Ask yourself, do marijuana users, who can be found in the wee hours of the morning, staring at the “white noise” of a blank TV screen – off the air for hours, be competent drivers? Every druggie has laughed about having found themselves in that position.
What is this television channel in the 21st century that goes “off the air”? John, it’s called the digital transition – your old Magnavox console with the built in 8-track and turntable won’t pick up our fancy-schmancy hi-def 24-hour digital channels, dagnabbit!
John provides a cut-n-paste of a study that says pot smokers are 3 to 7 times more likely to cause an accident. He’s kind enough to provide footnotes to these esteemed scientist’s work. But John’s been hammered in his comments section, by me and quite a few well-educated people, pointing out every flaw in his argument and every deficit in his scientific claims. There is a simple explanation: John’s scientists are pure as the driven snow and our scientists are “druggies” with a self-serving agenda bankrolled by evil world dominating billionaires.
[I]n fact, those who leave comments, claim it’s just the opposite.Of course they’re users, trying to tell you that they’re fine to drive, … and they’ll refer to “studies”, proving just the opposite of what is only common sense, that using marijuana doesn’t impair drivers … so where’s the truth? [T]here are seemingly competent scientists who are also users, and will evidently produce ‘studies’ to further their agendas, and/or those who pay them, and don’t forget; behind the scenes, there are also wealthy men and organizations willing to bankroll anything to further their goal of legalization.
And the next claim will make Dr. Earleywine and every other scientist who’s ever tried to get a grant to study the medicinal properties of cannabis fall out of their chair:
These scientists, … they’re also a concern, for those attempting to find the truth. Truth is, they’re under pressure: 1) if academics - they need to be a published author, (being published in the scientific and research field means more respect and impacts tenure issues) … 2) how better to get more grant money than to produce something controversial?
Oh, yeah, the money is just flowing for controversial marijuana studies. Can’t you just stick to the standard reefer madness lines like “This ain’t your father’s Woodstock Weed”?
Understand also that the marijuana of this generation is not the same as their parents smoked!
Pot then, had a THC content of 1 – 3%. Now, the THC content is surging up to 25%. (That too will be covered in future articles.) One can expect an increase of physiological and psychological problems with higher dosages.
Sure, the flower children were all smoking barely-above industrial hemp ditchweed. That explains Laugh In, “be-ins”, massive afros, bellbottoms, and the Grateful Dead. all that lousy weak pot our parents were smoking.
I could cite the studies that show heavily-stoned drivers drive no worse than a .05 BAC driver, or that we tend to drive slower and leave more room, but also tend to wander a bit in the lane. John would just say those are druggie scientists. It doesn’t matter because nobody’s advocating for people to be allowed to drive stoned. Making marijuana legal is not going to increase any smoking and driving, because the idiots who would do that are doing that now. When marijuana is legal, police will still be able to bust drivers who demonstate impairment or poor driving.
So many of these prohibitionist fears are based on the notion that making marijuana legal will mean suddenly people will start smoking it. Out of nowhere we’ll have increased healthcare costs, lost productivity, impaired drivers, psychotic teenagers, and rampant crime. You can only buy into that if you don’t know that 22 million people are smoking pot this year, 14 million monthly, 3 million weekly. If the projected harms of legalized marijuana exist, we would have seen them by now because so many people have been smoking marijuana for so long!
Don’t smoke and drive, don’t drive impaired. It’s all we ask of beer drinkers and they are far more dangerous drivers.
Thursday, July 9th, 2009 at 5:20 pm | By: Radical Russ
Holy shnikes! I think my next road trip home to visit the folks just got a whole lot more fun!*
(AP) In Idaho, you can drive high as long as you can drive straight.
Marijuana users can drive legally in the state as long as their driving isn’t erratic and they can pass a field sobriety test, a federal appeals court ruled Monday. The three-judge panel of the San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals wrote that while it is illegal to drive under the influence of alcohol or narcotics, Idaho law doesn’t list marijuana as a narcotic.
The ruling overturned an impaired driving conviction against Matthew Patzer, 21, who was stopped for a broken tailgate light in 1998 and admitted to police he’d smoked marijuana at a party. The appeals court said Patzer could not automatically be presumed impaired; he wasn’t driving erratically and passed two field sobriety tests.
“Given the distinction drawn by the statute, there is no basis to conclude that impairment may be presumed upon admission of use of a non-narcotic drug,” the appeals court wrote.
Saturday, April 25th, 2009 at 9:20 am | By: Dudemaster
Sometimes one really should say NO to another toke, especially if one is driving directly behind a police car.
Steven B. Clarke
On Tuesday, April 21, 2009, Steven B. Clarke, 21, fell asleep directly behind a police car at a busy interception after toking on some Ganja. He apparently woke up after Police spotlighted him through his window and tapped on the glass.
Likely in a ganja-ridden Jeff Spicoli haze (reference to my favorite stoner movie of all time, “Fast Times at Ridgemont High” with a very young Sean Penn in the staring role), he rolled down his window and exposed the officers to enough pot smoke that gave them probable cause to yank him out of his car and conduct a search. After finding 45 grams from his pocket, Clarke was placed under arrest. Although Clarke stated to officers, “I am from Jamaica and smoke a lot of marijuana,” officers weren’t persuaded in releasing him without charges.
