Effects of drunk driving are much worse.
marijuana and scromiting
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Effects of drunk driving are much worse.
glorydaz
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speaking of buying it
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do the legal pot shops do free samples ?
I don't know, but we have so many home growers around here I don't know who would go to those pot shops.
I guess those who don't know about the 12 hour dark cycle. :chuckle:
way 2 go
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way 2 go
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a pothead with the equivalent usage of an alcoholic
the pothead is going to be the loser
people can have 1 drink & drive
potheads think they can smoke dope & drive and they kill people
Colorado's transportation department after a 2014 study revealed a disturbing statistic: 43 percent of the state's marijuana users didn't know it was illegal to drive under the drug's influence.
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from your link
A summary of 11 of these case-control studies showed that 9 of the studies found no significant relationship between alcohol use and AD, 1 found that alcohol use increased the risk, and 1 found that alcohol use decreased the risk of Alzheimer's Disease
CONCLUSIONS
Although it is biologically plausible that drinking increases the risk of AD, epidemiologic studies have not supported this hypothesis. Currently, no strong evidence suggests that alcohol use influences the risk of developing Alzheimer's Disease
"Teen alcohol use kills 4,300 people each year – that’s more than all illegal drugs combined." -- https://www.madd.org/statistics/
Sobriety is obviously the optimal state of mind, but by any standard of measure, wherever it can be said that pot is bad alcohol is much worse.
"Epidemiological studies have been inconclusive regarding whether cannabis use causes an increased risk of accidents; in contrast, unanimity exists that alcohol use increases crash risk." -- http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1080/10550490902786934/full
What do you consider to be "equivalent usage"?
Sounds like they need to be educated.
Also from my link: "Some of the detrimental effects of heavy alcohol use on brain function are similar to those observed with Alzheimer's disease (AD). Although alcohol use may be a risk factor for AD, it is difficult to study this relationship because of similarities between alcoholic dementia and AD..."
Also you missed the post about marijuana being used to treat and prevent Alzheimer's:
"Here, we demonstrate that the active component of marijuana, Delta9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), competitively inhibits the enzyme acetylcholinesterase (AChE) as well as prevents AChE-induced amyloid beta-peptide (Abeta) aggregation, the key pathological marker of Alzheimer's disease." -- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17140265
Sort of puts things in perspective, doesn't it?
way 2 go
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don't worry dope will surpass alcohol , just give it time .
fatal crashes up 145 percent — from 47 in 2013 to 115 in 2016
glorydaz
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That "Reefer Madness" message has been the same for years, but more and more people are finding that message to be a total exaggeration. My own folks (old school trucker rednecks) had to change their stance on pot once they actually tried it.
Unfortunately, dad preferred his drink...the pot just didn't give him the buzz he liked so much.
Your own source states: "Authorities say the numbers cannot be definitively linked to legalized pot".
Meanwhile:
When it comes to impaired driving, alcohol remains the biggest threat. A third of all drivers who die in crashes in the U.S. have a blood alcohol concentration (BAC) of 0.08 percent or higher. That proportion hasn’t budged since 1994. Nearly 7,000 deaths could have been prevented in 2015 if all drivers were below the legal limit, IIHS estimates. “The battle against alcohol-impaired driving isn’t won,” says Adrian Lund, IIHS president...“Among all drugs, alcohol is still the biggest contributor to fatal crashes,” Lund says. -- http://www.iihs.org/externaldata/srdata/docs/sr5204.pdf
The negative effects of alcohol are far worse than the negative effects of marijuana.
From the Washington Post:
A new study from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration finds that drivers who use marijuana are at a significantly lower risk for a crash than drivers who use alcohol. And after adjusting for age, gender, race and alcohol use, drivers who tested positive for marijuana were no more likely to crash than who had not used any drugs or alcohol prior to driving.
The chart above tells the story. For marijuana, and for a number of other legal and illegal drugs including antidepressants, painkillers, stimulants and the like, there is no statistically significant change in the risk of a crash associated with using that drug prior to driving. But overall alcohol use, measured at a blood alcohol concentration (BAC) threshold of 0.05 or above, increases your odds of a wreck nearly seven-fold.
The study's findings underscore an important point: that the measurable presence of THC (marijuana's primary active ingredient) in a person's system doesn't correlate with impairment in the same way that blood alcohol concentration does. The NHTSA doesn't mince words: "At the current time, specific drug concentration levels cannot be reliably equated with a specific degree of driver impairment."
You can read more at the source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...new-federal-data-show/?utm_term=.ab49f62ca9f7
A new study from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration finds that drivers who use marijuana are at a significantly lower risk for a crash than drivers who use alcohol. And after adjusting for age, gender, race and alcohol use, drivers who tested positive for marijuana were no more likely to crash than who had not used any drugs or alcohol prior to driving.
The chart above tells the story. For marijuana, and for a number of other legal and illegal drugs including antidepressants, painkillers, stimulants and the like, there is no statistically significant change in the risk of a crash associated with using that drug prior to driving. But overall alcohol use, measured at a blood alcohol concentration (BAC) threshold of 0.05 or above, increases your odds of a wreck nearly seven-fold.
The study's findings underscore an important point: that the measurable presence of THC (marijuana's primary active ingredient) in a person's system doesn't correlate with impairment in the same way that blood alcohol concentration does. The NHTSA doesn't mince words: "At the current time, specific drug concentration levels cannot be reliably equated with a specific degree of driver impairment."
You can read more at the source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...new-federal-data-show/?utm_term=.ab49f62ca9f7
way 2 go
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he is experimenting on himself to see if he can prevent getting Alzheimer's disease
taking one for the team
In fact I have hardly ever smoked the stuff. But here is another fun fact for you! Quote:
Pre–recreational marijuana legalization annual changes in motor vehicle crash fatality rates for Washington and Colorado were similar to those for the control states. Post–recreational marijuana legalization changes in motor vehicle crash fatality rates for Washington and Colorado also did not significantly differ from those for the control states.
Conclusions. Three years after recreational marijuana legalization, changes in motor vehicle crash fatality rates for Washington and Colorado were not statistically different from those in similar states without recreational marijuana legalization. Future studies over a longer time remain warranted.
Source: http://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/abs/10.2105/AJPH.2017.303848
way 2 go
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musterion
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Heh.
Well it's true. I've only puffed on the stuff a dozen times or so in my entire life.
way 2 go
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Legalized recreational marijuana use in Colorado, Oregon and Washington correlates to about a 3 percent increase in auto collision claim frequencies compared to states without such legislation
Colorado saw the largest estimated increase in claim frequency -- 14 percent more than its bordering states, while Washington state was 6 percent greater and Oregon had a 4 percent increase
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/legal-pot-and-car-crashes-yes-theres-a-link/
Colorado saw the largest estimated increase in claim frequency -- 14 percent more than its bordering states, while Washington state was 6 percent greater and Oregon had a 4 percent increase
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/legal-pot-and-car-crashes-yes-theres-a-link/
