That said I'm totally opposed to the legalization of drugs.
On another board someone posted...(excerpted)
I have yet to see/hear of anyone dying from smoking marijuana
It isn't what they do to themselves, it's what they do to innocents.
Toxicology results revealed Mr. Cope had marijuana in his system at the time of the crash. Officers said they smelled the odor of the drug in his vehicle.
The doper later admitted to smoking (and using other drugs but it had to be the "other drugs" right?).
DUIs? Same thing. Let's compound the problem by letting dopers get their fix and kill people like Lisa Clay Styles.
If they legalized it they could tax the hell out of the users. D’s love taxing people.
“It isn’t what they do to themselves, it’s what they do to innocents.”
Quite right, I have personally been the victim of a nutjob pothead. Also have seen serious child neglect from it.
California’s prop. 19 does not set a statutory limit for being under the influence, so, you can be high as a kite and still be watching the kiddies. At least alcohol has a limit, beyond which you are considered “under the influence.” They kids can be protected as well as other motorists, etc.
I was born & raised in CA and went to UCLA back in the 1970's. I smoked grass back then and I've been stoned a number of times. But I have never been THAT stoned, nor have I ever even seen anyone THAT stoned on marijuana alone, to run over someone on the road, back over her and then not remember it. That's a crap excuse from the driver, trying to get out of what he had done. I've been far higher, wilder and out of it on alcohol than I ever have been on marijuana.
That drivers story makes absolutely no sense -- it's like an "I took 2 aspirin and saw pink elephants in my living room" story.