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originally posted by: olaru12
originally posted by: nwtrucker
originally posted by: Flesh699
As a trucker, which would you rather have on the road? Pot smokers or drunk people?
I mean, it's really a no brainer. Where's your thread about alcohol?
Neither.
Your main drug concern with OTRT should be meth and you know it!
You know what's going on when you see the Esclades and Hummers cruzing around the Loves and Little America.
This link, seems to me, is an almost inevitable result and difficult to argue against.
originally posted by: nwtrucker
originally posted by: ConscienceZombie
Complete at total hogwash. People are more prone to drive under the influence of weed because cops don't have a breathalyzer for it...really. That's what stops drunks from doing it?
I'm not going to argue the fact that smoking while driving is just plain stupid. Like drinking and driving. And of course accidents will increase because now more stupid people can get their hands on the god given plant and make even more stupid choices.
To put weed on such a bad light because of a 3% rise in accidents is completely ludicrous and a waste of money for proving the inevitable.
The benefits of making this plant legal out weighs by # tonnes.
Your first para says hogwash. Yet you say you won't argue the fact against smoking and driving. 3%? What percentile do you think smoke and drive? Or mix drugs while driving? Likely that 3% is a fairly accurate percentile of those that do 'smoke and drive'.
I have, in fact mixed a doobie and booze....ONCE, many decades back, and to this day, I cannot remember driving that 30 miles.
originally posted by: TerryMcGuire
This link, seems to me, is an almost inevitable result and difficult to argue against.
You will make the attempt, however:
Nice attempt to shut down discussion trucker. Deride opposing positions even before they are posted.
But how about this simplistic reply.
Drinking and driving is illegal. Fact
Smoking and driving is illegal. Fact.
It is the law breakers that cause the problems you are concerned about.
originally posted by: RomeByFire
originally posted by: nwtrucker
originally posted by: Flesh699
As a trucker, which would you rather have on the road? Pot smokers or drunk people?
I mean, it's really a no brainer. Where's your thread about alcohol?
Neither.
Then why complain about what FREE and CONSENTING adults do with their resources, in their home, with their body, in their home?
originally posted by: PublicOpinion
a reply to: kurthall
I loved to do just a little pot on closed tracks. Drifts like a fcking charme, this whole policy is absolute nonsense. Every IPhone slave has more issues that your slightly stoned, but still focused driver.
That's actually a no-brainer as well and part of the deal by now. Here in Germany they don't even sue you anymore when the THC level is low enough for officials to see, that you didn't have any within the last 12 hours. Just happened to a friend of mine, who said that the police officer himself was embarrassingly annoyed about the whole ordeal. How funny is that?
originally posted by: openyourmind1262
To sum this up quick.......I have never in my life heard of "Medical Alcohol" But I sure as hell have heard of medical marijuana ( Cannabis ) that has helped thousands if not millions world wide. Israel leads the way in this research, have since the 70's. And at last look, alcohol does not just grow out of the ground and is not known to grow on every continent except The Arctic . Alcohol is manmade, Cannabis is nature made. I myself will take nature over man every damn time. I'm in the slow process of dying from ALS...if not for the Cannabis, I would be in a hurt locker, because the pharmaceuticals don't do squat to relieve anything. reply to: nwtrucker
originally posted by: crazyewok
a reply to: nwtrucker
Why should you or the goverment have the right to decide what people put into there bodies?
If they take pot and drive, sure throw the the law book at them.
But if they are in the privacy in there own home then people like you should keep the # away.
Not to mention those that use it for medical reasons.
if in an accident and it is proven one is 'impaired' your insurance is null and void.
originally posted by: crazyewok
a reply to: nwtrucker
Why should you or the goverment have the right to decide what people put into there bodies?
If they take pot and drive, sure throw the the law book at them.
But if they are in the privacy in there own home then people like you should keep the # away.
Not to mention those that use it for medical reasons.
originally posted by: nwtrucker
As a trucker, I have a problem with legalized pot. Not merely yet another drug even more widely consumed, rather the cocktail effect with the plethora of other legal and illegal substances.
Frankly, it's tough enough out there. This link, seems to me, is an almost inevitable result and difficult to argue against.
You will make the attempt, however:
www.ibtimes.com...