Marijuana Users Are Safer Drivers Than Non-Marijuana Users, New Study Shows
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« on: April 14, 2012, 06:50:28 AM »

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Yes, there is a million (ok, just a dozen or so) things wrong with this study..I just did it to post this picture
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« Reply #1 on: April 14, 2012, 07:42:32 AM »

I know at least one person who'll be happy to hear this.
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« Reply #2 on: April 14, 2012, 07:52:48 AM »

Wow tell us something we don't know.

This will be devastating to all the morons who insisted that if we legalized marijuana auto accidents would skyrocket because people who drive while stoned "just don't care".
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« Reply #3 on: April 14, 2012, 09:13:49 AM »

one dangerous thing SWIM noticed about driving stoned is 'cognitive narrowing' - he'd be so focused on staying in the lane that he'd forget to look for stop signs, for instance.
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« Reply #4 on: April 14, 2012, 10:15:30 AM »

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« Reply #5 on: April 14, 2012, 10:42:15 AM »


This is my reaction to you posting this.
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« Reply #6 on: April 14, 2012, 12:44:37 PM »

The statistical illiteracy of some people . . .
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« Reply #7 on: April 15, 2012, 06:08:29 AM »

All the studies in the past have shown that marijuana either tends to leave driving competence unchanged or result in a slight improvement, iirc.
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« Reply #8 on: April 17, 2012, 12:51:45 AM »

Speaking of this debate, am I the only one who notices that the staunch opponents of legalizing MJ are always people who:

-have never tried it
-still believe everything they heard in DARE class (basically reefer madness 2.0)

I still have yet to hear convincing or serious arguments against this. The reason is because it's logically impossible to be against legalizing MJ and not be in favor of re-instituting prohibition of alcohol.
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« Reply #9 on: April 17, 2012, 01:10:15 AM »

Hey maybe I should revive my idea of going to church high.
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« Reply #10 on: April 17, 2012, 01:14:33 AM »

Maybe they know they shouldn't text if they're driving while stoned. Sober and texting is definitely worse than stoned and not texting.
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« Reply #11 on: April 17, 2012, 02:15:32 AM »

Maybe they know they shouldn't text if they're driving while stoned. Sober and texting is definitely worse than stoned and not texting.

Well of course, but it's also probably safer to be driving with a 0.15 BAC than a zero one while texting.
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« Reply #12 on: April 18, 2012, 06:10:34 PM »


The more you talk about it, the less interesting it becomes.
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« Reply #13 on: April 18, 2012, 06:16:47 PM »

Here's a chart to show you some of the major drugs, Cannabis is in the lower quadrant.



Statistically, alcohol and tobacco is more damaging than marijuana.
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« Reply #14 on: April 19, 2012, 12:06:24 AM »

one dangerous thing SWIM noticed about driving stoned is 'cognitive narrowing' - he'd be so focused on staying in the lane that he'd forget to look for stop signs, for instance.

SWIM also noticed this phenomena as he drove around in his hometown. 99% of the time he'd drive flawlessly although he'd be more cautious than usual but occasionally he'd make a ridiculous mistake that clearly indicated he was under the influence.
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« Reply #15 on: April 19, 2012, 04:08:35 PM »

I'm more likely to go the speed limit when I'm stoned, so this is not surprising.
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« Reply #16 on: April 19, 2012, 05:20:05 PM »

Keep pot illegal, once it becomes legal the government will just stamp their taxes on it. It's actually one of the last free American enterprises.

It really pisses me off that people are hypocritical about pot, they oppose it but then go get drunk at a bar. Too bad the news probably won't make a big deal out of this.
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« Reply #17 on: April 19, 2012, 05:30:26 PM »

Keep pot illegal, once it becomes legal the government will just stamp their taxes on it. It's actually one of the last free American enterprises.

It really pisses me off that people are hypocritical about pot, they oppose it but then go get drunk at a bar. Too bad the news probably won't make a big deal out of this.

...We should keep pot illegal because the possibility of the government taxing something is worse than jail?

Wow.
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« Reply #18 on: April 19, 2012, 05:36:31 PM »

Keep pot illegal, once it becomes legal the government will just stamp their taxes on it. It's actually one of the last free American enterprises.

It really pisses me off that people are hypocritical about pot, they oppose it but then go get drunk at a bar. Too bad the news probably won't make a big deal out of this.

...We should keep pot illegal because the possibility of the government taxing something is worse than jail?

Wow.

I think the effect of the statement is that it should be kept illegal, but the laws shouldn't be enforced.  Which is something I have a degree of sympathy to for the reason he pointed out.
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« Reply #19 on: April 19, 2012, 05:52:33 PM »

Keep pot illegal, once it becomes legal the government will just stamp their taxes on it. It's actually one of the last free American enterprises.

It really pisses me off that people are hypocritical about pot, they oppose it but then go get drunk at a bar. Too bad the news probably won't make a big deal out of this.

...We should keep pot illegal because the possibility of the government taxing something is worse than jail?

Wow.

I think the effect of the statement is that it should be kept illegal, but the laws shouldn't be enforced.  Which is something I have a degree of sympathy to for the reason he pointed out.

I... guess that makes sense, if you're against a pot tax.  Still, I don't see how the government would be able to legalize something and keep it "illegal" at the same time.
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« Reply #20 on: April 19, 2012, 06:10:23 PM »

Keep pot illegal, once it becomes legal the government will just stamp their taxes on it. It's actually one of the last free American enterprises.

It really pisses me off that people are hypocritical about pot, they oppose it but then go get drunk at a bar. Too bad the news probably won't make a big deal out of this.

...We should keep pot illegal because the possibility of the government taxing something is worse than jail?

Wow.

I think the effect of the statement is that it should be kept illegal, but the laws shouldn't be enforced.  Which is something I have a degree of sympathy to for the reason he pointed out.

I... guess that makes sense, if you're against a pot tax.  Still, I don't see how the government would be able to legalize something and keep it "illegal" at the same time.

You've never seen underage drinking on a college campus then Tongue
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« Reply #21 on: April 19, 2012, 10:53:50 PM »

Make pot legal, the government is in debt up to their ears.  That might ease away the people around university campuses nationwide on 4/20 and cops can focus on better things like thief and burglary.
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« Reply #22 on: April 19, 2012, 11:20:09 PM »

Speaking of this debate, am I the only one who notices that the staunch opponents of legalizing MJ are always people who:

-have never tried it
-still believe everything they heard in DARE class (basically reefer madness 2.0)

I still have yet to hear convincing or serious arguments against this. The reason is because it's logically impossible to be against legalizing MJ and not be in favor of re-instituting prohibition of alcohol.
You forgot one(but they are a minority, 1-3% of those opposing legalization)
- people who quit marijuana for a very lucrative career
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« Reply #23 on: April 20, 2012, 12:17:43 AM »

You forgot one(but they are a minority, 1-3% of those opposing legalization)
- people who quit marijuana for a very lucrative career

Those people still have no valid reason for opposing it.
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« Reply #24 on: April 20, 2012, 12:24:13 AM »

Here's a chart to show you some of the major drugs, Cannabis is in the lower quadrant.



Statistically, alcohol and tobacco is more damaging than marijuana.

Never heard of this drug khat before, but it's to the lower left of pot, and it's banned in the US, too. I guess we wanted to expand the drug war for some reason.
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