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Passive smoking is not healthy, plus I'd trust more on the wheel someone who just drank a glass of beer over someone who just smoked a cannabis joint. Not to

Passive smoking is not healthy, plus I'd trust more on the wheel someone who just drank a glass of beer over someone who just smoked a cannabis joint. Not to mention the stench of weed smokers...

kadoban 2y ago
You'd prefer the lovely smells and sounds of angry, vomiting drunks with poor impulse control?
- hackernewds 2y ago
  Fewer people with a drink and vomit on them, then the instant stench that pervades every piece of furniture
ben_w 2y ago
I'm not aware of a standardised unit of weed, but there is one for alcohol. For this specific reason, I expect higher variation from weed — though I also wouldn't trust either to drive a car.
leptons 2y ago
One beer and one entire joint are not equivalent in levels of intoxication. Try 6 beers vs 1 entire joint and maybe you're getting somewhere close to equivalence in level of intoxication. Most people don't smoke an entire joint in one sitting. All it takes is about 3 or 4 puffs and that's typically enough for quite a while. That's the equivalent of about 2 beers. And I'd trust someone more behind the wheel that had a few puffs of a joint vs. someone who just drank 2 or 3 beers. The kind of intoxication is very different between alcohol and THC. There is no way to do a 1:1 comparison as far as effects on driving ability. They each act on very different pathways, and produce different results. Marijuana also never made anyone pass out while driving from smoking too much, but alcohol definitely can do that.
- choko 2y ago
  Many people use marijuana for sleep. Are you really sure no one has ever fallen asleep at the wheel due to marijuana use? It seems like a bold claim.
  - leptons 2y ago
    Marijuana and alcohol differ significantly when taken in large quantities. Alcohol will make a person pass out without exception. Marijuana does not specifically make a person pass out at high doses. You would need to take a low dose of marijuana to use it as a sleep aid.

Passive smoking is not healthy, plus I'd trust more on the wheel someone who just drank a glass of beer over someone who just smoked a cannabis joint. Not to mention the stench of weed smokers...

kadoban 2y ago

You'd prefer the lovely smells and sounds of angry, vomiting drunks with poor impulse control?

hackernewds 2y ago
Fewer people with a drink and vomit on them, then the instant stench that pervades every piece of furniture

ben_w 2y ago

I'm not aware of a standardised unit of weed, but there is one for alcohol. For this specific reason, I expect higher variation from weed — though I also wouldn't trust either to drive a car.

leptons 2y ago

One beer and one entire joint are not equivalent in levels of intoxication. Try 6 beers vs 1 entire joint and maybe you're getting somewhere close to equivalence in level of intoxication. Most people don't smoke an entire joint in one sitting. All it takes is about 3 or 4 puffs and that's typically enough for quite a while. That's the equivalent of about 2 beers. And I'd trust someone more behind the wheel that had a few puffs of a joint vs. someone who just drank 2 or 3 beers. The kind of intoxication is very different between alcohol and THC. There is no way to do a 1:1 comparison as far as effects on driving ability. They each act on very different pathways, and produce different results. Marijuana also never made anyone pass out while driving from smoking too much, but alcohol definitely can do that.

choko 2y ago
Many people use marijuana for sleep. Are you really sure no one has ever fallen asleep at the wheel due to marijuana use? It seems like a bold claim.
- leptons 2y ago
  Marijuana and alcohol differ significantly when taken in large quantities. Alcohol will make a person pass out without exception. Marijuana does not specifically make a person pass out at high doses. You would need to take a low dose of marijuana to use it as a sleep aid.