Carrying weed in your car....

ridindirty777, it sounds like you get pulled over waaay too much. Either something about the way you drive gets their attention (like driving too damn fast), or their are just way too many cops in your town who ain't got shit to do.

A good driver *DOESN'T* toke and drive. If you want to stay out of trouble, KEEP THE WEED OUT OF THE VEHICLES!!!!!!!!!!!

Anything you do outside of the privacy of your own home is subject to scruteny.

If you insist on transporting *ANY* weed, lock it in the trunk, and go directly from point A to your home, get it out of the vehicle, and take it inside. Toking while driving is INSANE and a real good way to get yourself and/or an innocent killed or injured.

Think about driving down a street while impared, and a 3 or 4 year old jumps out in front of you from inbetween a couple of parked cars, and you couldn't react in time because you were blazed.... Could you live with the knowledge that you killed a child because you were stoned??

Use your head for something other than a hat rack.

MS, I hate to play Devil's Advocate, but most people are smart enough not to smoke in their cars in heavily populated public places (of course, there still are some idiots who choose to); if a 3 or 4 year old jumped out in front of your car while you were changing the radio station, talking on your cell phone, sneezing, coughing, or even checking your blind spot to change lanes, your judgement would still be impaired, and your reflexes would be slowed. No one sober constantly expects a child to run out in front of them, so that's a poor example.

Anecdotally, my reaction time after smoking a bit is very similar, if not more enhanced than if I were sober (I am very cautious), and I don't drive stoned through areas with a lot of children.

And if you're going to transport weed, do it Sunday pre-noon, you're much less likely to get caught then...

ridindirty i agree, most of the time if you look like you're calm and know what you're doing people don't know you're up to something. and not driving like an asshole won't get you pulled over. from my experiences with getting pulled over and getting caught doing illegal things by the police i find that if you're compliant and not an asshole they will let you off easy. though i do understand not everyone's story goes this way. i once got pulled over doing 70 in a 45 and i was so nice to the cop that he wrote the ticket saying that i was going 51. he said in order for him to be able to write a ticket i would have to be going 6 over the limit. i was graceful because i know that saved me a bunch of money :cool:

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Originally Posted by Cannab!s

Test after test has shown that driving while stoned creates from little to NO impairment.

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Wrong answer.... if your driving stoned, you are *ALREADY* under the influence and impared. Not just in reflexes but in judgement also.

Ya driving stoned or smoking up while your driving is just ASKING for trouble. Keep the smoking to your house or a weed friendly friends house.

I grew up in small town where we would daily get pulled over for one mile over the limit (bullshit right) well we figured out if we treat the cop just like they treat you it always went real well. If they were bein real nice so would we but that was rare. If they were bein assholes we wouldnt be very nice either but most of all show them respect and know your rights. And if they try to accuse you of somthing you didnt do tell them (with respect) that there fuckin wrong. I still get pulled over alot but only because of the cars i drive (its gotta be real fast) and nowadays it usually ends up with the cop sittin in the car askin how much they can buy it for(gotta love american muscle cars). Oh yeah the faster you can get out there the better dont ask any questions and dont get upset and cry or yell that only makes it take longer and pisses them off.

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Originally Posted by Cannab!s

Do you mean 'impaired'? Because i'm typing this stoned right now and my spell checker's not sounding any alarms, that i'm 'impaired'.

Regardless: whether you're "impared" or not -
YOU'RE WRONG.

Anti marijuana shills have been spinning this lie for years and it's simply not true. Judgment gets BETTER when people are stoned, and is a curiosity often commented on by testers on the subject. Stoned drivers who have smoked a WHOLE JOINT are MORE cautious than other drivers, particularly drivers who have had as little as A SINGLE GLASS OF WINE. "Under certain test conditions, the way alcohol and cannabis combine to affect driving behavior suggests that someone who has taken both may drive less recklessly than a person who is simply drunk".


Even with the highest dose of THC, impairment was relatively minor - comparable to that with blood-alcohol concentrations of between .03 and .07 % (That means NOT LEGALLY IMPAIRED) and many legal medications. Drivers under the influence of marijuana also tended to decrease their speed and approach other cars more cautiously. While recognizing some limitations of this study, the authors conclude that "THC is not a profoundly impairing drug."

"There was no evidence of any increase in the likelihood of being culpable for automobile crashes amongst those injured drivers in whom cannabinoids were detected. ... Their culpability rates were no higher than those for the drug free group."

