Posted on 04/20/2014 3:04:00 PM PDT by mgist
Edited on 04/20/2014 3:59:32 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
Thank you!
I did read that there were some arrests at this event. My guess is someone lit up a Marlboro and the SWAT team jumped into action.
BTW, I love how the media is writing this story up as some cutesy-pie "happening". One blurb about a mother toking a joint while holding her 3 year old.
Wouldn't EVER see such supportive writing if it were a mother smoking a cigarette around her kid.
I’ve seen no evidence that genetically modified (i.e. DNA manipulation using modern lab methods) pot has ever been on the market. Rumors that Monsanto may have experimented. Actual product on the market is the result of old-fashioned selective breeding and a few random chemicals thrown at the plant hoping something changes for the better.
Veto!, surely there are some number of marijuana-influenced drivers on the road right now, and have been for decades, even before the first retail pot stores open (of course, the medical MJ outlets have been open for some time).
Do you think we will ever see a marijuana festival in eastern WA? Public consumption still won't be legal and they tend to enforce that kind of law over here.
Public consumption isnt legal in commierado but the polizei and DAs ust ignore the rules when it suits them. As long as companies still drug test, this helps me find a graphics job as it eliminates some of the competition.
Drunk drivers run red lights; stoned drivers wait for green lights to turn red...
“You clearly have to be on the slippery slope to legalized meth and heroin “
Same thing was said of alcohol. Do you desire to ban alcohol? How about “trans fats”, sugars, or anything else someone in government says you should not eat or possess? We’ve seen Moosechelle already say we need to ban things. Hell, New York City banned 32oz drinks!
The real slippery slope has been that once the government finds it can get away with banning things then it bans everything.
“How do you measure Weed content in a driver?”
How did we measure alcohol content prior to breathalyzers? Why even bother when there are other means to get bad drivers off the road? Who cares why a driver is unable to drive properly, just get the driver off the road. Hell, cell phones are as bad as any drunk or pothead.
Breathalyzers are a lazy means of going after drunks. How about we simply enforce the law that says if you can’t drive properly you simply don’t get to drive at all?? Every single day, every day, I see someone lose control and go off into the shoulder of the road. Every...single...day. Cell phones. Why are you not calling out for the banning of cell phones? There is no chemical test for bad driving due to cell phone use and it is silly to even suggest there should be, so why call out chemical tests for pot or anything else that makes for a bad driver?
We need to hank the licenses of ALL bad drivers, regardless of the reason they drive poorly. There is absolutely no reason for a person to drive off the edge of the road, or to slam into a car ahead of them, or change lanes into someone. None. Yank that license as the idiot has proven they cannot control their vehicle in a safe manner.
The same idiots that cannot control their vehicles are some of the same ones calling for banning pot and they drive just as dangerously as anyone that is stoned.
I love tossing Rush into these topics. He said something as: “Why does everyone have to go to college or succeed in any way. We need our street sweepers and garbage men. We do. Some will simply not achieve a higher standard in life and for that they can take out the garbage.”
“Either these bums are unemployed or are on gubmint dole.”
Actually, many are working class professionals. I can name more than a dozen that are airline pilots, write safety critical software, politicians, cops (LOTS of cops!), bus drivers, etc. It is amazing how many people smoke pot on occasion.
The stereotype that pot smokers are all unemployed pothead losers is just hollywierd hype.
Those that smoke pot are no different than those that drink alcohol. Same crowd, really.
You are rationalizing. Getting drunk/high impairs your ability to drive. Systemic impaired driving puts everyone at risk.
The Libertarian concept of “only stop them after they kill someone” is too simplistic.
Gallagher did a routine on stoned drives, they'll stick out their head out of the window and shout "I'M CHANGING LANES!"
“The Libertarian concept of “only stop them after they kill someone” is too simplistic.”
I certainly wasn’t calling for that, now was I? I said there are ways to get bad drivers off the road and that means long before they crash into someone. Unlike Libertarians, I understand that at some point risk is a violation of rights and subject to corrective action.
Now the big scare (grab) is regarding THIRD hand smoke.
One activity is legal, the other a felony where I am.
I’d rather avoid the criminals
He's right of course.
Garbage men are ESSENTIAL. Isn't it odd that no women have decided to be garbage collectors? Women wanted men's jobs, didn't they?
LOL. Women did want men's jobs but NOT the dirty, dangerous or away-from-home jobs. Thus there are few, if any, women miners, garbage collectors or Merchant Marine women.
Hmmmm, I smell HYPOCRISY there, don't you? Lol. Women are so transparent.
I am, I know. :o) Born NOT to be a poker player!
There is no Right to drive so let’s drop that.
If someone is driving drunk/high repeatedly, you may never know it until they kill someone.
DUI arrests mean nothing except to antidrinking propot nuts like yourself.
CDC is looking at pushing the standard down to 0.03BAC (and some want Sweden’s BAC of 0.01).
But you are okay with SOME drug wars as long as it isn’t your sacred toke.
“you may never know it until they kill someone.”
It can be known. It is known. Someone always knows.
The problem isn’t detection and apprehension, it is the court system. I know someone that has 7 DUIs. He is still walking the streets and has spent a mere 60 days total in jail. He even killed someone in one of his wrecks. Got that 60 days for it.
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