"Combating The Legalization And Normalization Of Marijuana”

There is nothing smart about smart approaches to marijuana. "We don't want to bring back reefer madness".

My reaction: http://masculistman.freewebspace.com/bullshit%20detector.html

Cannabis is legal now and gov controlled. How can it be trusted anymore?

It was illegal as long as it was a natural healer. Now it's been taken control over by the human oppressors. They own the patient's and the profits.

Wake up and stop being so nieve.

Teens are smoking less weed in states where it’s legal
https://news.vice.com/en_us/article/wjzzj9/teens-are-smoking-less-weed-in-states-where-its-legal

DOT HS 808 078 "Marijuana and Actual Driving Performance" Final Report, Nov. 1993

Conclusions on page 108 of the copy I received from the NHTSA are interesting and

informative. A sample : "It is possible to safely study the effects of marijuana on driving on

highways or city streets in the presence of other traffic." "Drivers under the influence of

marijuana tend to over-estimate the adverse effects of the drug on their driving ability and

compensate when they can; e.g. by increasing effort to accomplish the task, increasing headway

or slowing down, or a combination of these."

DOT HS 808 939 "Marijuana, Alcohol and Actual Driving Performance" July 1999 Conclusion

on page 39 midway of paragraph 5.1 of the copy I received: The addition of the new data, (for

marijuana), broadens the range of reactions that may be expected to occur in real life. This range

has not been shown to extend into the area that can rightfully be regarded as dangerous or an

obviously unacceptable threat to public safety. DOT HS 809 020 "Visual Search and Urban City

Driving under the Influence of Marijuana and Alcohol" March 2000: Conclusion 1 on page 24 of

the copy I received. "Low doses of marijuana taken alone, did not impair city driving

performance and did not diminish visual search frequency for traffic at intersections in this

study."

General Discussion on page 22 . Previous on-the-road studies have also demonstrated that

subjects are generally aware of the impairing properties of THC and try to compensate for the

drug's impairing properties by driving more carefully (Hansteen et al, 1976; Casswell, 1979;

Peck et al, 1986; Robbe 1994).

DOT HS 809 642 "State of Knowledge of Drug Impaired Driving" Sept 2003: Experimental

Research of Cannabis, page 41 midway: "The extensive studies by Robbe and O'Hanlon (1993),

revealed that under the influence of Marijuana, drivers are aware of their impairment, and when

experimental tasks allow it, they tend to actually decrease speed, avoid passing other cars, and

reduce other risk-taking behaviors."

DOT HS 808 065 "The Incidence and Role of Drugs in Fatally Injured Drivers" Oct. 1992 In

discussing the "Distribution of Ratings on Driver Responsibility" Table 5.12 page 64 of the copy

I received, paragraph (p.65); "Responsibility, drugs and alcohol, third paragraph, "the following

appears: "Note that the responsibility rates of the THC-only and Cocaine-only groups are

actually lower than that of the drugfree drivers. Although these results too are inconclusive, they

give no suggestion of impairment in the two groups. The low responsibility rate for THC was

reminiscent of that found in young males by Williams and colleagues (1986).” This study is

remarkable in it's propensity to attack itself as inconclusive.

Forensic Science Review Vol. 14, Number One/Two, Jan 2002, surely must be the reference of

note regarding metabolic functions and where the THC goes following ingestion. This review

discuses THC and it's metabolites; THCCOOH, 11-OH-THC to mention the most discussed.

Location and type of measured quantities of these and other metabolites should be easy to use to

determine if a driver is "stoned" or was stoned yesterday, or last week. Mention was made of a

man who had measurable levels of metabolites sixty-seven days after ingesting Cannabis.

Chap IX paragraph D, "Summary" appears to be of two minds. While stating: "Studies

examining Cannabis' causal effect through responsibility analysis have more frequently indicated

that THC alone did not increase accident risk …" it continues optimistically suggesting that

further exhaustive research may rebut that. All of the studies agree that combining Cannabis with

any other drug, such as Alcohol … a major deleterious effect on driving skills, as is benzoates

with Cannabis … it rapidly becomes evident that Cannabis in combination with any number of

other drugs is not to be desired, but that Cannabis and Cocaine alone in all six studies have the

smallest perceived safety risk of all the drugs and drug combinations tested and against drug-free

drivers.

Results

The study showed that a modest dose of alcohol (BAC = 0.034 g%) produced a

significant impairment in city driving, as measured by the molar approach, relative

to a placebo. More specifically, alcohol impaired both vehicle handling and traffic

maneuvers. Marijuana, administered in a dose of 100ʵg/kg THC, on the other

hand, did not significantly change mean driving performance as measured by this

approach. Neither alcohol nor marijuana significantly affected driving performance

measures obtained by the molecular approach, indicating that it may be relatively

insensitive to drug-induced changes. Driving quality, as rated by the subjects,

contrasted with observer ratings.

Alcohol impaired driving performance according to the driving instructor, but

subjects did not perceive it; marijuana did not impair driving performance, but the

subjects themse lves perceived their driving performance as such. Both groups

reported about the same amount of effort in accomplishing the driving test

following a placebo. Yet only subjects in the marijuana group reported

significantly higher levels of invested effort following the active drug. Thus there

is evidence that subjects in the marijuana group were not only aware of their

intoxicated condition, but were also attempting to compensate for it. These seem to

be important findings. They support both the common bel ief that drivers become

overconfident after drinking alcohol and investigators' suspicions that they become

more cautious and self-critical after consuming low doses of THC, as smoked

marijuana.

Yet THC's effects differ qualitatively from many other drugs, especially alcohol.

Evidence from the present and previous studies strongly suggests that alcohol

encourages risky driving whereas THC encourages greater caution, at least in

experiments. Another way THC seems to differ qualitatively from many other

drugs is that the former's users seem better able to compensate for its adverse

effects while driving under the influence.

Marijuana and Driving: A Review of the Scientific Evidence

http://norml.org/index.cfm?Group_ID=5450

In February, the Drug and Alcohol Crash Risk report, produced by the Department of Transportation's National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, found that while drunken driving dramatically increased the risk of getting into an accident, there was no evidence that using marijuana heightened that risk. In fact, after adjusting for age, gender, race and alcohol use, the report found that stoned drivers were no more likely to crash than drivers who were not intoxicated at all.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/02/11/stoned-driving-crash-risk_n_6654810.html

http://articles.courant.com/2012-01-16/business/hc-marijuana-traffic-deaths-0117-20120116_1_medical-marijuana-law-medical-marijuana-fatal-accidents

http://radicalruss.com/flashback-1993-us-govt-stoned-driving-study/

http://www.forbes.com/sites/jacobsullum/2014/04/03/more-pot-safer-roads-marijuana-legalization-could-bring-unexpected-benefits/

http://norml.org/news/2014/04/03/study-higher-thcblood-levels-not-positively-associated-with-greater-fatal-accident-risk

http://www.forbes.com/sites/jacobsullum/2014/03/07/drunk-and-drugged-driving-arrests-fall-in-washington-as-anti-pot-group-warns-that-legalization-undermines-road-safety/

The answer to bad speech is more speech.
Thank you for your work here sir.
Keep it up
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I can't stand Tim Leary and his whole "free swingin" attitude towards gun shops

Thank you!!! It is so important to know how the other side thinks. It’s the only way we will find the middle ground with the rational among them.

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