Anonymous wrote:I think we've ended up with a pro-intoxication culture. Anyone who points out that habitual intoxication is actually bad on both personal and societal levels is dismissed as a Puritan, which is somehow understood as worse than the worthy and eminently relative ambition of spending your life in a drooling daze.

Anonymous wrote:I've never understood the "alcohol is worse" argument when the answer so clearly is that people shouldn't be spending their lives in a stupor caused by any chemical.

Anonymous wrote:Uh oh. The Marijuana Mafia is not gonna like this. WaPo just did a deep dive on marijuana addiction. How real it is, and how people who suffer from it are suppressed by weed proponents who insist it's harmless.

SOURCE: https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2023/07/31/marijuana-addiction-legal-recreational-sales/

“The problems that come up with cannabis-use disorder are very real. This was not always something that was talked about,” she said. “We were sort of laughed out of 12-step spaces.”

She smoked daily throughout her teen years before she was diagnosed with cannabis-use disorder when she was about 20. At rock bottom, M.B. said, she smoked or used a vape pen roughly every hour, often waking up at night to take hits. M.B. said she believes her habit led to at least one psychotic episode and to the draining of her finances, even as she lived at home with her parents. She spent so much buying weed that she stole money from family to pay bills.

M.B. joined the program online in 2020 during the height of the pandemic, although the withdrawals weren’t easy. For about a week, she couldn’t keep down food, suffered intense headaches and felt so uncomfortable that she showered constantly.

“I was really angry, crying all the time,” M.B. said. “I had really intense dreams that I was smoking.”

“The problems that come up with cannabis-use disorder are very real. This was not always something that was talked about,” she said. “We were sort of laughed out of 12-step spaces.”

She smoked daily throughout her teen years before she was diagnosed with cannabis-use disorder when she was about 20. At rock bottom, M.B. said, she smoked or used a vape pen roughly every hour, often waking up at night to take hits. M.B. said she believes her habit led to at least one psychotic episode and to the draining of her finances, even as she lived at home with her parents. She spent so much buying weed that she stole money from family to pay bills.

M.B. joined the program online in 2020 during the height of the pandemic, although the withdrawals weren’t easy. For about a week, she couldn’t keep down food, suffered intense headaches and felt so uncomfortable that she showered constantly.

“I was really angry, crying all the time,” M.B. said. “I had really intense dreams that I was smoking.”

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Anonymous wrote:I was on the road behind someone smoking pot. We ended up stopped at a light in front of a gas station. I was behind him in the next lane over. Someone was trying to exit the gas station so the pot smoker backed up right into the car behind him to make room. The car that was hit was honking his horn to get his attention. I asked the driver if he was ok and he said he had a dash cam that had recorded not only what had just happened but the entire trip down the road where the high driver was clearly driving erratically. I would love to know what happened and if the hit driver would have been charged as a rear end if he had not recorded the incident.
Montgomery county has realized they have made a huge mistake allowing people to smoke and drive because they just hired an agency to educate the public on using weed safely.

Total straight up lie. Nobody is allowed to be impaired while driving. Period.

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Exactly. These complainers don’t even know the laws. I laugh at them while I light my legal blunt at home. Look at them seethe.

NP. I have to chime in here. I just need to say this - as someone who has enjoyed marijuana on occasion - seek help. You are too invested in your love of a substance. Marijuana, like any other drug, has downsides. Stop acting like a moron and try to see both sides of the issue. Surely you learned critical thinking skills somewhere along the way, right? Perhaps if you stopped smoking so much you’ll be able to think straight.

DP here. There are no “both sides” to this issue. One side has made it their mission to persecute and imprison cannabis users for decades and the other side just wants to be left alone. We are rightfully happy that we don’t face violence from the state anymore. Who are you to scold the pp for their choices? Nobody ever said that there are no downsides. Was it clear and sober thinking that lead you to insult an anonymous person for having their own opinion? Maybe you should check yourself before diagnosing strangers.

Smoke is a nuisance and there are lots of people driving while high.

I followed one yesterday down the GW parkway. Driving his Land Rover, sucking his pacifier, window cracked, and glazed over stare. I exited and took a different route.

I think if they were consuming safely at home you’d *somehow* have a problem. Too Effin Bad.

Some of your neighbors are legally consuming and doing so without police harassement. This includes folks you would deem ‘undesirable’. Huzzah!