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
Steven B. Clarke may have done something incredibly stupid by using his choice of medicine and driving, but the real crime is that will he will be paying for this mistake for the remainder of his life in this country. In Evansville, Indiana, the penalty for possession of Marijuana greater than 30 grams is a misdemeanor and carries a maximum incarceration of 6 months to 3 years, $10,000 in fines, court costs and any possible diversion treatment he may be ordered to attend. If the district attorney chooses to do so, they can escalate his charge to a felony.
Is anyone still laughing? How about the hand picked audience who attended the town hall meeting where President Obama laughed at us for asking him to open a dialogue for science over politics, are you still laughing?
The ratio of prisoners to citizens in the wonderfully green and beautiful country of Finland is 50 incarcerations per 100,000, while the United States leads the bold charge of locking up a considerable portion of our citizens at a rate of 738 per 100,000. According to 2008 statistics, the United States ranks first in the world for the number of incarcerations per citizens with those evil Chinese prisons a DISTANT second. In America, 7.2 million people are either behind bars, on probation, or parole. More than 1 in 100 adults were incarcerated at the start of 2008.
Monday, February 2nd, 2009 at 5:26 pm | By: Radical Russ
New Hampshire Stashers, this Thursday there is a hearing on HB 575 . This bill would radically expand the New Hampshire DUI laws and enable police to conduct an unprecedented witch hunt on our roads and highways.
The public hearing for this bill is scheduled for Thursday, Feb. 5, at 11:00 in the Legislative Office Building (LOB) room 204. If you can attend this hearing of the House Criminal Justice and Public Safety Committee, please do so. You will not have to speak, but it would be great to have as many people as possible sign the committee’s sign-in sheet registering their opposition to the bill.
Monday, February 2nd, 2009 at 5:02 pm | By: Radical Russ
NORML regrets to inform you that Senate Bill 5, an act to criminalize anyone who operates a motor vehicle with any detectable level of marijuana in their blood, has been referred to the Kentucky Senate Rules Committee.
If passed, Senate Bill 5 would mandate criminal penalties for any person who operates a motor vehicle with any measurable level of THC in their blood. This proposal would improperly impact cannabis consumers because THC can remain detectable at low levels in the blood of daily marijuana users for up to 1 or 2 days after past use. In the case of chronic smokers, THC may be detectable in the blood for even longer periods of time. (More information on this subject is available from NORML here.)
Someone who smokes marijuana is impaired as a driver — at most — for a few hours, not days. To treat marijuana smokers as if they are impaired, even when the drug’s effects have long worn off, is illogical and unfair.
In addition, Kentucky already has laws on the books targeting and prosecuting drivers who operate a motor vehicle “under the influence” of illicit drugs. Senate Bill 5 creates a separate crime of “drugged driving” that is, potentially, divorced from impairment and that could jail motorists for simply having consumed an illicit substance at some prior, unspecified date.
Please take a moment today to contact your elected officials and urge them to oppose Senate Bill 5. If your senator sits on the Senate Rules Committee then it is especially important that he or she hears from you. For your convenience, a pre-written letter will be e-mailed to your state representative when you enter your contact information below.
Monday, January 19th, 2009 at 9:00 am | By: Radical Russ
Montana Stashers, get on the phone NOW and call your State Senators to oppose SB 212 (details below). Montana Patients and Families United reports this bill would mandate blood testing for any patient suspected of DUII, sets the blood threshhold so low no patient could pass, the requires lifetime loss of the patient’s medical marijuana privileges.
RevRayGreen: I'll post a pic of me and my son....gimme a minute
Missippi Hippy: Guess what... I'm gonna be a new... ummmmm well, my pet piggie Ganja is in labor and they ain't mine in the same sense. See what your wife [...]
RevRayGreen: days they didn't talk back..or act disrespectful..
RevRayGreen: feel so lucky my son is 18 going 19 and my daughter 16 going on 17..relish the days that can't talk back
Urb Age: Congrats Spof thats awesome. My little Clara is about to hit 20 months. Im not the activist I used to be, but its made me a better man.
Urb Age: Heck I was gonna go up there, but just not feeling well this weekend..Dang it, I hate it when that happens..
RevRayGreen: wishing I was hanging at NORML cafe...
JohnH: Just a quick comment about tokin' and sperm motility....been tokin since age 14 and have 8 kids ranging in age from 30 to 9...(what can I say, I found 2 [...]
slash5city: really ..oprah 35 yr or more in the closet toker ...outed ....o my god !!
SneakerPimp: that would be huge news just imagen the headline
RevRayGreen: maybe Oprah smokes and keeps it on the DL...
SneakerPimp: and good afternoon
mr reuben: I could do without seeing Rob K. on tv. But Bruce and Eithan get a big thumbs up from me.
SneakerPimp: waitn for NSL and congrast for spofett.
mr reuben: I don't respect her opinion bluzguy.
Missippi Hippy: Something about the last year in a contract... folks become more ballsey... and Oprah has big ones.
Adam: Oprah won't actually go off air for over a year, 2011 sometime. Maybe with here leaving the network soon, she'll be more likely to speak out about MMJ.
The Bluzguy: She promotes movies, turns books into best sellers overnight, and millions respect her opinion. Please contact her!
Missippi Hippy: I totally disregarded it Spof... My wife and I had 5 youngins
Adam: I'm rolling a fat joint, Everyones invited,Spof, Russ,MH,NORML, and MPP.
Missippi Hippy: Oprah announced her last show earlier this week
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John English III: Fast and Furious
waitn for NSL and congrast for spofett.
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