Driving while using

[Anonymous]

The solution is very simple, like when the US Congress made continued federal highway funding conditional on states raising their legal drinking age and strictly enforcing the DUI laws. They can do the same for driving under pot impairment. Fortunately Congress is not a pot-enamored as the “progressive” DC Council.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Users?

Drivers/passengers actively using drugs. Weed, shrooms, etc.

You got secondhand high from someone using shrooms in the car in front of you. mmmkkkaayyy

Of course, it's not ok to smoke weed while driving, but your hysteria is over the top.

Yes, I did.

Have you ever smoked weed? Hysterical is not how I would describe it.

I asked you if you got a secondhand high from someone using shrooms, not weed. You did not. Also, you did not get high from someone smoking in another car. Yes, you are hysterical and lose all credibility when you make stupid statements like that.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Users?

Drivers/passengers actively using drugs. Weed, shrooms, etc.

You got secondhand high from someone using shrooms in the car in front of you. mmmkkkaayyy

Of course, it's not ok to smoke weed while driving, but your hysteria is over the top.

Yes, I did.

Have you ever smoked weed? Hysterical is not how I would describe it.

No you didn’t. Not scientifically possible. 100% hysterical.

Sober up, addict. Secondhand smoke is not limited to tobacco. Set down the pipe and you might notice.

YOU DID NOT GET HIGH FROM SOMEONE SMOKING IN THE CAR IN FRONT OF YOU.

You can and should be against impaired people driving, but you have start from a point of reality, not hysteria.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Simple data should settle this debate
once and for all. Since MD legalization have road deaths gone up significantly? What about DC? Very simple.

Changes in Traffic Crash Rates After Legalization of Marijuana: Results by Crash Severity
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35838426/

Results: Legalization of the recreational use of marijuana was associated with a 6.5% increase in injury crash rates and a 2.3% increase in fatal crash rates, but the subsequent onset of retail marijuana sales did not elicit additional substantial changes. Thus, the combined effect of legalization and retail sales was a 5.8% increase in injury crash rates and a 4.1% increase in fatal crash rates. Across states, the effects on injury crash rates ranged from a 7% decrease to an 18% increase. The effects on fatal crash rates ranged from a 10% decrease to a 4% increase.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Simple data should settle this debate
once and for all. Since MD legalization have road deaths gone up significantly? What about DC? Very simple.

Changes in Traffic Crash Rates After Legalization of Marijuana: Results by Crash Severity
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35838426/

Results: Legalization of the recreational use of marijuana was associated with a 6.5% increase in injury crash rates and a 2.3% increase in fatal crash rates, but the subsequent onset of retail marijuana sales did not elicit additional substantial changes. Thus, the combined effect of legalization and retail sales was a 5.8% increase in injury crash rates and a 4.1% increase in fatal crash rates. Across states, the effects on injury crash rates ranged from a 7% decrease to an 18% increase. The effects on fatal crash rates ranged from a 10% decrease to a 4% increase.

There is absolutely no way to know if those drivers were high, or if drivers just plain old suck.

Half of the Uber drivers don’t know their left from right. The roads are more lawless than ever. Cops are pretty much worthless on the road. It’s normal to see accidents rise as cops are becoming less and less effective.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:A big part of the reason why I wanted to move to the US is because we used to enforce our driving under the influence laws. As a teenager growing up in a country where these laws did not even exist, I went to many funerals for kids who died in completely avoidable traffic accidents. In my high school of 300 kids, we buried at least five teenagers during my high school years. I cannot fully describe how these events marked our young lives. And I cannot even pretend to understand how these drunk driving deaths must have destroyed the parents and other relatives of the kids who died.

Drivers smoking weed--and, thus, driving impaired--have become too numerous and frequent in DC for me to even notice them anymore. But a few weeks ago I encountered--for the first time since I arrived in this country more than decades ago--a person driving while drinking a beer. He did not even try to conceal the beer as he drank from it. It was on M Street SW at around 3 p.m. He had zero concern the cops would pull him over.

Thank you Charles Allen and Brianne Nadeau and Phil Mendelhson and Brian Schwalb. Thank you. You have made this city safer for criminals in so many ways.

I have seen this too, but in NE. This is what happens when there is zero traffic enforcement.

[Anonymous]

Pot is the drug of choice for mediocre people and full on losers. No one at the absolute top of their game takes hits from the bong and rolls up spliffs.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Users?

Drivers/passengers actively using drugs. Weed, shrooms, etc.

Wait - how do you know they were shrooms?

The constant bs and exaggeration is half the problem.

It was a mixed thing. Not straight weed. I know what straight weed is like, bro.

You had a panic attack, self induced. You didn't get a contact high from the car in front of you.

No, wise guy. It was the opposite of a panic attack.

Driving high is so much more dangerous than driving after a beer.

According to who? Obviously some people like alcohol more than cannabis but alcohol is far more intoxicating to the point of death. Just facts.

So now we're arguing whether it's better to be driving on LSD vs. driving on PCP?

The only correct answer is that *no one* should be driving when they are high or drunk.

There is no safe amount of alcohol that someone can drive under. However lots of people drive better after using marijuana. Just facts.

This is so hilariously wrong it is a useful reminder that there are *painfully* stupid people out there who believe very silly things.

[Anonymous]

Same op same it's too much and no I didn't vote for this!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:People should not drive high. People should also not drive while tired, distracted, angry, etc.

Fact is, some people are not that bad at driving high. Some people are very bad at it.

https://www.ncbi.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2722956/

A study from 14 years ago? Try something a little more recent:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9940647/