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I drive pretty good while high also. I do it just about every day. I never have gotten into an accident and I driven and smoking while on suuny,rainy,dark.busy,rush hours times and never a dent! although I was sober one time and i smahed the back oh my car :S but never happeend high. I wouldent reccomend every one smokes and drives but for me I feal it actually helps for stuff to deal with the frustration of traffic
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I've never liked carrying anything in the car, especially considering a lot of places auto book you for just para. I know in NC when I was living there it was required that if you had a pipe, bong, papers, etc...that you had to also be carrying a can of tobacco. So if there are other laws like that, what's to stop you from rigging the canister of tobacco to have a bottom third of it blocked off and usable for your stuff while having actual tobacco on top? I think it could work. But I'm not sure of the GA laws regarding paraphernalia.
Also, ship yourself something in a box and then carry it in the car after it arrives back to you, then carry the box in your car with your stuff SEALED inside it. If you get stopped, they can't open the box without federal authorities approval and warrants because the mail is a Federal Offense. Most city and county cops aren't going to call in the FBI because you smell like marijuana, so I would feel relatively safe in carrying anything this way.
But the number 1 safety rule, like others have said, is when transporting your hobby is when you're breaking one law, don't break another.
This is kinda funny.I have been driving for a long time, far before I got a license.
I used to think you only needed one when you got pulled over.
I have only been pulled over once for driving like an idiot, my fault~I have been kinda a pot head since I was 13 and now im fixing to turn 25 the 19th of this month,that sucks lol.
Anyway I used to drive about 40 miles to a friends house everyday and drive the same distance home.I drove down a highway that is known for people carryin stuff.99.9% of the time I was either stoned on my way there or on my way back, most of the time both.
Where im from people on the road are about as smart as chewing on a grenade without a pin, I avoided so many collisions and stuff laying in the road(mostly tires) and the reason I was able to do this, is because im already very cautious when I drive but when I drive stoned I seem to be always ready and waiting for something to challenge me on the road.
I drive still to this day stoned all the time, it's better than driving tired.
My reaction time is better or the exact same when im stoned.I also have a kicker to this though,my 3 buddies and I spent alot of time "playing" on the roads.So we have some experiance.
LOL, I live in the country and you all know that there is not much around but gravel roads and deserted streets that are usually very very dead!
Sometimes we get stoned and go about 15 miles lol to get gas,just to drive around and handbrake it.
I have a new friend here that my girlfriend is ken to,I am trying to help him on his driving.
HE NEEDS IT! I will see if I can post the video!
lol smashed
Cannib!s,
Yes I served in the CG for 22 years, and I EARNED every penny of my pension by putting my life at risk to save others, and no that doesn't mean that I agree with the laws. Yes I took part in 2 busts on the west coast....the only reason they got busted is because they were stoopid. While were are on the subject of what I did or didn't do while I was in the service, I personally saved 6 lives, and rescued hundreds of others and saved untold millions of dollars in property, I was also a pollution investigator in New Orleans riding herd on big oil and chemical companies to clean up their messes, and keep them from making more, I have also been on ice breakers when we went to the Arctic and Antacrtic for scientific expidition support, and then there were all of the fisheries busts for fisher/processors in US waters (200 mile limit). If your going to try to give me a hard time because I had to do my job, and had a hand in 2 drug busts, then you need to get the rest of the story.
I *DON'T* agree with driving while under the influence...PERIOD. What you do in the privacy of your own home is your own business, but what you do in public is another story.
You can spout off all you want, but that doesn't change the simple facts that driving while toking and/or driving while stoned, YOU ARE STILL DRIVING WHILE IMPAIRED!!!!
Every time you or anybody else drives while impaired, your not only putting yourself at risk, but also everybody else around you.
Alcohol is legal, do you want all the laws lifted so everybody can drink and drive with impunity??
You want weed legalized.... what laws, regulations and restrictions would *YOU* have on it?? At what age do you figure people should be able to drive stoned?? Do you really want to be on the road with a bunch of other folks that are driving while stoned?? At what age do you figure people shoule be able to walk in a store and buy a pack of weed?? Sure you can grow for personal use, but is it going to worth it when it might only cost $20 for a pack of joints, and $19.50 of that is taxes? (FWIW without the taxes, a quard of Jack Daniels is only $2.50)
When your 50+ years old, and have a little more of lifes experiences under your belt, then come talk to me.
Buy the way child, are you just here to try to stir up sh*t?? I am assuming that you are a child because you have not said *ANYTHING* about -your- age, what you do for a living, or any of -your- lifes experiences. Care to enlighten me??
Cannab!s,
I've driven with new smokers and older smokers alike and have had some close calls. If you ever want marijuana to become illegal why not just accept that you will not being able to drive stoned legally? I don't care if you smoke and drive or not but you only hinder "your cause" by getting high and driving. Driving needs attention and SOMETIMES when stoned SOME people's attention can get drawn to other stuff pretty easily. Friends, and music as examples. I don't like people talking on cell phones and driving for the same reason.
Now I know YOUR like superman when your stoned but not every one gets those powers. Your examples even call it being "Impaired"!
"A single glass of wine will impair your driving more than smoking a joint. And under certain test conditions, the complex 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."
If you just accept reasonable and safe limits for legal marijuana smoking it maybe other people will also. Your hurting the cause for the decriminalization of marijuana not Mississippi.
Lazysmokin420 Sick video! That will play a role in the future for me if i run into Johnny Law! I love this site and everyone here.:jointsmile:
Driving while high is extremely easy...it's common knowledge that you can function regularly on marijuana. I suppose if I smoked a half oz and tried to drive, I'd be pretty well fucked...but that would be ridiculous.
Comparing marijuana to alcohol in terms of how it effects your driving performance is a HORRIBLE analogy.
Let me ask you this. When you're high in a place where you could be caught and face some consequences (ie. work, on the road, in public, at your parents house) aren't you paranoid? It's a common side-effect of marijuana. When you're driving stoned, you're paranoid. You're more alert. You're looking out for cops, people, cars, speed limit signs, ANYTHING that will get you in trouble.
Now I'm not saying that marijuana usage makes anybody a better driver, and I do believe that some people probably shouldn't drive high, but that's not the case in ALL people. In my case, I drive perfectly fine when I'm stoned. No trouble what so ever. I drive right at the speed limit, I take crazy ass routes through neighborhoods and don't get lost, hell...there's no problem at all.
On the original topic though. This video shows some great examples of how to deal with cops... YouTube - BUSTED: The Citizen's Guide to Surviving Police Encounters
anyone who insists pot won't affect motor coordination and judgement is like the tobacco pipe smoker who claims they won't get any cancer from it.
don't carry in your car or drive while high. despite what you think your reflexes and reasoning are slower and you can be as bad as a drunk driver depending on how much or what you smoked. i've had shit barely touch me but I've had the pleasure of some joints that were like a full blown PCP trip and I still thought I was functional. right before I pissed all over myself trying to take a leak.
and once you do get in an accident you'll fuck it up for the rest of us. now I don't think hitting a joint once or twice and taking a drive is as bad as even 2 beers. but people who are drunk/stoned *think* they are more functional than they are.
don't carry in your car - it isn't worth it. buy it - smoke it, grow it at home and chances are you'll never get caught for any of it.
call me unhip or whatever but i once left people in the middle of a city for bringing shit in my car to a concert. I told them that it is cool to do whatever once we get there, or long before we leave, but not to bring even a leaf in my car as crossing state lines with any substantial amount would have been serious trouble. they didn't respect that so I left their asses there.
your license isn't worth it. and your friend's sure isn't.