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I don't see how anyone would even want to attempt to drive while baked.

by hurril 5mo ago

marysol5 5mo ago
/Some/ people view Cannabis as some wonder drug, that has no negative effects whatsoever, and really play on that idea.
- jazz9k 5mo ago
  These same people also wanted to keep it medicinal, so if they kill a family while under the influence, it's not counted as under the influence.
  - buffington 5mo ago
    What do you mean by "same people"? Who are these people? The comment you're responding to certainly doesn't specify, but somehow you know that they're the same as the people who said whatever batshit thing you think they said. I'm prepared to be wrong though. I searched the internet for six whole minutes and found no evidence of even a single person, let alone the group of people you say exist.
dtj1123 5mo ago
Because it's fun, and many people (myself of 15 years ago included) are fucking idiots.
- hurril 5mo ago
  I am still an idiot. But driving baked would be impossible :)
  - dtj1123 5mo ago
    Practice makes perfect I guess.
- KellyCriterion 5mo ago
  LOL Hell,no: Its fucking boring! You have to look at the street, manouvre a quite complex vehicle correctly, listen to neighbour seat etc. - this is energy exausting, no energy providing :-D
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Mezzie 5mo ago
I had to do so once and I found it very unpleasant. I was aware the whole time that I should not be driving. (I was also full of adrenaline and stress, which are confounding factors, but I'd driven under similarly stressed conditions and being high made it much more unpleasant.)
xprnio 5mo ago
Haven’t gotten around to get myself a car yet, but I did have one of those electric scooters (2x900W motors I think, up to 50-60km/h depending on the climb) along with full gear (from moto shoes, gloves, and a helmet, to kevlar pants and an armored jacket). We had “roads” for bicycles and stuff like that, heavily isolated from regular traffic, and maybe having 1-2 people every 500-1000m. I very often went on a baked circuit there, not as a “let’s get a faster lap time”, but more of a “clear my mind” type of ride. For things like this, I definitely prefer to be baked simply because of how it weirdly helped me disconnect from everything else going on in my life, focusing only on the about 15-20km of quiet, nature-adjacent, 95% empty, smooth bike road. When I took the same scooter out to ride within traffic (akin to a motorbike, following all traffic rules aside from “vehicle registration” and “a license” because these weren’t and AFAIK still aren’t feasible for these), it was a whole different story. What riding with cannabis showed me was that you need to have trust in both yourself and your surroundings. But riding in traffic, sharing the road with people that aren’t even used to seeing motorbikes on the road that often (let alone electric scooters sharing the road with cars), being baked definitely made things more stressful than it would have needed to be.

I don't see how anyone would even want to attempt to drive while baked.

by hurril 5mo ago

I don't see how anyone would even want to attempt to drive while baked.

marysol5 5mo ago

/Some/ people view Cannabis as some wonder drug, that has no negative effects whatsoever, and really play on that idea.

jazz9k 5mo ago
These same people also wanted to keep it medicinal, so if they kill a family while under the influence, it's not counted as under the influence.
- buffington 5mo ago
  What do you mean by "same people"? Who are these people? The comment you're responding to certainly doesn't specify, but somehow you know that they're the same as the people who said whatever batshit thing you think they said. I'm prepared to be wrong though. I searched the internet for six whole minutes and found no evidence of even a single person, let alone the group of people you say exist.

dtj1123 5mo ago

Because it's fun, and many people (myself of 15 years ago included) are fucking idiots.

hurril 5mo ago
I am still an idiot. But driving baked would be impossible :)
- dtj1123 5mo ago
  Practice makes perfect I guess.
KellyCriterion 5mo ago
LOL Hell,no: Its fucking boring! You have to look at the street, manouvre a quite complex vehicle correctly, listen to neighbour seat etc. - this is energy exausting, no energy providing :-D

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Mezzie 5mo ago

I had to do so once and I found it very unpleasant. I was aware the whole time that I should not be driving. (I was also full of adrenaline and stress, which are confounding factors, but I'd driven under similarly stressed conditions and being high made it much more unpleasant.)

xprnio 5mo ago

Haven’t gotten around to get myself a car yet, but I did have one of those electric scooters (2x900W motors I think, up to 50-60km/h depending on the climb) along with full gear (from moto shoes, gloves, and a helmet, to kevlar pants and an armored jacket). We had “roads” for bicycles and stuff like that, heavily isolated from regular traffic, and maybe having 1-2 people every 500-1000m. I very often went on a baked circuit there, not as a “let’s get a faster lap time”, but more of a “clear my mind” type of ride. For things like this, I definitely prefer to be baked simply because of how it weirdly helped me disconnect from everything else going on in my life, focusing only on the about 15-20km of quiet, nature-adjacent, 95% empty, smooth bike road. When I took the same scooter out to ride within traffic (akin to a motorbike, following all traffic rules aside from “vehicle registration” and “a license” because these weren’t and AFAIK still aren’t feasible for these), it was a whole different story. What riding with cannabis showed me was that you need to have trust in both yourself and your surroundings. But riding in traffic, sharing the road with people that aren’t even used to seeing motorbikes on the road that often (let alone electric scooters sharing the road with cars), being baked definitely made things more stressful than it would have needed to be.