Posted on 02/15/2014 11:35:27 PM PST by South40
DDuring each shift at her drive-through window, once an hour, Cordelia Cordova sees people rolling joints in their cars. Some blow smoke in her face and smile.
Cordova, who lost a 23-year-old niece and her 1-month-old son to a driver who admitted he smoked pot that day, never smiles back. She thinks legal marijuana in Colorado, where she works, is making the problem of drugged driving worse — and now new research supports her claim.
"Nobody hides it anymore when driving," Cordova said. "They think it's a joke because it’s legal. Nobody will take this seriously until somebody loses another loved one."
(Excerpt) Read more at nbcnews.com ...
Too bad pot heads can’t have dedicated highways just for them. People on drugs should leave normal people alone. They can do what they want with their own marginal lives, but others value life more.
“It doesn’t matter what state you reside....you’ve got a threat going on twenty-four hours a day...three-hundred-and-sixty-five days a year.”
Having spent the last 30 plus years in a certain aspect of health care, I can attest that most of driving age Americans are whacked out of their skulls the better part of the day on US Government Certified, FDA approved and DEA sanctioned prescription drugs. They’ve got a drug card and a God given right to take drugs and they’re are not going to be outdone by anyone else.
Drive around the Jersey Shore area any time from 11pm to 4am and it’s a crap shoot. This is more anti-drug bs. Just keep it illegal and keep making criminals rich.
Hang in here with me. This is on the subject. In Florida we had mandatory auto inspections for about ten years. The inspectors had all attended a course on how to be rude and take the maximum amount of time. Then, one day, the governor’s wife took their car for an inspection. She got the standard treatment. Two weeks later there were no more inspections.
In Salem the witch trials were making a serious dent in the female population. Then, the governor’s wife was accused of witchcraft. No more witch trials. So until somebody in the governor’s family or in some other powerful politician’s family is killed by a stoned driver, the rest of the populace will have to deal with the day to day tragedy of this situation.
It’s amazing how people with power are separated from the rest of us and can therefore ignore our plight. Back when I owned GM vehicles going to the dealership was a humiliating and painful experience. They were rude, took no account of your time and would lie to your face. (I actually had to go get a newspaper article to prove to the service writer my car had been recalled and then it took several more visits and me paying a couple of hundred to get the problem fixed.) The problem was the top GM brass never dealt with a dealer or kept a car long enough for the problems to manifest.
Innocents killed? Collateral damage. The criminals/socialists/totalitarians/banksters are making money from it. The lawyers have more cases for the damage caused. A legislative and agency job/regulation creator. Socialization of risk insurers get to up rate from any carnage (even on the non-smokers). Best of all dopes are euphoric from their substance of choice and are less likely to use their rational faculties to examine the manipulations and plunder of their pushers.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GN6eTXA0VlI
I thought CO was the first state. Which states are they referring to?
Colorado DOT (Department of Transportation)
Traffic Safety - Colorado DUI Laws Include Marijuana Impaired Driving.
January 3, 2014
(excerpt)...
Similar to alcohol, there is an established impairment level in Colorado of five nanograms of active tetrahydrocannabinol (THC)—the active psychoactive component of marijuana—per milliliter of whole blood. Driving while impaired by any substance is illegal and unsafe.
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“Marijuana affects reaction time, short-term memory, hand-eye coordination, concentration and perception of time and distance. And just like alcohol, people driving while impaired by marijuana can receive a DUI.”
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In addition to driving impaired, it is also illegal to consume or display marijuana on any public roadway, to have marijuana in the passenger area of a vehicle in an open container, container with a broken seal, or if there is evidence marijuana has been consumed.
In short, that's why many prescription drugs have specific warnings against operating machinery.
Nope.
There is no forensic test for marijuana intoxication. In a case where a subject failed a field sobriety test, the judge threw out the case because there is no laboratory test to confirm, thus legalizing driving while stoned in that state.
Coming to a state near you.
Car and Driver has a good article on this very topic for the March issue. The quick answer is, not really. Check the article for more details. They really do cover it from all sides, IMHO.
"It's those pesky facts again".
Can you tell me which states the author was referring to? I'm quite sure CO is the first state to legalize, so the facts you are referring to may be made up 'facts'.
As coincidence…FYI
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-02-15/drugging-america-summarized-19-mind-altering-facts#comments
Legalized theft.
Legalized corruption.
Legalized drugs.
It all fits.
(from zh poster “No Debt” in above link)
I agree totally with your post 9. The problem is that our overload of dumb s**ts know how to vote and they’ll put in office—and keep in office—the politicians who will do just what they want them to do.
This observation, of course, applies to just about anything currently on the American political scene.
I think it’s a hopeless situation.
Because a head-in-rectum public allowed laws to be passed to make this stuff “legal” the same public is reluctant to admit that their stupidity led to accidents.
It was predictable! Anybody with a functioning brain could have known.
President Obama proved right once again, no more dangerous than alcohol.
So let’s add another threat.
Don’t let politics overcome your junk-science detector.
There is nothing in this article to suggest that the pot is actually causing an increase in accidents (making the headline unsupported).
Let’s be calm and realize that one can look at fatality rates for states where pot was made legal, and compare the trends with states that keep it illegal.
Pointing out that more people who die are found to have pot in their bloodstream is one thing, but suggesting that it is causing them do die is another. It’s like suggesting that because an increased percentage of blacks are among the fatalities means that blacks are dangerous drivers.
Of course, I accept the hypothesis that pot impairs ability to some degree. it’s just that the facts reported in this article don’t support the hypothesis.
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