Marijuana Legalization and Regulation

[AcGold]

I've seen enough friends try to drive, upwards of 20. Their hesitancy before is enough to show they are worse at driving. The anxiety people experience makes them drive slower, change lanes with hesitation and get nervous in intersections. Sure maybe people drive ok in a controlled environment but on a busy road with street lights the majority of people I know are worse drivers because of the increased anxiety. It's common sense really. Anecdotal evidence be damned, common sense is allowed to be evidence in certain straight forward circumstances, this is one of them.

[undercoverbrother]

Originally Posted by AcGold

I've seen enough friends try to drive, upwards of 20. Their hesitancy before is enough to show they are worse at driving. The anxiety people experience makes them drive slower, change lanes with hesitation and get nervous in intersections. Sure maybe people drive ok in a controlled environment but on a busy road with street lights the majority of people I know are worse drivers because of the increased anxiety. It's common sense really. Anecdotal evidence be damned, common sense is allowed to be evidence in certain straight forward circumstances, this is one of them.

I find is enjoyable that you use common sense as your "defence"....

So to be clear, your 20+ friends, maybe as many as 30 provide a good sample size for the "average human".

[MickMcGeough]

Originally Posted by BsFaninCGY

Finally I decided to get back in the game, and luckily, met a great girl in Nov. I quit weed on the spot

Most do. This is what separates marijuana from government-sanctioned drugs like alcohol and nicotine.

[MickMcGeough]

Originally Posted by terminator

Never met a true pot-head who wasn't super paranoid and lazy.

Must be rocking some crap indica.

[AcGold]

Originally Posted by undercoverbrother

I find is enjoyable that you use common sense as your "defence"....

So to be clear, your 20+ friends, maybe as many as 30 provide a good sample size for the "average human".

Enough of a sample size to see that ateast some people get anxious when they drive while high. If it makes some people worse at driving then probably it shouldn't be allowed. Simple enough logic. I'm well versed in the scientific method but it doesn't take peer reviewed articles and 95% correlation to understand that some people drive worse when high.

edit: I anticipate the by that logic then X must be true argument.

[WhiteTiger]

Originally Posted by AcGold

I've seen enough friends try to drive, upwards of 20. Their hesitancy before is enough to show they are worse at driving. The anxiety people experience makes them drive slower, change lanes with hesitation and get nervous in intersections. Sure maybe people drive ok in a controlled environment but on a busy road with street lights the majority of people I know are worse drivers because of the increased anxiety. It's common sense really. Anecdotal evidence be damned, common sense is allowed to be evidence in certain straight forward circumstances, this is one of them.

Some people are anxious before driving, so the solution is to allow them to toke up and then drive?

Sorry, the solution to an anxious driver is to take away their driver's license until they are confident enough to not be anxious, not dope them up until they can probably drive.

[AcGold]

Originally Posted by WhiteTiger

Some people are anxious before driving, so the solution is to allow them to toke up and then drive?

Sorry, the solution to an anxious driver is to take away their driver's license until they are confident enough to not be anxious, not dope them up until they can probably drive.

No that's not what I said at all. How did you take that away from the paragraph? You have it backwards, weed makes people more anxious while driving.

[WhiteTiger]

Originally Posted by AcGold

No that's not what I said at all. How did you take that away from the paragraph? You have it backwards, weed makes people more anxious while driving.

Ah, I see it now. Been a long day, misinterpreted the post.

[polak]

I'd just like restate that you'd be hard pressed to find someone who wants to get off the couch let alone drive a car when they're high enough that they're actually impaired.

If you're willingly up and about while stoned then more than likely your average person probably can't even tell that you're stoned. Including a police officer.