Posted on 05/07/2022 8:15:27 AM PDT by grundle
Edited on 05/07/2022 9:08:34 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
TISHOMINGO, Okla. (AP) — The teenage driver of a small car that collided with a large truck in Oklahoma, killing all six occupants in the car, tested negative for alcohol but positive for cannabis after her death, according to a preliminary report released Thursday.
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Let’s all chant in a libertarian singsong voice:
But MarIjuANA is a victimless crime!
Pot isn’t dangerous, unlike alcohol..............
I know, we have had many discussions about marijuana on this site. And there is a strong libertarian contingent here, who stress the libertarian view.
Which among other things, means that we aren’t allowed to talk about whether marijuana is a dangerous drug or not. In that mindset, we need to be libertarian and non-judgemental about things.
There is a strong 10th amendment community here too, which stress that the federal government has no business banning or controlling any drugs. So there’s that too.
Bummer dude.
There is no way to determine proximity to use. Alcohol is out of the system overnight. THC stays in the system for a long time.
Not saying this person wasn’t high when the accident occurred, but saying someone “has marijuana in their system” tells us absolutely nothing to the person’s state of mind at the time of the accident.
I’ve been off of pot for over a decade, but I’m fine with people smoking if they can be responsible with it. As a recovering alcoholic, I have issues with substances, so I abstain from it all. To each their own.
Just because it was in her system does not mean she was impaired. She could have smoked a week earlier and it would have still showed up in her system.
She was supposed to sit on her back porch and not bother nobody. They never do.
The driver was distracted by a bag of chips ....
An inexperienced driver violating the terms of her license, loading six people in a tiny four-seater and driving while possibly impaired. What could go wrong? I guess she found out.
I notice that weed-legal Illinois, which has marijuana dispenery billboards along the expressways, is starting warn drivers against driving under the influence of pot.
A high 16 yr old girl probably completely spaced out on the new superweed driving with 5 other 16yr old girls crammed into a TINY car...
ugh
And to filthy potheads and their brainless sympathizers, that makes the drug seem so much better.
While pot may or may not be a gateway drug...it’s definitely not an intersection drug.
“She could have smoked a week earlier...”
Or, she and her dopey friends left school at lunchtime to get high and were passing a joint as the driver was pulling out in front of the truck.
9 out of 10 says she was on her cell phone. I just passed a group of teens (real teens, not the ferals) on the highway on their fricking phones.
Hold my roach and watch this ...
I grieve for the victims and their families. I truly hope that their school friends will take the needed lessons to heart from this tragedy! That being said, let us remind ourselves of WHY such tragedies are visited upon youths and young adults like these.
This derives from a failure of prudence when prudence is not bolstered by experience and guidance. At that age, it is obvious and expected that there cannot be sufficient experience so there must be teaching and rules and repetition because youth resists and resents that which they have not experienced. In this case the guidance failed and these young lives were lost for it.
God Bless!
If they left high school during lunch break and smoked weed or some THC vape the paraphernalia would be at the crash site somewhere.
State Police would searched that car fully for drugs/alcohol.
Driving with 5 friends in the car would have been very distracting. I think that was the main problem and why new drivers are not permitted to.
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