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Anonymous wrote:I was on the road behind someone smoking pot. We ended up stopped at a light in front of a gas station. I was behind him in the next lane over. Someone was trying to exit the gas station so the pot smoker backed up right into the car behind him to make room. The car that was hit was honking his horn to get his attention. I asked the driver if he was ok and he said he had a dash cam that had recorded not only what had just happened but the entire trip down the road where the high driver was clearly driving erratically. I would love to know what happened and if the hit driver would have been charged as a rear end if he had not recorded the incident.
Montgomery county has realized they have made a huge mistake allowing people to smoke and drive because they just hired an agency to educate the public on using weed safely.

Total straight up lie. Nobody is allowed to be impaired while driving. Period.

What’s been defined as “impaired”? A certain amount of cannabis in their system? Is it against the law to smoke while driving altogether?

Hasn’t been defined yet.

https://wtop.com/local/2023/04/new-md-law-prevents-law-enforcement-from-using-smell-test-for-marijuana-dui-investigation/

You can be arrested for failing a field sobriety test, but not for a smell or any specific blood test measurement.

Oh that’s clear as mud

If a trained officer can’t even tell if you’re impaired after performing multiple sobriety tests then there is no valid reason to suspect that the driver is impaired. That’s basic logic. On what basis should a driver who is not behaving impaires be detained?

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Anonymous wrote:I was on the road behind someone smoking pot. We ended up stopped at a light in front of a gas station. I was behind him in the next lane over. Someone was trying to exit the gas station so the pot smoker backed up right into the car behind him to make room. The car that was hit was honking his horn to get his attention. I asked the driver if he was ok and he said he had a dash cam that had recorded not only what had just happened but the entire trip down the road where the high driver was clearly driving erratically. I would love to know what happened and if the hit driver would have been charged as a rear end if he had not recorded the incident.
Montgomery county has realized they have made a huge mistake allowing people to smoke and drive because they just hired an agency to educate the public on using weed safely.

Total straight up lie. Nobody is allowed to be impaired while driving. Period.

What’s been defined as “impaired”? A certain amount of cannabis in their system? Is it against the law to smoke while driving altogether?

Hasn’t been defined yet.

https://wtop.com/local/2023/04/new-md-law-prevents-law-enforcement-from-using-smell-test-for-marijuana-dui-investigation/

You can be arrested for failing a field sobriety test, but not for a smell or any specific blood test measurement.

Oh that’s clear as mud

If a trained officer can’t even tell if you’re impaired after performing multiple sobriety tests then there is no valid reason to suspect that the driver is impaired. That’s basic logic. On what basis should a driver who is not behaving impaires be detained?

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Anonymous wrote:I was on the road behind someone smoking pot. We ended up stopped at a light in front of a gas station. I was behind him in the next lane over. Someone was trying to exit the gas station so the pot smoker backed up right into the car behind him to make room. The car that was hit was honking his horn to get his attention. I asked the driver if he was ok and he said he had a dash cam that had recorded not only what had just happened but the entire trip down the road where the high driver was clearly driving erratically. I would love to know what happened and if the hit driver would have been charged as a rear end if he had not recorded the incident.
Montgomery county has realized they have made a huge mistake allowing people to smoke and drive because they just hired an agency to educate the public on using weed safely.

Total straight up lie. Nobody is allowed to be impaired while driving. Period.

What’s been defined as “impaired”? A certain amount of cannabis in their system? Is it against the law to smoke while driving altogether?

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Anonymous wrote:I was on the road behind someone smoking pot. We ended up stopped at a light in front of a gas station. I was behind him in the next lane over. Someone was trying to exit the gas station so the pot smoker backed up right into the car behind him to make room. The car that was hit was honking his horn to get his attention. I asked the driver if he was ok and he said he had a dash cam that had recorded not only what had just happened but the entire trip down the road where the high driver was clearly driving erratically. I would love to know what happened and if the hit driver would have been charged as a rear end if he had not recorded the incident.
Montgomery county has realized they have made a huge mistake allowing people to smoke and drive because they just hired an agency to educate the public on using weed safely.

Total straight up lie. Nobody is allowed to be impaired while driving. Period.

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Exactly. These complainers don’t even know the laws. I laugh at them while I light my legal blunt at home. Look at them seethe.

NP. I have to chime in here. I just need to say this - as someone who has enjoyed marijuana on occasion - seek help. You are too invested in your love of a substance. Marijuana, like any other drug, has downsides. Stop acting like a moron and try to see both sides of the issue. Surely you learned critical thinking skills somewhere along the way, right? Perhaps if you stopped smoking so much you’ll be able to think straight.