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Cannabis smokers have less qualms about driving under the influence than drinkers (in my experience) and from an enforcement perspective, it's harder to test fo

Cannabis smokers have less qualms about driving under the influence than drinkers (in my experience) and from an enforcement perspective, it's harder to test for the presence of the drug because it stays in your system much longer (up to a month iirc?).

amanaplanacanal 8y ago
Experience cannabis users are far less impaired than experienced drinkers though. Evidently once you get used to driving under the influence your brain adjusts. It doesn't work that way with alcohol.
- underbluewaters 8y ago
  I tried it for 5 minutes during my college days when I was "experienced" and... no fucking way. Maybe there are people who aren't as impacted but that is a very big and dangerous assumption. Please stop perpetuating this idea unless you have a study to back it up.
  - mcbits 8y ago
    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24411797 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24411797
  - drewmol 8y ago
    There's not a lot of great studies on this but if you look around at the nih.gov link there's plenty of related studies that would support the parent's claim. https://bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1471-2458-11-526 https://bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1... https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29487531 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29487531
chimeracoder 8y ago
> Cannabis smokers have less qualms about driving under the influence than drinkers (in my experience) and from an enforcement perspective, it's harder to test for the presence of the drug because it stays in your system much longer (up to a month iirc?). There are so many substances that people can take that would impair their ability to drive. Many of them are available over the counter. Alcohol is the only one that's tested directly; it's the exception, not the norm.
- wyclif 8y ago
  I learned a lesson about this back when I was a land surveyor doing a lot of public road work and layout years ago. I had to walk a lot, sometimes in thick weeds, on the shoulder of many public roads and highways. In many places in the US at least, there's always at least some litter and much of it was alcohol bottles, needles, and prescription drug bottles. It made me realise how many people drive while drugged on some substance.
watertom 8y ago
Really, I find the opposite to be true. Drinkers will always deny the impact, "I'm fine, I'm not drunk" Where almost everyone I know when stoned usually says, "whoa I'm fucked up."

amanaplanacanal 8y ago

Experience cannabis users are far less impaired than experienced drinkers though. Evidently once you get used to driving under the influence your brain adjusts. It doesn't work that way with alcohol.

underbluewaters 8y ago
I tried it for 5 minutes during my college days when I was "experienced" and... no fucking way. Maybe there are people who aren't as impacted but that is a very big and dangerous assumption. Please stop perpetuating this idea unless you have a study to back it up.
- mcbits 8y ago
  https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24411797 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24411797
- drewmol 8y ago
  There's not a lot of great studies on this but if you look around at the nih.gov link there's plenty of related studies that would support the parent's claim. https://bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1471-2458-11-526 https://bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1... https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29487531 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29487531

chimeracoder 8y ago

> Cannabis smokers have less qualms about driving under the influence than drinkers (in my experience) and from an enforcement perspective, it's harder to test for the presence of the drug because it stays in your system much longer (up to a month iirc?). There are so many substances that people can take that would impair their ability to drive. Many of them are available over the counter. Alcohol is the only one that's tested directly; it's the exception, not the norm.

wyclif 8y ago
I learned a lesson about this back when I was a land surveyor doing a lot of public road work and layout years ago. I had to walk a lot, sometimes in thick weeds, on the shoulder of many public roads and highways. In many places in the US at least, there's always at least some litter and much of it was alcohol bottles, needles, and prescription drug bottles. It made me realise how many people drive while drugged on some substance.

watertom 8y ago

Really, I find the opposite to be true. Drinkers will always deny the impact, "I'm fine, I'm not drunk" Where almost everyone I know when stoned usually says, "whoa I'm fucked up."