[Red Potato Standing By]

Originally Posted by Senator Clay Davis

Actually the statistics are technically correct: Marijuana has not been the cause of any death. If someone gets high and dies from a car accident, they didn't die because they got high, they died because of the car accident. Marijuana was simply a contributing factor, but not why the person died, same as it would be if they drove drunk and died. If you want to argue if they never drove high or drunk they would never have died...thats a theoritical that you cannot actually prove. But when that death goes into statistics, it goes under death from a motor vehicle, not death from alcohol or pot.

With alcohol, death from alcohol poisoning occurs from drinking too much alcohol, so you can attribute that death directly to alcohol. But marijuana on its own cannot cause death. I suppose its speaking in technicalities, but it isn't wrong.

Don't they also keep track of alcohol related car accidents? Kind of as a separate statistic.