Paul was right on the mark when discussing drunk vs. stoned driving. My own personal experience, having done both, is that when drunk the drive is reckless, high speed and likely prone to involve some kind of 'Road Rage' incident. When stoned the only problem I've seen is the possibility of getting a ticket for going too slow.
I've also yet to witness any violence among those who are smoking but I've seen plenty between drunk people.
Pot is just a Red Herring and a means of expansion of Gov’t control and capture by Agencies of enormous resources.
If being stoned makes you drive slower wouldn't your reflexes also be slower?
B.S. Impaired is impaired, no matter what you're impaired on.
Driving too slow causes more accidents than anything else, because it causes everyone to take chances passing the idiot driving 20 miles an hour in a 60, whether they are sober or drunk.
Then there are the pot heads that day dream through red lights and stop signs, run over children playing in the streets, rear enders because their reactions are too slow.
Pot is every bit as bad as booze.
Pot is also just as bad as smoking, it contains all the same harmful toxins as tobacco except nicotine.
Pot smoking is VERY harmfull to the children with still developing minds that smoke it, which is when most people are introduced to pot, around 12-13 years old.
Pot smokers who think legalized pot would be wonderful, and eliminate their legal problems are terribly mistaken. This shows what pot smoking does to the mind. Pot smokers can't think rationally.
Growing pt would still be illegal. Selling pot would still be illegal. Smuggling pot would still be illegal.
Pot would simply become government controlled, like booze. All smuggling, growing(distilling) selling without a license (and proper taxation) would still be illegal.
All legalizing pot would accomplish is government control over it's quality, and taxation.
Legalizing pot will just turn even more kids into useless, unproductive, lazy dopes, a condition that seems to last throughout a pot heads lifetime. (along with their t-shits with MJ leaves printed on them)
That's the problem with smoking pot. You don't want to leave the basement and see what goes on in the world.
My own personal experience, having done both, is that when drunk the drive is reckless, high speed and likely prone to involve some kind of ‘Road Rage’ incident. When stoned the only problem I’ve seen is the possibility of getting a ticket for going too slow.***
You tend to get lost a lot more when you are stoned too. I think it should still be like a DUI, btw, but I see your point that Alcohol is definately a much more harmful and addictive drug than pot, for the most part. There are those people out there who will drink and smoke irresponsibly, but that does not speak for everyone else.