thestandard said:
poll is insufficient. I do NOT smoke & drive. However, I drive high all the time. Have for years and years
Sorry about that. I think I could have set it up more efficiently. Your situation is sort of covered under "Highways, don't smoke in vehicle" but not exactly so.
Interesting results so far. I'm surprised so many are smoking weed while driving around town. That's quite a large extra risk in my opinion. If one of your driving lights goes out, you're in a heap of trouble and for what? You're in town! Smoke at home and then go out!
I worked a gas station years ago, and a rich kid comes pulling in, obviously passes a joint to his friend, they put it out, and come in. I said "you guys should be more careful, you know there is a war going on". They thought I was hilarious.
An MJ buzz might be comparable, very roughly so, to a 2 beer buzz as far as driving is concerned. But then I feel the drunk driving campaigns are more for profit than for protecting people. Two beers is NOT drunk driving for most people. They keep lowering the limit to the point of it no longer being about combatting real drunk driving, which IS a crime of course. They use an extreme, tragic example of a terrible drunk driving accident and say if you have 2 beers, you're a drunk driver and you're just as bad.
Also, and again I'm not defending real inebriated driving, but why the assumption when there is an accident, and one of the drivers had a drink, that the accident occured because of that? It's a scam. $$$
That being said, I think the last time I went out and had 2 beers was over a year ago. What can I say, I have the social life of a Star Trek fan.