The Little Town That Pot Built
Dec 8, 2018 10:19:45 #
Check this out.
From CBS Denver..
Marijuana-related traffic deaths increased 48 percent.
Over 20 percent of all traffic deaths were marijuana related compared to only 10 percent six years ago.
Marijuana-related emergency department visits increased 49 percent.
Marijuana-related hospitalizations increased 32 percent.
Marijuana-related calls to the Rocky Mountain Poison Center increased 100 percent.
Diversion of Colorado marijuana to other states increased 37 percent by vehicle and 427 percent by parcels.
Colorado youth now rank number one in the nation for marijuana use and 74 percent higher than the national average.
Colorado college-age group now rank number one in the nation for marijuana use and 62 percent higher than the national average.
Colorado adults now rank number one in the nation for marijuana use and 104 percent higher than the national average.
From CBS Denver..
Marijuana-related traffic deaths increased 48 percent.
Over 20 percent of all traffic deaths were marijuana related compared to only 10 percent six years ago.
Marijuana-related emergency department visits increased 49 percent.
Marijuana-related hospitalizations increased 32 percent.
Marijuana-related calls to the Rocky Mountain Poison Center increased 100 percent.
Diversion of Colorado marijuana to other states increased 37 percent by vehicle and 427 percent by parcels.
Colorado youth now rank number one in the nation for marijuana use and 74 percent higher than the national average.
Colorado college-age group now rank number one in the nation for marijuana use and 62 percent higher than the national average.
Colorado adults now rank number one in the nation for marijuana use and 104 percent higher than the national average.
Dec 8, 2018 10:23:02 #
Marijuana breathalyzer aims to detect drivers who are still high
USA Today
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.usatoday.com/amp/912705002
USA Today
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.usatoday.com/amp/912705002
Dec 8, 2018 10:57:06 #
olemikey
Loc: 6 mile creek, Spacecoast Florida
We have a drug problem here in Florida - Opioids (prescript stuff), Heroin is big now, Meth, other synthetics, etc. and those are the folks who are dangerous, basically crazed, don't care who or what they hurt (if they even realize they just hurt someone).... MJ is a pretty low level concern, they don't pay much attention to it "unless" it gives them an avenue to a bigger crime, at least that is what a couple law enforcement folks I know tell me. Under 20 grams is a ticket here. I'm more concerned with crazy out-of-state/country (snowbirds and tourists) drivers than anyone smoking some weed..... gave up motorcycling after 55 years because they will kill you/run into you/pull out in front of you/run you off the road and then get out of their vehicle and go "huh, what happened, I didn't see him, what accident, he shouldn't have run into me, etc. etc.."
Overmedicated folks (half daffy to full on nutbags), see them all the time in the grocery store, any public venues......then they get in their cars and drive....now that is epidemic here! (I wish they would just smoke pot, they wouldn't be so "out-of-it").
Anyone who drives under the influence of anything (Alky/Drugs/Medicine/synthetics/etc.) or worse, mixes compounds, is a disaster waiting to happen.
Overmedicated folks (half daffy to full on nutbags), see them all the time in the grocery store, any public venues......then they get in their cars and drive....now that is epidemic here! (I wish they would just smoke pot, they wouldn't be so "out-of-it").
Anyone who drives under the influence of anything (Alky/Drugs/Medicine/synthetics/etc.) or worse, mixes compounds, is a disaster waiting to happen.
Dec 8, 2018 12:31:04 #
I wonder how long before the cigarette manufacturers re-tool their lines to produce filter-tip roaches? How about a contest for the name for the first pack of them....
Back in the day when I smoked, a little machine was available to produce your own cigs, one at a time, filter or regular. At the time I wondered how many roaches were produced. They would have been a mammoth hit!
Back in the day when I smoked, a little machine was available to produce your own cigs, one at a time, filter or regular. At the time I wondered how many roaches were produced. They would have been a mammoth hit!
Dec 8, 2018 12:36:47 #
rpavich wrote:
Wrong again.
It COULD be a motivation, but it doesnt have to be, the motivation can be as simple as fixing the broken system that made it illegal in the first place.
You talk like you’ve never used any nor know anyone who does but have only bought into the “reffer madness” propaganda machine’s bunk
It COULD be a motivation, but it doesnt have to be, the motivation can be as simple as fixing the broken system that made it illegal in the first place.
