad....nice stoner view.....but, .... According to the study, drugs were found in the systems of almost 40 percent of fatally injured drivers who were tested for them. That rivals the number of drivers who died with alcohol in their system.


The number of dead drivers who tested positive for drugs has increased from 29 percent in 2005 to 39.9 percent in 2013, the report said, citing federal crash data.

Pot is pot, it's not PCP or meth. Smoking ( without drinking) makes most drivers slow down, not drive wilder. The only mention of a driver having smoked pot before a fatal wreck in that article stated pot AND alcohol. It was the alcohol that contributed to the fatality in all likelihood. I don't doubt pot causes low speed fender benders though, I'm certain it does.

 

[Fivehade]

Pot is pot, it's not PCP or meth. Smoking ( without drinking) makes most drivers slow down, not drive wilder. The only mention of a driver having smoked pot before a fatal wreck in that article stated pot AND alcohol. It was the alcohol that contributed to the fatality in all likelihood. I don't doubt pot causes low speed fender benders though, I'm certain it does.

I don't think wild driving is required to be deadly....per the study, it's a leading cause of traffic fatalities . A drugged and slowed reaction driver is a pretty dangerous thing

 

[StoneColdKillerDawg]

I don't think wild driving is required to be deadly....per the study, it's a leading cause of traffic fatalities . A drugged and slowed reaction driver is a pretty dangerous thing

This is just plain dumb. Let's ban anything and everything that could possibly lead to death or injury. F'ing ridiculous! We should just bubble wrap every person and be done with it - the pussification of America at its finest. So much for the land of the free...

 

[dieharddawg62]

You never answered the question.

Would you rather have people driving while intoxicated on alcohol or pot?

 

[atlanta cock#]

How about neither? Is there any doubt if pot were legal and alcohol wasn't, the exact same arguments would be made? Why introduce yet another drug into the accepted culture? What's the point? Eventually, heroine and LSD will be legalized under the same theory that alcohol is worse. Is that the standard?

 

[StoneColdKillerDawg]

You never answered the question.

Would you rather have people driving while intoxicated on alcohol or pot?

If we bubble wrap all the pussies in our country, it wouldn't matter what or how much anyone

How about neither? Is there any doubt if pot were legal and alcohol wasn't, the exact same arguments would be made? Why introduce yet another drug into the accepted culture? What's the point? Eventually, heroine and LSD will be legalized under the same theory that alcohol is worse. Is that the standard?

We should legalize it all. What does it say about our nation when we send the message that citizens are incapable of making personal life choices, thereby requiring over-regulation and excessive government meddling? Prostitution, drugs - legalize all of it.

 

[HeulenHund2]

I don't think wild driving is required to be deadly....per the study, it's a leading cause of traffic fatalities . A drugged and slowed reaction driver is a pretty dangerous thing

I don't buy the claim pot causes a large number of fatalities. It's reefer madness all over again.
I was around pot culture and alcohol culture from 14 into my mid-20s. I never saw a fatality of any sort due to pot, I did see many due to alcohol consumption though.
There is no freaking way those claims are correct...ZERO chance.

 

[HeulenHund2]

How about neither? Is there any doubt if pot were legal and alcohol wasn't, the exact same arguments would be made? Why introduce yet another drug into the accepted culture? What's the point? Eventually, heroine and LSD will be legalized under the same theory that alcohol is worse. Is that the standard?

It might make sense to handle drugs as a medical problem, at least below the commercial dealer level. There's no reasonable way to look at The Netherlands and conclude our approach works better.

 

[Fivehade]

It might make sense to handle drugs as a medical problem, at least below the commercial dealer level. There's no reasonable way to look at The Netherlands and conclude our approach works better.

They also condone human trafficking in Holland as well as letting all the junkies do whatever they want.

Fwiw, I've spent more time in the Netherlands than you would believe. I wouldn't take their moral approach, or any approach they have at all, over the prevailing ones in the USA , no matter how highly a bunch of stoners think of them as a country.

They're ok, in their place...but that's about it