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Originally Posted by undercoverbrother
To be honest, I can't see how you can say driving while in an altered state of mind isn't "demonstrably dangerous", heck I reckon if I looked hard enough, I could find a study that says driving while mad is "demonstrably dangerous"
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/...ous-car-crash/ |
Driving mad is very dangerous, much more so than weed:
http://www.apa.org/monitor/jun05/anger.aspx
From your link:
"In addition to the finding that drivers who had recently smoked pot were substantially more likely to be involved in a serious accident, the researchers found that those who had died in these crashes had higher amounts of the drug’s compound tetrahydrocannabinol than those who survived. "
Several articles from NORML site directly refute this:
"The results to date of crash culpability studies have failed to demonstrate that drivers with cannabinoids in the blood are significantly more likely than drug-free drivers to be culpable in road crashes."
"There is no evidence that consumption of cannabis alone increases the risk of culpability for traffic crash fatalities or injuries for which hospitalization occurs, and may reduce those risks."
"In contrast, there was no significant increase in culpability for cannabinoids alone. While a relatively large number of injured drivers tested positive for cannabinoids, culpability rates were no higher than those for the drug free group. This is consistent with other findings.”
If you put a group of experts in a room, they'll never all agree to anything. This article doesn't explain it's data or how it was interpreted very well, so I don't have enough to counter a larger body of evidence. After following this topic for a few years, I've noticed you'll find positive and negative articles, but the bulk majority conclude that there is no real danger, certainly not big to warrant judicial or political intervention.