You talk like you’ve never used any nor know anyone who does but have only bought into the “reffer madness” propaganda machine’s bunk
The system is not broken just because you believe it to be. It is just your belief nothing more.
Dec 8, 2018 12:39:41 #
GeorgeH wrote:
I wonder how long before the cigarette manufacturers re-tool their lines to produce filter-tip roaches? How about a contest for the name for the first pack of them....
Back in the day when I smoked, a little machine was available to produce your own cigs, one at a time, filter or regular. At the time I wondered how many roaches were produced. They would have been a mammoth hit!
Back in the day when I smoked, a little machine was available to produce your own cigs, one at a time, filter or regular. At the time I wondered how many roaches were produced. They would have been a mammoth hit!
Chocolate flavored hemp drinks pretty good
Dec 8, 2018 12:40:53 #
dirtpusher wrote:
An what was this findings.
That ongoing and sustained of pot caused a mental imbalance and lack of choices that are not conducive to correct decisions.
Dec 8, 2018 12:43:14 #
traderjohn wrote:
That ongoing and sustained of pot caused a mental imbalance and lack of choices that are not conducive to correct decisions.
Lol don't accept that at all. It straiting out lot people starting with autisum
Dec 8, 2018 12:52:04 #
ad9mac wrote:
Check this out. br From CBS Denver.. br br br ... (show quote)
Except that I question a lot of things in their statistics, were there any other things involved like alcohol?
How did they know the drivers were impaired from pot?
Federal study that refutes yours, now what?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/02/09/stoned-drivers-are-a-lot-safer-than-drunk-ones-new-federal-data-show/?utm_term=.ba3b2c38b201
Dec 8, 2018 12:52:59 #
traderjohn wrote:
That ongoing and sustained of pot caused a mental imbalance and lack of choices that are not conducive to correct decisions.
More bullcrap from people without a clue.
Dec 8, 2018 12:54:29 #
traderjohn wrote:
The system is not broken just because you believe it to be. It is just your belief nothing more.
It’s not my personal opinion, it’s broken because Cannabis shouldn’t be a schedule one drug. It’s only a schedule one because of Nixon trying to get back at hippies...it was a weapon for him
Don’t let facts get in your way.
Dec 8, 2018 13:00:49 #
And another study showing that drivers who drive high showed no more risk of accidents than those who didnt do anything before driving
https://www.tokeofthetown.com/2012/04/auto_insurance_site_says_marijuana_users_are_safer.php/
“In addition, one study by the U.S. National Highway Transportation Safety Administration shows that drivers with THC in their systems have accident responsibility rates lower than those of drug-free drivers.
“What law enforcement agencies and insurers do not understand is that driving while high is actually a safe activity,” CEO James Shaffer said. “I guess the key to safer driving is to use marijuana, but to do it under wraps.”
https://www.tokeofthetown.com/2012/04/auto_insurance_site_says_marijuana_users_are_safer.php/
“In addition, one study by the U.S. National Highway Transportation Safety Administration shows that drivers with THC in their systems have accident responsibility rates lower than those of drug-free drivers.
“What law enforcement agencies and insurers do not understand is that driving while high is actually a safe activity,” CEO James Shaffer said. “I guess the key to safer driving is to use marijuana, but to do it under wraps.”
Dec 8, 2018 13:05:08 #
Another quote:
“As an auto insurance provider, 4autoinsurancequote.org said that marijuana use can also have an indirect effect on insurance rates. Because of the correlation between marijuana use and lower rates of accident responsibility, they said marijuana users, as a group, can expect in the future to see lower insurance rates than non-marijuana users.”
But hey, dont let reality get in the way of you tightly held assumptions...just bury your head in the sand further and rewatch “reefer madness”
“As an auto insurance provider, 4autoinsurancequote.org said that marijuana use can also have an indirect effect on insurance rates. Because of the correlation between marijuana use and lower rates of accident responsibility, they said marijuana users, as a group, can expect in the future to see lower insurance rates than non-marijuana users.”
