Drinking and Driving

[stinkyattic]

I drive better when I have a joint in my hand and takin tokes.

Remeber Cannabis increases your senses, Of sight, touch, smell, taste, and hearing..

...but certainly not your response time.
You just THINK you drive better stoned. Trust me, that's the weed talking.

[Dutch Masta]

I wish more people would understand the dangers of drunk driving. I think one of the main reasons the attempts to educate people on the dangers of it fail so bad, is because in reality it becomes a display of weakness in masculinity, expecially with strong levels of intoxication to influence all these decisions. People aroung here drive drunk like its no big deal around here.

[T®auma]

dont drink and drive, smoke and fly

I like it!

[LazySmoking420]

...but certainly not your response time.
You just THINK you drive better stoned. Trust me, that's the weed talking.

I cant believe I'm getting this from a weed message board.

Has anyone hear driven under weed? All I said is, It isn't as bad as drinking.

I hot box, if that's a cannabis crime, I'm guilty as charged.

[Dutch Masta]

I cant believe I'm getting this from a weed message board.

Has anyone hear driven under weed? All I said is, It isn't as bad as drinking.

I hot box, if that's a cannabis crime, I'm guilty as charged.

I think driving under the influence of marijuana is extremely common. But only because its illegal in the first place, so people are driving around either looking for a place to smoke or blazing in their cars.

But yes, that definitely is a crime! So be careful. Cop pulls you over, the car REEKS of marijuana, you get busted, possiblly get your license suspended, get put on probation, and get drug tests and you get fucked. Not to mention the heavy charges, time, confisgation of weed, and the record that goes along with it. Be smart :thumbsup:

[LazySmoking420]

I think driving under the influence of marijuana is extremely common. But only because its illegal in the first place, so people are driving around either looking for a place to smoke or blazing in their cars.

But yes, that definitely is a crime! So be careful. Cop pulls you over, the car REEKS of marijuana, you get busted, possiblly get your license suspended, get put on probation, and get drug tests and you get fucked. Not to mention the heavy charges, time, confisgation of weed, and the record that goes along with it. Be smart :thumbsup:

The above post is fill with WISDOM! For the most part I cant smoke at my place. I also think people feel safe in their cars. The people that cant find a safe place are better off blazin and "blending in" on the road.

Thanks for the post.

[higher4hockey]

What's the big deal? What's wrong with smoking and driving?

I've smoke and drive everyday. I drive better when I have a joint in my hand and takin tokes.

Remeber Cannabis increases your senses, Of sight, touch, smell, taste, and hearing. Beer is the drug that fucks up all thoughs senses..

So to say she is a hypocrite because she smokes some weed and drives is not a researched comment.

Sure some cannot drive under cannabis but a lot can...It's not a big deal like drinking...

TRUST ME...not even in the same ball park.

not a researched comment eh ? in that case:

evidence shows that the ability to perform complex tasks, such as driving can be strongly impaired while under the influence of marijuana (goldstein 1994; mathias 1996). Research indicates, "cannabis consumption impairs motor coordination, reaction time, sensory perceptions and glare recovery" (Teen challenge 2000, p. 1). This effect has been demonstrated in laboratory assessments of driving-related skills such as eye-hand coordination and reaction time, in driver simulator studies, in test course persformance, and in actual street driving situations (chait and pierri 1992; mathias 1996; teen challenge 2000). Another study tested the effects of known amounts of marijuana, alcohol, or both on driving. the subjects drove a course rigged with various traffic problems. there was a definite deterioration in driving skills among those who had used either drug, but the greatest deterioration was observed in subjects who had taken both. in another test, 59 subjects smoked marijuana until they were intoxicated and then given sobriety tests on the roadside by highway patrol officers. overall, 94% of the subjects did not pass the test 90 minutes after smoking, and 60 % failed at 150 minutes, even though the blood thc was much lower at this time (hollister 1986). other studies on driving show this same inability to drive for as long as 12 to 24 hours after marijuana use.


i'm not saying that drinking and driving is a good thing, but what i am saying , is that if you start out drinking while you're driving, you can tell when you're past the limit of safe driving. just the same with weed, if you start driving when you're smoked out of your gourd its not the same as just taking a few drags.

[jamstigator]

Drinking and driving is what killed my mom. I was in the car too. It was freaking scary, and I have barely spoken to one sister for 30 years because of that night -- she had a date and even though she knew my mom was too drunk to drive, because I told her in case she'd gone blind, she still let us drive off so she wouldn't miss her date.

My mom was swerving into the oncoming lane. I begged her to just pull over, but she ignored me. Hell, she was so fucked up I'm not even sure she HEARD me, even though I was on the verge of screaming. I tried to figure out how to FORCE the car to a stop, safely, from the passenger seat, but I couldn't figure out any way to do it that wouldn't seriously enhance our odds of dying. So, I did the only thing I could, and it saved my life: I crawled into the back seat and started praying.

A few seconds later my mom just veered to the right, off the road. I started really screaming then. I think I screamed 'Moooooooom!', so that was the last thing she heard. The car bounced across a parking lot full of concrete tire stops at around 50 mph then plowed head-on into a wooden telephone pole, cracking it in half and throwing the upper portion halfway across the street. The lower part of the telephone pole, basically a stump, sheered the car down the middle and ended up not far from the back seat area, around where the emergency brake normally is. My mom died instantly, they told me later, the steering wheel embedded in her chest. It crushed her heart, and after the impact I didn't ever again hear her make a sound or move; I think she was gone that fast.

In the back of the car, my mom had kept some cinder blocks to stabilize it in the winter. (It was a 1972 Ford Pinto, incidentally, one of the least safe cars ever built by the human race.) Anyway, the impact threw these cinder blocks forward, and some of those did hit me pretty hard, so I was rather beaten up and bruised, but amazingly nothing was broken. Climbing into the back seat saved my life, absolutely, because the passenger seat in the front, that area was just compressed Pinto after the crash.

The metal frame of the driver seat had bent forward from the impact, and I was too young, small and weak to budge it, but I tried, because I didn't know my mom was dead at that point (although looking at the totally destroyed car, a little voice in my mind said it was probable). Since I couldn't waken my mom, and I couldn't bend the seat back to its normal position to free her, I climbed out of the wreckage.

Passing by, a woman, schoolteacher, saw the accident and she pulled up and got out and came to me. I think SHE knew my mom was dead, but she was calm and gentle and told me to get in her car and she'd get me to a hospital and get help for my mom. I never knew her name, that teacher, because after she got me to the hospital and my family started showing up, she disappeared, like a superhero or something.

Wow, feels good to tell that story once in a while. Sorry for rambling on. I wrote that story once, probably better, for Advanced English Comp in college. My teacher broke down in tears reading it, right in front of the class, just sitting at her desk and crying. Got a good grade for that!

Anyway, drinking and driving is bad...m'kay?

[friendowl]

damn bro
what a story
sobered me up quick

sorry to hear that

[FireyBudBurner]

Seriously I used to delivery Italian food to people ripped off my ass. The paranoia keeps you on the edge of your seat and paying attention. In fact I drive better blazed because I pay much more attention to the road and not everything else. If you have serious delayed reaction time from weed smoking you don't smoke enough to be driving high. Driving high is an absolute non issue for us heavy smokers who can handle it.

Don't get behind the wheel and drive if you get all wacked out on weed once in a blue moon*