01-08-2010, 05:48 AM
I have no doubt that someone can get befuddled on pot and cause a car accident. On pot alone, you will not see people speeding and recklessly unaware that they are impaired, which is the gift of alcohol. On pot alone, people know they are impaired and are concerned. That doesn't mean they can't still screw up.
Teenagers, who are inexperienced drivers, can get in bad wrecks without any help. But society has elected to put them on the road anyway because we all have to learn.
I do not think marijuana should be criminal; however I think driving on any drug or medication that impairs you shouldn't be done. Kava, vicodin, valium, pot, alcohol, meth, too much coffee or a triple dose of ginseng, whatever. Driving impaired should be a whole separate issue than whether it is a criminal act to use and possess the substance. Guns are legal, and there are certain ways that it's highly illegal to use them. Duh. We believe people are capable of owning a gun without using it to murder someone, but we don't believe people are capable of imbibing a substance without using it to the point that they're a danger to the public? BS. The illegality is all about the profit these days.
There will always be people who make stupid decisions in any area of life you can think of, but the rest of us shouldn't be deprived because of them.
PS. To carry on with my rep as the format nazi on this topic, I'm having a really hard time with this quote within quote within quote action, and the strikeouts. Having colored font is not even helping.
Might I suggest that you simply answer the other person with a brief reference to the point, or if it's really important to show the quote you're addressing, just pick out the salient quote and don't repeat the whole back and forth? It turns into the most awful muddle.
I tried to get through the last couple, and if not that I know from previous topics that Dave is an EMT and that mdd lost friends in a crash, I would have thought mdd is the EMT and it was Dave's friends who died ...
Teenagers, who are inexperienced drivers, can get in bad wrecks without any help. But society has elected to put them on the road anyway because we all have to learn.
I do not think marijuana should be criminal; however I think driving on any drug or medication that impairs you shouldn't be done. Kava, vicodin, valium, pot, alcohol, meth, too much coffee or a triple dose of ginseng, whatever. Driving impaired should be a whole separate issue than whether it is a criminal act to use and possess the substance. Guns are legal, and there are certain ways that it's highly illegal to use them. Duh. We believe people are capable of owning a gun without using it to murder someone, but we don't believe people are capable of imbibing a substance without using it to the point that they're a danger to the public? BS. The illegality is all about the profit these days.
There will always be people who make stupid decisions in any area of life you can think of, but the rest of us shouldn't be deprived because of them.
PS. To carry on with my rep as the format nazi on this topic, I'm having a really hard time with this quote within quote within quote action, and the strikeouts. Having colored font is not even helping.
Might I suggest that you simply answer the other person with a brief reference to the point, or if it's really important to show the quote you're addressing, just pick out the salient quote and don't repeat the whole back and forth? It turns into the most awful muddle.
I tried to get through the last couple, and if not that I know from previous topics that Dave is an EMT and that mdd lost friends in a crash, I would have thought mdd is the EMT and it was Dave's friends who died ...