But hey, dont let reality get in the way of you tightly held assumptions...just bury your head in the sand further and rewatch “reefer madness”
Dec 8, 2018 13:05:18 #
Dec 8, 2018 13:06:45 #
According to 4autoinsurance.com, the Top 10 reasons marijuana users are safer drivers are as follows:
1. Drivers who had been using marijuana were found to drive slower, according to a 1983 NHTSA study.
2. Marijuana users were able to drive straight and didn’t have trouble staying in their own lanes, according to a 1993 NHTSA study done in the Netherlands. The same study concluded that marijuana had very little effect on overall driving ability.
3. Drivers who had smoked marijuana were less likely to try to pass other cars and were more likely to drive at a steady speed, according to a University of Adelaide study done in Australia. The study showed no danger from marijuana and driving unless the drivers had also been using alcohol.
4. Drivers high on marijuana are less likely to drive recklessly, according to a study done in the United Kingdom in 2000 by the UK Transport Research Lab. The study was actually undertaken to prove that pot impairs driving, but instead it showed the opposite — that stoned drivers were actually safer than many other drivers on the road.
5. States that allow medical marijuana see a reduction in highway fatalities; for instance, Colorado and Montana have had a nine percent drop in traffic deaths and a five percent drop in beer sales.
6. Low doses of marijuana were found to have little affect on the ability to drive a car in a Canadian study in 2002. These drivers were found to be in much fewer car crashes than alcohol users.
7. Most marijuana smokers have fewer crashes because they tend to stay home instead of driving.
8. Marijuana smokers are thought to be more sober drivers; traffic information from 13 of the states where medical cannabis is legal showed that these drivers are actually safer and more careful than many other drivers on the road. These studies were conducted by the University of Colorado and Montana State University, exploring the relationship between legal medical marijuana and deaths in traffic accidents.
9. Multiple studies show that marijuana smokers are less likely to be risk takers than those who use alcohol; the studies showed that marijuana use calmed them down and made them pay more attention.
10. Cannabis smoking drivers were shown to follow other vehicles at safer distances, which made they less likely to cause or have crashes.
“Every test seemed to come up with these same results in all of the countries they were done in,” 4autoinsurance.org concludes. “Even so, insurance companies will still penalize any driver in an accident that has been shown to have been smoking pot, so this doesn’t give drivers free reign to smoke pot and drive.”
1. Drivers who had been using marijuana were found to drive slower, according to a 1983 NHTSA study.
2. Marijuana users were able to drive straight and didn’t have trouble staying in their own lanes, according to a 1993 NHTSA study done in the Netherlands. The same study concluded that marijuana had very little effect on overall driving ability.
3. Drivers who had smoked marijuana were less likely to try to pass other cars and were more likely to drive at a steady speed, according to a University of Adelaide study done in Australia. The study showed no danger from marijuana and driving unless the drivers had also been using alcohol.
4. Drivers high on marijuana are less likely to drive recklessly, according to a study done in the United Kingdom in 2000 by the UK Transport Research Lab. The study was actually undertaken to prove that pot impairs driving, but instead it showed the opposite — that stoned drivers were actually safer than many other drivers on the road.
5. States that allow medical marijuana see a reduction in highway fatalities; for instance, Colorado and Montana have had a nine percent drop in traffic deaths and a five percent drop in beer sales.
6. Low doses of marijuana were found to have little affect on the ability to drive a car in a Canadian study in 2002. These drivers were found to be in much fewer car crashes than alcohol users.
7. Most marijuana smokers have fewer crashes because they tend to stay home instead of driving.
8. Marijuana smokers are thought to be more sober drivers; traffic information from 13 of the states where medical cannabis is legal showed that these drivers are actually safer and more careful than many other drivers on the road. These studies were conducted by the University of Colorado and Montana State University, exploring the relationship between legal medical marijuana and deaths in traffic accidents.
9. Multiple studies show that marijuana smokers are less likely to be risk takers than those who use alcohol; the studies showed that marijuana use calmed them down and made them pay more attention.
10. Cannabis smoking drivers were shown to follow other vehicles at safer distances, which made they less likely to cause or have crashes.
“Every test seemed to come up with these same results in all of the countries they were done in,” 4autoinsurance.org concludes. “Even so, insurance companies will still penalize any driver in an accident that has been shown to have been smoking pot, so this doesn’t give drivers free reign to smoke pot and drive.”
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