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Drug-driving deaths more than double in US
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]
What a shock, high people killing more people on the roads....[FONT="]A[/FONT][FONT="]n estimated one in six fatal crashes in Washington involved a driver who had recently used marijuana.
[/FONT][FONT="]“The significant increase in fatal crashes involving marijuana is alarming,” said Peter Kissinger, president and CEO of the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety. “Washington serves as an eye-opening case study for what other states may experience with road safety after legalizing the drug.”[/FONT]
[FONT=proxima_nova]Any time Mary Gaston drives by the intersection where a driver high on marijuana plowed into her son's motorcycle two and a half years ago, the loud bang of the impact replays in her head.
[/FONT][FONT=proxima_nova]Blake had hugged her before he left the suburban Seattle restaurant's parking lot — it was the last time she would ever feel his embrace.[/FONT]
[FONT=proxima_nova]"I heard it and I knew instantly," Gaston remembers. "I said 'that's Blake' and I just ran. It was not even 50 feet away. And he was lying in the intersection bleeding out."[/FONT]
[FONT=proxima_nova]Though doctors tried to save his life, 23-year-old Blake Gaston didn't make it.[/FONT]
[FONT=proxima_nova]His story is becoming frighteningly more common. A new report by the American Auto Association (AAA) has found that the percentage of drivers who are high on pot during fatal accidents in Washington State more than doubled between 2013 and 2014.
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]