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To: RCW2001
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.

20 posted on 03/20/2002 4:11:16 PM PST by LadyDoc
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To: LadyDoc
Do you have any citations for your theories? In the past you haven't!
26 posted on 03/21/2002 5:32:41 AM PST by a history buff
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To: LadyDoc
But pot smokers don't just smoke one joint. They smoke several a week, or more commonly, several each day.

Don't drinkers also take more than one beer a week? Sometimes more than one drink a day?

Of course, driving while impaired for any reason is a problem. Driving with a migrane is a problem too.

28 posted on 03/21/2002 5:37:37 AM PST by Doctor Stochastic
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To: LadyDoc
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.

Says who? And, so what?

32 posted on 03/21/2002 10:22:22 AM PST by JediGirl
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To: LadyDoc
I can't believe that a doctor, with a background in scientific method, would make a statement along the lines of "more commonly, [pot smokers] smoke several [joints] each day." You are well aware that anyone who does so falls into the category of a "chronic" pot smoker (NPI).

There is absolutely no statistical evidence to back up your assertion, and, based on your own comments about the persistent effects of marijuana, anyone who did so would be high pretty much all the time. While this may be "common" among small groups on some college campuses, it is hardly "common" among the general population. You should be a little more careful with your assertions.

34 posted on 03/21/2002 10:28:19 AM PST by lugsoul
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