[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.

[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?

[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.

[Principled]

Alcohol impairs driving more than marijuana

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

[Sir Gawain]

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[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.

[rdww]

Anyone who was of a certain age in the '70's could tell you they'd rather have had a stoner behind the wheel than a drinker.

[MadRobotArtist]

I see Operation "Duh" is in effect. Let's teach people that it's okay to get high, and better for you than booze. Of course, if you drink and get high, you're just another troglodyte that needs to be kept at home so that way you don't endanger the rest of society. God I hate this dumbing down crapola we're being fed. Worse yet, kids get this idea faster than adults.

[Kermit]

This is not news, it's been known for years. I say ban alcohol, the worst and most damaging drug out there. How can you be for drunk driving? You must ban alcohol.

[mewzilla]

Gee, I have a novel idea. How about we just don't drive impaired? Period.

[Joe Hadenuf]

Alcohol Impairs Driving More Than Marijuana

Well DUH!

[Snuffington]

the complex way alcohol and cannabis combine to affect driving behaviour suggests that someone who has taken both may drive less recklessly than a person who is simply drunk.

Hurray! Instead of sobering up before driving, now I can simply take a few bong hits and safely drive home.

[NC_Libertarian]

This isn't new news. As has been mentioned on FR before there were two indpendant studies done by both the U.S. and the U.K. that found that drivers under the influence of canabis were safer then regular drivers - as they were more carefull and less agressive.

Advocates of zero tolerance say there should be penalties for drivers caught with any amount of recently smoked cannabis in their body. The new research suggests that would only be credible if governments also adopted zero tolerance on drink driving.

Sounds good to me.

[GSWarrior]

I think the author needs to find a new source for his weed.