Posted on 08/22/2015 7:56:02 AM PDT by rktman
According to the Washington Traffic Safety Commission, an exponential increase in the number of deaths involving marijuana-impaired drivers occurred between 2013 and 2014, reports KOIN.
Marijuana was legalized in the state of Washington in 2014; between 2010 and 2013 the number of marijuana-impaired drivers involved in fatal crashes ranged from 32 to 38 per year. But in 2014, after pot became legal, that number skyrocketed to 75. In half of the 2014 cases, the drug-addled drivers tested above the state’s legal limit for being under the influence of the drug while driving. Many of the heavily-drugged drivers also tested positive for alcohol or other kinds of drugs.
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And probably got even worse when the vape shops opened.
Party on recreational drug warrior losers.
It’s pretty simple: Don’t toke and drive.
Pot stays in the system after the user is no longer “high”, so how do they determine when the pot was ingested?
Also, drunk driving is a serious problem but I don’t hear anyone calling for prohibition again.
BIG $$$$$$$. See your local chapter of DAMM-Drunks Against Mad Muthas.
You know, this is what pisses me off about today's journalism. Why the word "skyrocketed"? Why not "increased". Journalists should report the news, not try to charge it with emotion using biased words. You tell me the facts and then I'll decide if I want to get emotional about it.
Another bogus statistic from the drug warriors. How do they know there’s been an increase unless they were tracking marijuana related fatalities before legalization. Plus there is no valid means of determining whether or not a person was actually impaired while driving. Marijuana remains in the body long after the effects have diminished
Soros will be very unhappy that this info sees the light of day.
After all, it is “medicine.”
Not to mention all of the unspoken assumptions behind what the media report.
For example, recent reports of how the hottest years in history have been recorded in weather reports since the turn of the century. The airheads on TV dutifully report that this is another indication of global warming and climate change. Is it really???? We can’t say that for certain, but the airheads they put on TV tell us it’s so.
Was there an increase in overall traffic fatalities during this time? If not this is just a Puff piece story.
There are statistical anomalies, spikes or valleys in legitimate data. In a few years we will know whether this is indicative of and increase because of the law change, or just a random spike. As better testing and understanding of “driving while high” becomes known, we will learn things that should have been studied decades ago. How pot affects drivers, for how long and what is the limit to legally drive?
Driving has definitely gotten more “interesting” in this state since the pot referendum got passed.
Down the hill from us there is a building with FOUR (count ‘em, FOUR) pot shops. We keep hoping it will burn down.
Just parroting obie with his necessarily “skyrocket” talk. Maybe it makes them think they sound cool or something. Now, if it was 1500, that might be a skyrocket. :>}
But if you smoked pot and drove a car, it was very likely that you would get lost. That was because of "spacing out" and forgetting to turn where you were supposed to turn.
This has got to be a win win for the casinos and NV revenues. Geez, I could set at the slots and toke up.
In related news….
Since marijuana legalization, highway fatalities in Colorado are at near-historic lows
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-watch/wp/2014/08/05/since-marijuana-legalization-highway-fatalities-in-colorado-are-at-near-historic-lows/
New study shows no link between marijuana use and car accidents
http://college.usatoday.com/2015/02/17/new-study-shows-no-link-between-marijuana-use-and-car-accidents/
I think it got more interesting when people got smart phones.
I see a half dozen a day that look like they're asleep at the wheel going down the freeway at 75 miles an hour.
Many of the heavily-drugged drivers also tested positive for alcohol or other kinds of drugs.
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