Colorado launches campaign to stop stoned driving

[PaulConventionWV]

Everyone here seems to be extremely pro marijuana. Honestly I think a lot of you are just parroting things you've heard before. Contrary to what you guys think marijuana isn't harmless. It's effects aren't all positive with no negatives. Not everyone reacts to Marijuana the same way. Sure for some people marijuana makes them really focused and calm at the same time but for other people marijuana makes them tired, spaced out, and unable to focus. Those people would definitely be wreckless behind the wheel.

I strive for wrecklessness.

 

[PaulConventionWV]

Why do I care? At the risk of sounding stereotypical, I'd prefer a stoned individual not to plow into my car.

As you should... I would prefer nobody plow into my car, but many people who are completely sober do it. I don't worry about a high person any more than I do some random jackass.

I can agree with that. Driving drunk and stoned should stay illegal, but there is no need for checkpoints.

No victim, no crime.

 

[PaulConventionWV]

What's a pretext? I don't think random roadside checks are constitutional. If all of you claim you can drive around high better than normal, you won't get pulled over for bad driving amiright?

Oh, right, I forgot... If I'm not hiding anything, I have nothing to fear, right?

 

[Schifference]

If you were a NASCAR or Formula racer would you smoke pot prior to the main event?

 

[muh_roads]

I would trust a stoned driver over a drunk driver any day. Stoned drivers drive almost too carefully and are paranoid as fuck.

 

[acptulsa]

If you were a NASCAR or Formula racer would you smoke pot prior to the main event?

No. But then if I were racing I would want to be as aggressive as all hell behind the wheel. And I wouldn't have a grandmother in a Buick parking at the end of the acceleration lane of the expressway onramp to get mad at, either.

 

[speciallyblend]

looks like reefer madness is still alive and well.

 

[pcosmar]

What's a pretext? I don't think random roadside checks are constitutional. If all of you claim you can drive around high better than normal, you won't get pulled over for bad driving amiright?

I never have been. Ever.

And of the two DUIs.. The first one I was not driving at all,, and the second,, I was not even close to being drunk,, And the asshole got fired over false reports.
(too late to help in my case)

I have never gotten a speeding ticket in my life,, nor any other driving infraction.

edit,
I think, ,maybe, I did get a parking ticket,, very long ago.

 

[pcosmar]

I would trust a stoned driver over a drunk driver any day. Stoned drivers drive almost too carefully and are paranoid as fuck.

I am careful,, stoned or not.
Being stoned keeps me calmer when encountering the idiots out there.

The only thing I have ever been "paranoid" of is the police.
(you're not paranoid if they really are out to get you)

Remove that threat and "paranoia" disappears.