Marijuana's effects on driving performance were compared to those of many other drugs. It was concluded that THC's effects after doses up to 300 mcg / kg never exceed alcohol's at BAC's of 0.08 g %; (THAT MEANS NOT LEGALLY IMPAIRED)and were in no way unusual compared to many medicinal drugs'.

The results to date of crash culpability studies have failed to demonstrate that drivers with cannabinoids in the blood are significantly more likely than drug-free drivers to be culpable in road crashes. â?¦ In cases in which THC was the only drug present were analyzed, the culpability ratio was found to be not significantly different from the no-drug group

So what that means is that your anti-marijuana lobby stance - "It's dangerous, you're going around impaired in skills and judgement" conflicts with those and a dozen other studies that show the EXACT SAME THING. The ONLY people who LIE - and say smoking pot makes you a dangerous driver are the anti-marijuana lobby. Nobody - but nobody- HAS EVER found marijuana an impairment of statistical significance except the anti marijuana lobby, exclusively. Period.

So you can relax with the ''you're gonna kill a little girl'' scare tactic routine, because those of us who know better - KNOW better. And, have the worldwide experts in transportation, and drug testing to back it up.

If you're going to come onto an international Cannabis forum and start ''telling people about it'', at least tell the truth.

Not Harry Anslinger, and the D.E.A's and the Drug Czar's 'version' of ''the truth.' What you are telling, is the anti-marijuana lobby's version of "the truth".

And we've already seen their ''version''. And it's flat out NOT - the truth.

The kind of lies you're telling is what gets those of us who actually DO know the facts about pot - DO put in the hours and years of research to find out - are qualified to talk about marijuana - complete with our college educations, and well balanced, RESPONSIBLE lives - put into JAIL. By people ''promoting responsibility".

By people like you. Spare us your brand of ''responsible usage'' till you know what it is you're talking about.

Come to the marijuana community and lobby for "us'' when you know what you're talking about. We've already had all the ''help'' we need from the ''OMG YOU'RE GONNA KILL SOMEBODY ! !" "REEFER MADNESS'' coalition.

People like you who want to ''promote being responsible'' are the kind of people who are ''responsible'' all right -for MILLIONS over the last half century and more - going to JAIL... because YOU want to be an EXPERT about something you know NOTHING about; and don't PLAN to learn about because ''you're busy''.

Being an ''expert''.

RESPONSIBLE PEOPLE leave the ''Responsible advice'' to the people qualified to talk about it.

If those who were all about ''being RESPONSIBLE" would have let the RESPONSIBLE people SPEAK, we wouldn't all be in this Horror story DEBACLE of FAKE CRIME, made up by FAKE EXPERTS anyway.

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OK, let me ask you some questions.... How many years have you been toking??
I have probably been toking longer than you have been on this earth (30+ years)
You can spout all of the studies you want that say that your not impaired when your stoned... please show me *ANY* that have been proven by a recognized medical community such as the AMA that your motor skills and mental processes are NOT impaired, and I will believe it.

You appear to be an expert on the subject, now prove it.

FWIW, I do expect to see weed legalized *someday*, and I also expect to see it with the same laws, rules, and regulations as alcohol. To do otherwise is just plain foolish. Its not anti-marijuana, its just plain common sense.

I have been pulled over with weed over three times. One time on my way home from a metalica concert at about 12:00am. The cops were at corner of my block busting a house, I was driveing by when they asked me to stop. They searched my car and found a oz. Another time i got caught steeling cars in LAX airport parking lot. I had about a quarter oz. And yet another time i was on my way home from just picking up a lb. They called two other cars and showed off my weed. And another time i was high on coke and got pulled over. I only had about a gram.
Every time the cops were cool. I never run or lie to them i always let them search my car and treat them with respect. They have always given my smoke back to me and told me to go home.
I do belive that police profile people even after they have pulled them over. I am a white guy with glass i look like a computer geek. No one ever thinks i smoke pot so the cops are cool with me. I have friends with long hair and lots of tats they never get away with anything.

My stupid bro just got a ticket for having a nick in his ash tray. Apparently they played some word game and asked "do you have any weed on you" and "can we search your car" in the same sentence and he said yes (I don't see why his stupid ass told them he had weed anyway) so they searched his car and busted him for possession and transporting of marijuana.

Is that legal? Isn't there some minimum limit (something above .25 grams?) to get busted for transporting or something?