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Should driving during or right after smoking pot be legal?

Should driving during or right after smoking pot be legal?


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Since it appears from many arguments I've seen that pot actually has no ill or dangerous effects either to the user or any one around them and causes basically zero impairment of judgment or reflexes, shouldn't driving while high be legal? If not, why not?

Choices will be yes, no, and I don't know.

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Since it appears from many arguments I've seen that pot actually has no ill or dangerous effects either to the user or any one around them and causes basically zero impairment of judgment or reflexes, should driving while high be illegal? If so, why?

Choices will be yes, no, and I don't know.

Need a second to get the poll up.

Hell no. If pot makes me have to read the same page of a book twenty times over before I can follow the story then no way in hell should I be operating a vehicle on it.
 
No no no. It should be regulated just as alcohol is regulated.
 
No no no. It should be regulated just as alcohol is regulated.

Here's my problem (well, one of many, lol). Every time the subject is legalization of marijuana, the pro side almost invariably compares pot to alcohol and almost always concludes that pot is actually better and safer so shouldn't our traffic and criminal laws be changed to reflect that one is just not as bad as the other?

You're ok with non-violent people spending time in jail for such a minor thing?
 
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Here's my problem (well, one of many). Every time the subject is legalization of marijuana, the pro side almost invariably compares pot to alcohol and almost always concludes that pot is actually better and safer so shouldn't our traffic laws be changed to reflect that one is just not as bad as the other?
Is pot "safer"? Depends what you mean. They both cause different affects. From my time smoking and drinking, when im high i cannot operate normally and i believe you should not be allowed to operate a motor vehicle after or during smoking. I have friends that do and can fine but still being under the influence while operating a motor vehicle is not safe and should not be allowed for the population.

You're ok with non-violent people spending time in jail for such a minor thing?
I think it should be handled just like a DUI.
 
Here's my problem (well, one of many). Every time the subject is legalization of marijuana, the pro side almost invariably compares pot to alcohol and almost always concludes that pot is actually better and safer so shouldn't our traffic laws be changed to reflect that one is just not as bad as the other?

You're ok with non-violent people spending time in jail for such a minor thing?

Non-violent or not, people who smoke pot are absolutely horrible judges of the benefits of pot. How many stories have you seen that are liked on Facebook or shared through email on the hundreds of dubious benefits of marijuana (the one about cannabis curing cancer probably being my favorite)?

People should be allowed to smoke pot, but they shouldn't be allowed to drive a two ton vehicle on it.
 
Is pot "safer"? Depends what you mean. They both cause different affects. From my time smoking and drinking, when im high i cannot operate normally and i believe you should not be allowed to operate a motor vehicle after or during smoking. I have friends that do and can fine but still being under the influence while operating a motor vehicle is not safe and should not be allowed for the population.


I think it should be handled just like a DUI.

Ok, but as you can see with some of your friends, it can be done safely, right?
 
Since it appears from many arguments I've seen that pot actually has no ill or dangerous effects either to the user or any one around them and causes basically zero impairment of judgment or reflexes, shouldn't driving while high be legal? If not, why not?

Choices will be yes, no, and I don't know.

Need a second to get the poll up.

No obviously, treat it like alcohol, it's not that complicated.
 
Here's my problem (well, one of many, lol). Every time the subject is legalization of marijuana, the pro side almost invariably compares pot to alcohol and almost always concludes that pot is actually better and safer so shouldn't our traffic and criminal laws be changed to reflect that one is just not as bad as the other?

You're ok with non-violent people spending time in jail for such a minor thing?

Right Wingers crack me up..............:lamo

People only compare pot to alcohol because they are both minor impairments to the brains function.

They are not alike, but they are both impairments.

But regulation doesn't work...........(R)ight?
 
Ok, but as you can see with some of your friends, it can be done safely, right?

Ive driven a car blacked the **** out and got home safe... People drink and drive all the time and dont harm people does that mean we should make it legal?
 
Ok, but as you can see with some of your friends, it can be done safely, right?

I have a high tolerance for Beer. I can drive across the country better than most people can with the distraction of kids.

But I'm not ignorant enough to think that I'm the only person in American and recognize that lots of people have accidents when under the influence of Alcohol.
 
People can drive drunk safely.

