Pot smokers, drug users.

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#251
I dunno what that dude was doing, when I blaze and drive I usually have to make a concerted effort to not drive like a granny.
 
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MercyPercy said:
I dunno what that dude was doing, when I blaze and drive I usually have to make a concerted effort to not drive like a granny.
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You should not drive while high. All jokes aside, impairment is impairment. Dont kill someone because you THINK your driving is not altered.
 
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#253
#253
That dude in the link above got screwed. He was driving at a safe speed and in his lane. Random dude walked out into traffic and was at fault.
 
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From the link:

Investigators said the driver hit and killed a pedestrian around 5:50 p.m. on East Mill Plain Boulevard and Andresen Road.

Police say the victim, a male in his 50's, was believed to be walking back from Safeway and stepped out into the middle of traffic.

The driver, Scotty Rowles, was driving westbound on East Mill Plain Boulevard and could not stop his car in time, according to police.

Detectives says Rowles cooperated with the investigation, but after interviewing him they determined there was enough evidence to arrest him on suspicion of driving under the influence of marijuana.

Police believe this is the first deadly crash involving the drug since it became legal in the state of Washington.

Police say the victim was close to two different lit and controlled intersections, but chose to step out into the middle of traffic, which would clearly put him at fault.

However, because Rowles was believed to be under the influence of marijuana, Washington State law says he is technically at fault, according to police.

So even though it wasn't the drivers fault and was clearly the fault of the guy that got killed, it was still the drivers fault. Only in America.
 
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tim said:
You should not drive while high. All jokes aside, impairment is impairment. Dont kill someone because you THINK your driving is not altered.
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Roadtrips are boring, but if you ride with me, you have to eat the blunt if the fuzz pulls us over!
 
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#261
Thought I would revive this thread with this little video that was posted this week. Says it is a parody but it is a pretty solid political commentary. Watch out for language, lots of f-bombs.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Znpt_Umixcs&feature=player_embedded#![/youtube]
 
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JDogInDaHouse said:
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That's right!!!! Think about it potheads... it's your right to get high. After all, it's your body and you're not hurting anyone else. Just look what marijuana has done for Mexico.

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milohimself said:
Yeah, that's when that stuff kicks in. I've only been truly messy once or twice from smoking.

Point is, it's a lot harder to get shiz-faced off pot than off booze.
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You're kidding right? One bowl of the kill and most people are down for the count. The problem with marijuana is, atleast in my experience, they's no easy means to measure "THC content" or whatever and relate its effects to an individual based on say body weight or something. I could drink a beer in 10-15 min and barely notice a thing. A smaller person could drink a beer in the same timeframe and be more buzzed. No one would be ripped from a beer. However, some people could smoke a bowl of a certain type of weed and be fine, whereas I (just an example) get a single hit off of it and am done for. How do you quantify and measure its effects?
 
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#268
I could post pictures of people mashed into hamburger meat from alcohol related car crashes, but Im not an idiot trying to shock people.
 
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JDogInDaHouse said:
I could post pictures of people mashed into hamburger meat from alcohol related car crashes, but Im not an idiot trying to shock people.
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Alcohol is clearly the more dangerous substance at least in comparison to weed. Weed should be legal. If you remove the actual smoke from the equation and eat weed brownies, can anyone even say it's harmful at all?
 
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VolFan4Life87 said:
You're kidding right? One bowl of the kill and most people are down for the count. The problem with marijuana is, atleast in my experience, they's no easy means to measure "THC content" or whatever and relate its effects to an individual based on say body weight or something. I could drink a beer in 10-15 min and barely notice a thing. A smaller person could drink a beer in the same timeframe and be more buzzed. No one would be ripped from a beer. However, some people could smoke a bowl of a certain type of weed and be fine, whereas I (just an example) get a single hit off of it and am done for. How do you quantify and measure its effects?
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Dude, give me a break. The pot impared driving argument simply does not hold water.
Recent survey data released by the National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) indicates 25.8 million people have acknowledged using marijuana in the past year, of which 15.2 million have acknowledged using marijuana in the past month. These figures have remained pretty much the same throughout this decade since the NSDUH improved their survey techniques in 2002 and realized that there were actually about 25% more marijuana users than they had been previously estimating.
These figures, though, only represent the minimum estimates of the number of marijuana users. The Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) has acknowledged that it is reasonable to inflate such estimates by one-third to account for under-reporting. While they don’t like to admit it, they understand that not everybody is forthcoming (that is, honest) when asked by a survey to report on illegal drug use. An ONDCP publication notes that while researchers disagree on the subject of under-reporting on drug use surveys, survey-based estimates of tobacco use, for example, only reveal about 75% of the actual tobacco using population. This brings us to one conclusion, all these pot smokers...drive everyday already! If it was dangerous it would be obvious.
 
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JDogInDaHouse said:
Dude, give me a break. The pot impared driving argument simply does not hold water.
Recent survey data released by the National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) indicates 25.8 million people have acknowledged using marijuana in the past year, of which 15.2 million have acknowledged using marijuana in the past month. These figures have remained pretty much the same throughout this decade since the NSDUH improved their survey techniques in 2002 and realized that there were actually about 25% more marijuana users than they had been previously estimating.
These figures, though, only represent the minimum estimates of the number of marijuana users. The Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) has acknowledged that it is reasonable to inflate such estimates by one-third to account for under-reporting. While they don’t like to admit it, they understand that not everybody is forthcoming (that is, honest) when asked by a survey to report on illegal drug use. An ONDCP publication notes that while researchers disagree on the subject of under-reporting on drug use surveys, survey-based estimates of tobacco use, for example, only reveal about 75% of the actual tobacco using population. This brings us to one conclusion, all these pot smokers...drive everyday already! If it was dangerous it would be obvious.
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Where in my post did I say anything about driving? Merely discussing the differences in marijuana's effects on the body versus alcohol. All I'm saying is its far more arbitrary and immeasurable than alcohols effects.
 
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