Re:Can Marijuana Save California's Economy?
by gnaritas on Sunday March 15, 2009 @12:19AM
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> Sure we do. Almost every country has a legal definition of sobriety when it comes to alcohol.
No we don't. We don't have a max daily allowance of alcohol, you can drink all you want, you just can't drive. No one will stop you from drinking yourself to death if you so choose. You can walk into any store sober and buy enough alcohol to kill 20 people and no one will stop you.
> It's very hard to determine how stoned a person is and whether or not it's even affecting their motor skills or judgement.
If you can't figure out if someone is stoned and they can pass the field sobriety tests administered by the police, then who care if they're driving.
This idea that you need some quick way to test for a particular drug because someone might drive while on it is just absurd. We take all kinds of drugs, legally, that are much worse than pot and no one screams about driving on it.
Alcohol is particularly problematic because it affects your judgment center and makes you do stupid think like drive when you should otherwise know you can't. Pot doesn't do that.
No we don't. We don't have a max daily allowance of alcohol, you can drink all you want, you just can't drive. No one will stop you from drinking yourself to death if you so choose. You can walk into any store sober and buy enough alcohol to kill 20 people and no one will stop you.
> It's very hard to determine how stoned a person is and whether or not it's even affecting their motor skills or judgement.
If you can't figure out if someone is stoned and they can pass the field sobriety tests administered by the police, then who care if they're driving.
This idea that you need some quick way to test for a particular drug because someone might drive while on it is just absurd. We take all kinds of drugs, legally, that are much worse than pot and no one screams about driving on it.
Alcohol is particularly problematic because it affects your judgment center and makes you do stupid think like drive when you should otherwise know you can't. Pot doesn't do that.