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 its legal. Nobody will take this seriously until somebody loses another loved one."
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I hold a libertarian view when it comes to pot use. It's not for me but if someone else wants to smoke it, that's their business. However, when they do so and drive putting innocents at risk (myself and my family included) that's when I have a problem with it.
I have seen FReepers defend smoking cigarettes in public buildings. And they say that if it bothers anyone they needn't go in those buildings. And for the most part, I don't. But we all pay to use the roadways, so I'll be damned if I am going to not use them because drugged up stoners want to drive stoned.
Oh, I can appreciate the sarcasm. I’ve instigated meetings like that too.
The propaganda of “Safety is Job Number One!” stuff really grinds me. Safety is about job #3, I’d say. Somewhere after “making a profit” (#1) and “keeping the customer happy” (#2) and “being able to go home at night,” which is #4.
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