Alcohol Impairs Driving More Than Marijuana

New Scientist ^

[SamAdams76]

Hola amigos! Guess I'm gonna have to lay off the Bud and smoke more weed. Party on!

[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

Of course there are all those pesky "cannabis" related accidents in the drive thru of Wendy's..... lol

[Atlas Sneezed]

They could have saved the money and asked anyone who went to high school in the 1970s for this information.

[SeeRushToldU_So]

In the 70's pot used make me stop four hundred yards from a stop light and admire the colors.

Beer I might just drive through the light.

Thankfully I lived and quit doing that sorta stuff.

[Free the USA]

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[Liberal Classic]

I dunno. It's pretty easy to get "impaired" on either one.

[ThinkLikeWaterAndReeds]

And a .50 cal sniper rifle will kill you faster than a S&W 45, but not by much

[Vladiator]

Sooooo, how do I sign up to be a test subject?

[bpjam]

I can't wait to see this article posted on DOPESMOKERS.COM as 'proof' that there are no negative effects of smoking pot.

[Cicero]

These days, with a loaded subject like this, you can't believe what you hear. Scientists all have agendas, too. Five years from now, they'll run the tests again and it will come out the other way--because the research was sponsored by French vineyards. This one sounds like it was sponsored by dope smokers.

[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

There used to be a show on Tv called "Thirtysomething"... in one episode they tell the story of when a couple was dating and they got pulled over by a highway patrolman while they were high....

Patrolman: Do you know how fast you were driving?

Elliot: Uh, 65 miles per hour?

P: No

E: 70?

P: No

E: 80?

P: No, 15... you were going 15 miles per hour on the highway.... lol.....

[RCW2001]

LOL...ahhh yes. Thank you 'cruise control'...

[SeeRushToldU_So]

LOL...ahhh yes. Thank you 'cruise control'...

Cruise control is a drunks best friend!

[Principled]

Alcohol impairs driving more than marijuana

Can't be true. Alcohol is legal...pot isn't.

[kinghorse]

Hey brahs, Jim Anchow knows his bud(s). I think Bud should build a bud plantation in Belize or something. Hari hari.

[Sir Gawain]

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[Texaggie79]

I hated driving stoned. I thought every car behind me was an undercover cop.

[Jonathon Spectre]

We should still keep locking people up for possessing a naturally-occurring lifeform.

For the children, of course. Where are our government boot-licks?!

[LadyDoc]

The liver will metabolize one ounce of whiskey or one glass of wine in one hour. So if you drink a glass of wine with supper, by the time you drive home it's out of the system. And it takes two glasses of wine to be "legally drunk" (-0.1 blood alcohol level)

Marijuana has a long half life. One joint may not impair immediately afterward as much as one glass of wine. But pot smokers don't just smoke one joint. They smoke several a week, or more commonly, several each day.

But three joints a day will accumulate and lead to measurable cognitive changes. In other words, three joints a day would be like having a constant blood alcohol level of 0.1mg-- which a normal person could establish by drinking one or two shots of whiskey every hour all day and night. We have a name for such people: Alcoholics.

In other words, like many of the early "pot is harmless" arguments, such comparisons are meaningless.