jonny5
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I am all for legalization, but not until there is a accurate nationwide universally accepted way of doing roadside testing for "DUI"
People should not have to pay fines, or go to jail for having pot when they use it in a responsible manner.
There is. Get out and walk a straight line.
I'd like to know what "recently" exactly means and how they determined it as marijuana can stay in the bodies blood for days after use.
That being said, people get intoxicated and then drive, that is nothing new.
Walking straight lines is not a problem on pot. Easy, actually, for a high person to walk a straight line. Harder though is trying to answer rapid fire questions.
I was being simplistic. Point is there is a standard test as to whether someone is able to drive a car safely. It doesnt matter if youve used drugs, alcohol, or are simply distracted.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration estimates that drowsy driving was responsible for 72,000 crashes, 44,000 injuries, and 800 deaths in 2013.4 However, these numbers are underestimated and up to 6,000 fatal crashes each year may be caused by drowsy drivers.
Drowsy Driving: Asleep at the Wheel | Features | CDC
Don't forget tired.
Impaired Drivers = wrecks. More MJ users... more chance of impaired drivers.
WHOOOSH common sense just skull ****ed your post.
Drug-driving deaths more than double in US
What a shock, high people killing more people on the roads....
[/FONT][/COLOR]http://www.today.com/health/driving-while-high-marijuana-causing-spike-fatal-accidents-t91746
I don't get the desire or demand to legalize pot, do you WANT to kill people? FFS what is wrong with the lot of you?[/FONT][/COLOR]
Debunked here several times already as Chicken Little alarmist claptrap.
"Marijuana-related" does not in any way imply 'marijuana-caused'.
Why does this sound like a gun control argument to me?
Reason likes legalization. Common sense says "Let people get high, more will drive. High people don't drive so well."
You can flop around all you want spud, but reality cannot be dismissed with a url link.
It doesn't, since getting high isn't a Constitutional right...
I don't care if it rises fifty times in so far as legalization is concerned.
What I put in my body is NONE of the government's business and all recreational drugs (with the possible exception of heroin - not sure) should be legal.
You do the right thing first and then worry about the consequences...not the other way around.
And the right thing is freedom...the legalization of recreational drugs.
So you're happy with the government confiscating all freedom that isn't explicitly enumerated in the constitution ?
I completely disagree.
I am all for legalization, but not until there is a accurate nationwide universally accepted way of doing roadside testing for "DUI"
People should not have to pay fines, or go to jail for having pot when they use it in a responsible manner.
I don't care if it rises fifty times in so far as legalization is concerned.
What I put in my body is NONE of the government's business and all recreational drugs (with the possible exception of heroin - not sure) should be legal.
You do the right thing first and then worry about the consequences...not the other way around.
And the right thing is freedom...the legalization of recreational drugs.
Roadside testing for drugs or alcohol should only happen under probable cause. Roadblocks are not the thing of a free society.
I never said that... I said that comparing this issue to the 2nd Amendment is dishonest, because one is a Constitutional right, while the other is nothing more than whining children wanting to get high and to hell with being responsible.
Dead people have no freedom.
I don't care if it rises fifty times in so far as legalization is concerned.
What I put in my body is NONE of the government's business and all recreational drugs (with the possible exception of heroin - not sure) should be legal.
You do the right thing first and then worry about the consequences...not the other way around.
And the right thing is freedom...the legalization of recreational drugs.
No problem there until you decide to drive a car or a bike or a boat or an ATV while impaired. Then it is the public's business.
I don't get the desire or demand to legalize pot, do you WANT to kill people? FFS what is wrong with the lot of you?[/FONT][/COLOR]
One bad choice does not justify another... Your line of thinking leads to ever lowering standards, when what we should be pursuing are higher standards. Instead of lowering the bar, we should be raising it.
So, we should keep alcohol and cellphones legal despite the massive amount more accidents they caused, and we should make marijuana even more criminalized despite the fact that that never prevented anything?
What about guns? Or does that fall under "Freedomz"?
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