Maybe, but it's a much more rare occurance. People who are drunk often swerve and hit things. The only effect mj has, apparently, is causing someone to drive slow. Heck, since people tend to get more injured the greater the speed, couldn't the argument even be made that driving while high is actually safer?
 
It's going to be fun watching people realize that making it legal just starts the crap from the start all over again. The best part however, is going to be watching many of them support it going right back down the same path. Government control is like a hole. If you ever manage to get out of it there is always some jackass at the top trying to push you back in.
 
No obviously, treat it like alcohol, it's not that complicated.

Except that the argument is often that pot and alcohol are NOT the same, so why would you treat them the same?
 
Except that the argument is often that pot and alcohol are NOT the same, so why would you treat them the same?

Obviously they aren't the same, but the affects of marijuana impair your ability to operate a motor vehicle, so doing so should be a DUI. DUI's are not just for alcohol, they are for all kinds of drugs. I had a prescription for Lorazepam(Ativan), and you can receive a DUI if you drive while under the influence of that drug. So the same standard should be applied for marijuana.
 
Wine and Everclear are not the same. Why are they treated alike?


Except that the argument is often that pot and alcohol are NOT the same, so why would you treat them the same?
 
I think if there was some way to test for being baked like there is for alcohol then why not? A lot of us are guilty of driving home from a restaurant or bar after a few drinks. I wouldn't drive home if I drank 4 shots and I wouldn't drive home if I took some serious hits on chronic either, but a few beers, a hit of some cheap Mex, then maybe.
 
Since it appears from many arguments I've seen that pot actually has no ill or dangerous effects either to the user or any one around them and causes basically zero impairment of judgment or reflexes, shouldn't driving while high be legal? If not, why not?

Choices will be yes, no, and I don't know.

Need a second to get the poll up.

I love it, but its not something you want to drive on. Illegal.
 
Obviously they aren't the same, but the affects of marijuana impair your ability to operate a motor vehicle, so doing so should be a DUI. DUI's are not just for alcohol, they are for all kinds of drugs. I had a prescription for Lorazepam(Ativan), and you can receive a DUI if you drive while under the influence of that drug. So the same standard should be applied for marijuana.

As far as you know, has anyone ever been injured or killed by a driver who was under the influence of pot? I've been told that there is not one single fatality attributable to m/j.
 
Wine and Everclear are not the same. Why are they treated alike?

If the effects of being drunk on wine were substantially different from being drunk on Everclear then they should be treated differently, shouldn't they? The effects are the same though because the intoxicant is the same.
 
Maybe, but it's a much more rare occurance.

What do you base that on?

The only effect mj has, apparently, is causing someone to drive slow.

Yeah...that's not true. Are you just playing devil's advocate?

Heck, since people tend to get more injured the greater the speed, couldn't the argument even be made that driving while high is actually safer?

Ok, you're definitely playing devil's advocate.
 
As far as you know, has anyone ever been injured or killed by a driver who was under the influence of pot? I've been told that there is not one single fatality attributable to m/j.

I'm sure there has been, I have no stats at hand. And you are misinterpreting what you have been told, there has been no fatality that can be attributed to the use of marijuana, which basically means no one has overdosed on marijuana. It's just not possible. That is what that means, not what you want it to mean.
 
As far as you know, has anyone ever been injured or killed by a driver who was under the influence of pot? I've been told that there is not one single fatality attributable to m/j.

3 Second google. Link headline is incorrect. It says 3 were killed. It was actually 4 when you read the article.

A Queens teenager who crashed his car on a Long Island highway last month, killing four of his friends, now faces 25 years in prison after testing positive for marijuana, authorities said Friday. The car launched into a wooded area and split in two after striking a tree. The four passengers — Darian Ramnarine, 18; Peter Kanhai, 18; Chris Kahn, 18; and Neal Rajapa, 17 — were all tossed from the car and died. Prosecutors said a blood sample, taken from Beer two hours after the crash, tested positive for marijuana.

"The sheer magnitude of this tragedy is unthinkable, and it could have easily been avoided if this defendant had simply made the right choice to drive sober and drive safely," said Nassau County District Attorney Kathleen Rice. "Instead, we have four promising young lives cut short, another young man facing years in prison, and families that will forever be torn apart by this horrific crash."


Read more: Queens teenager Joseph Beer faces 25 years in prison for car crash that killed three friends* - NY Daily News
 
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