Comments on: What we know about marijuana http://stash.norml.org/what-we-know-about-marijuana The Growing Truth About Cannabis Sun, 22 Nov 2009 01:16:47 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: John Reade http://stash.norml.org/what-we-know-about-marijuana/comment-page-1#comment-2714 John Reade Sun, 02 Nov 2008 12:17:44 +0000 http://stash.norml.org/?p=1010#comment-2714 I'm trying to find a study that was done back in the 60's and funded by auto insurance companies. It compared the effects of alcohol and marijuana on the reaction times of drivers using a simulated car driving experience. I'm sure I saw a film of the results, but cannot for the life of me remember the title of it. The experiment compared the effects of one drink of scotch compared with smoking 1 joint, 2 drinks, 2 joints etc. Interestingly enough, the joints had less of an effect than the scotch. Can you help with this quest? I’m trying to find a study that was done back in the 60’s and funded by auto insurance companies. It compared the effects of alcohol and marijuana on the reaction times of drivers using a simulated car driving experience. I’m sure I saw a film of the results, but cannot for the life of me remember the title of it.

The experiment compared the effects of one drink of scotch compared with smoking 1 joint, 2 drinks, 2 joints etc. Interestingly enough, the joints had less of an effect than the scotch.

Can you help with this quest?

]]> By: Anne http://stash.norml.org/what-we-know-about-marijuana/comment-page-1#comment-478 Anne Wed, 11 Jun 2008 05:35:30 +0000 http://stash.norml.org/?p=1010#comment-478 I am a middle aged mother of 3 and I have used Cannibus many many times during my teen and young adult years. I am 100% behind the legalization of cannibus,in general. Not stricktly for medicinal purposes. I beleive that our rights as people in this country are being dissolved by the powers that be,on a daily basis. I feel that as a consenting adult in the privacy of my own home,for which I am paying exhorbadent amounts of money to live in thanks to the powers that be....I have the right to embibe as I see fit in an occassional pipe filled with marajuana. I work with the public and have done so for many many years and I can tell you that I have never been insulted by,vomited on,or threatened in any way by a customer under the influence of marajuana. However ALCAHOL has caused many individuals I deal with,to behave in the most socially unacceptible ways. They are beligerant,rude,unable to hold their liquor,they urinate in the public parking areas...etc..etc. My son was involved in a drinking driving accident and almost lost his life @ 17...If our tax dollars and energy is to be spent on any sort of recreational drug I am all for making ALCAHOL illegal. People will at some point wake up to the realization that Marajuana always has been and always will be a part of society. Legalize it,get over it and begin crusading about the real issues,homelessness,hunger domestic violence,and while we are at it lets make "common sense" a law,maybe the decision makers will be forced to see things more clearly. And for the record.... I DID INHAIL!!. I am a middle aged mother of 3 and I have used Cannibus many many times during my teen and young adult years. I am 100% behind the legalization of cannibus,in general. Not stricktly for medicinal purposes. I beleive that our rights as people in this country are being dissolved by the powers that be,on a daily basis. I feel that as a consenting adult in the privacy of my own home,for which I am paying exhorbadent amounts of money to live in thanks to the powers that be….I have the right to embibe as I see fit in an occassional pipe filled with marajuana. I work with the public and have done so for many many years and I can tell you that I have never been insulted by,vomited on,or threatened in any way by a customer under the influence of marajuana.

However ALCAHOL has caused many individuals I deal with,to behave in the most socially unacceptible ways. They are beligerant,rude,unable to hold their liquor,they urinate in the public parking areas…etc..etc. My son was involved in a drinking driving accident and almost lost his life @ 17…If our tax dollars and energy is to be spent on any sort of recreational drug I am all for making ALCAHOL illegal. People will at some point wake up to the realization that Marajuana always has been and always will be a part of society. Legalize it,get over it and begin crusading about the real issues,homelessness,hunger domestic violence,and while we are at it lets make “common sense” a law,maybe the decision makers will be forced to see things more clearly. And for the record….

I DID INHAIL!!.

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