Not sure if it's your age or not Dan, but we're pretty much EVERYWHERE...
Here's one site where you can view a wide variety of folks who are able to 'come out of the cannabis closet':
http://www.cannabisconsumers.org/gallery.php?gal_id=52
After you get a smile out of checking ME out, click the WHO ARE CC? link to the left.
Here's one site where you can view a wide variety of folks who are able to 'come out of the cannabis closet':
http://www.cannabisconsumers.org/gallery.php?gal_id=52
After you get a smile out of checking ME out, click the WHO ARE CC? link to the left.
Oh, I wouldn't be as 'blunt'
as Meanstreak, but I can speak with authority that driving with marijuana in your system is a completely different equation than driving with alcohol in your system. Here's why.
ALCOHOL IS NOT MARIJUANA. MARIJUANA IS NOT ALCOHOL.
They are too completely different substances.
The primary thing they have in common is that people use them both for relaxation and 'partying', for lack of a better term.
Other than that, there's little resemblance.
But due to that one common use, much of the public slots pot and alcohol in the same vein, thinking, "Driving with pot in your system is pretty much the same as driving with alcohol in your system". It's a very inappropriate analogy, but that doesn't stop politicians and drug prohibition supporters from flogging it for all they're worth.
There's been lots and lots of research on this topic and not one peer reviewed study demonstrates significant impairment for drivers who have recently used marijuana. In fact, most conclusions indicate that pot-influenced drivers simply slow down a bit and otherwise make any neccesary adjustments to continue driving safely.
ALCOHOL IS NOT MARIJUANA. MARIJUANA IS NOT ALCOHOL.
They are too completely different substances.
The primary thing they have in common is that people use them both for relaxation and 'partying', for lack of a better term.
Other than that, there's little resemblance.
But due to that one common use, much of the public slots pot and alcohol in the same vein, thinking, "Driving with pot in your system is pretty much the same as driving with alcohol in your system". It's a very inappropriate analogy, but that doesn't stop politicians and drug prohibition supporters from flogging it for all they're worth.
There's been lots and lots of research on this topic and not one peer reviewed study demonstrates significant impairment for drivers who have recently used marijuana. In fact, most conclusions indicate that pot-influenced drivers simply slow down a bit and otherwise make any neccesary adjustments to continue driving safely.
And to the question posed above, Meanstreak did state it well.
If someone wants to drive after using pot, OR ANY OTHER DRUG, there's nothing we can do to 'stop' them.
But more to the point, the vast majority of people who use pot, do not drive afterwards. So it's preposterous to say, "We must arrest, prosecute and imprison anyone who even has pot in their possession because some of them might drive and when they drive they might cause problems."
But anytime we pose the idea of allowing legal access to marijuana for adults, some drug warrior hack will utter the grim question, "What about all the stoned drivers???"
Note that I'm not refeering here to the person above who posed this question, but rather to those who use that question as a means to continue the insanity of marijuana prohibition laws.
If someone wants to drive after using pot, OR ANY OTHER DRUG, there's nothing we can do to 'stop' them.
But more to the point, the vast majority of people who use pot, do not drive afterwards. So it's preposterous to say, "We must arrest, prosecute and imprison anyone who even has pot in their possession because some of them might drive and when they drive they might cause problems."
But anytime we pose the idea of allowing legal access to marijuana for adults, some drug warrior hack will utter the grim question, "What about all the stoned drivers???"
Note that I'm not refeering here to the person above who posed this question, but rather to those who use that question as a means to continue the insanity of marijuana prohibition laws.
Wil,
when you come to a fork in the road, take it.
Inkeeper,
You look like a former Marine. I don't see anything wrong w/ consenting adults doing whatever they want as long as they keep it away from kids. I don't agree w/ a lot of things said on this board but will defend everyones right to say it!
Semper Fi,
Lt. Dan
when you come to a fork in the road, take it.
Inkeeper,
You look like a former Marine. I don't see anything wrong w/ consenting adults doing whatever they want as long as they keep it away from kids. I don't agree w/ a lot of things said on this board but will defend everyones right to say it!
Semper Fi,
Lt. Dan
