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I have no idea about THC tolerance in comparison with alcohol. The numbers I see some people claim to consume is in your order of magnitude range vs what beginn

by dpark 1y ago

I have no idea about THC tolerance in comparison with alcohol. The numbers I see some people claim to consume is in your order of magnitude range vs what beginners are advised to use so it’s believable. > Somehow you disagree that my model is accurate enough, but also agree that a constant cutoff is a good heuristic for legal intoxication from alcohol. It’s not that I think your model isn’t accurate enough. It’s that I think your model is not consistent. A few extra drinks is enough to go from just barely under .08 to .16. If an alcoholic can run nearly double the alcohol intake (and double the BAC) of a nonalcoholic I don’t agree that this is nearly the same. I agree with the constant cutoff because a constant reasonable limit is easier to administer. Less subjectivity for law enforcement is a good thing. I would probably support for the same for THC. “But I consume so much that I have a really high tolerance!” Ok, that’s not everyone else’s problem to deal with. Don’t drink if you’re over the limit.

everforward 1y ago
They cant run double, it becomes clearer as the baseline goes up. At .16, the alcoholic would be up at .32 and at serious risk of dying from respiratory suppression. They’re more used to being drunk, but that doesn’t avoid the physical reality of alcohol toxicity. It’s very different than THC where a 10x tolerance is pretty normal for a new user vs a heavy user. Relative to alcohol, that would be .08 vs .80 which is like twice the lethal limit. Thus it’s very hard to set limits because one persons residual use from 6 hours ago is enough to get another person stoned off their ass. I don’t really have solutions there though.
- dpark 1y ago
  I was using your “a few drinks more”. 4 standard beers over 2 hours supposedly puts a guy around .08. 3 more puts him at .16. But yeah, the near double drinking can’t continue because the alcoholic will just die at some point. The THC thing is tough and I will leave it to experts and (more likely) politicians to hash it out. I’m not sure I want more reliance on field sobriety tests though. “His eyes were glassy and he was slurring. No, the camera can’t really capture the glassy eyes and don’t really pick up the slurring…”

by dpark 1y ago

everforward 1y ago

They cant run double, it becomes clearer as the baseline goes up. At .16, the alcoholic would be up at .32 and at serious risk of dying from respiratory suppression. They’re more used to being drunk, but that doesn’t avoid the physical reality of alcohol toxicity. It’s very different than THC where a 10x tolerance is pretty normal for a new user vs a heavy user. Relative to alcohol, that would be .08 vs .80 which is like twice the lethal limit. Thus it’s very hard to set limits because one persons residual use from 6 hours ago is enough to get another person stoned off their ass. I don’t really have solutions there though.

dpark 1y ago
I was using your “a few drinks more”. 4 standard beers over 2 hours supposedly puts a guy around .08. 3 more puts him at .16. But yeah, the near double drinking can’t continue because the alcoholic will just die at some point. The THC thing is tough and I will leave it to experts and (more likely) politicians to hash it out. I’m not sure I want more reliance on field sobriety tests though. “His eyes were glassy and he was slurring. No, the camera can’t really capture the glassy eyes and don’t really pick up the slurring…”