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Oh I'm definitely not saying that I'm a fan of people who drive after smoking. Quite the opposite. I don't know how people handle it, the paranoia must be legit.

I'm just saying that I'm not sure that the concerns that Stoned drivers are going to become some big problem are founded on anything besides a lack of understanding. People equate it to drinking when the effects are so much different. All of the things that cause people to drive after drinking like over-confidence and underestimating their impairment are opposite when you smoke marijuana (from my experience). It's almost like a safety net. You're very aware that you're not in good shape to do certain things.

But then again like you said, some people feel perfectly fine driving stoned, my original point was that it doesn't seem like these people are getting caught very frequently, either by checkstops or getting caught driving poorly or causing an accident. So either they're driving and behavior is actually fine like they claim even though they smoked or the police is choosing not tell us about all of the Marijuana related DUI's for some reason. If you consider my first point in this post I think that leads me to believe it's the former. People who smoke know in what shape they are and what they can and can't do.

But this is all just anecdotal experience from myself and people I know. Maybe I'm out to lunch and someone will come here with figures demonstrating that there are lots of Marijuana related DUI's and I'll happily admit I'm wrong.