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We don't restrict maximum daily allowance of any other recreationally used substance Sure we do. Almost every country has a legal definition of sobriety when i

We don't restrict maximum daily allowance of any other recreationally used substance Sure we do. Almost every country has a legal definition of sobriety when it comes to alcohol. Murder is murder, it doesn't matter if you did it while high, or drunk, or on PCP, the crime was still the murder, not the state of mind that led you there. There are many legal degrees of murder and state of mind certainly plays a role in how much trouble you're going to be in. There is no practical maximum to smoking pot If I smoke a certain amount of pot I shouldn't be driving. The effects of weed wildly differ between people. It's one reason legalization is difficult. It's very hard to determine how stoned a person is and whether or not it's even affecting their motor skills or judgement.

gnaritas 18y ago
> Sure we do. Almost every country has a legal definition of sobriety when it comes to alcohol. No we don't. We don't have a max daily allowance of alcohol, you can drink all you want, you just can't drive. No one will stop you from drinking yourself to death if you so choose. You can walk into any store sober and buy enough alcohol to kill 20 people and no one will stop you. > It's very hard to determine how stoned a person is and whether or not it's even affecting their motor skills or judgement. If you can't figure out if someone is stoned and they can pass the field sobriety tests administered by the police, then who care if they're driving. This idea that you need some quick way to test for a particular drug because someone might drive while on it is just absurd. We take all kinds of drugs, legally, that are much worse than pot and no one screams about driving on it. Alcohol is particularly problematic because it affects your judgment center and makes you do stupid think like drive when you should otherwise know you can't. Pot doesn't do that.

gnaritas 18y ago

> Sure we do. Almost every country has a legal definition of sobriety when it comes to alcohol. No we don't. We don't have a max daily allowance of alcohol, you can drink all you want, you just can't drive. No one will stop you from drinking yourself to death if you so choose. You can walk into any store sober and buy enough alcohol to kill 20 people and no one will stop you. > It's very hard to determine how stoned a person is and whether or not it's even affecting their motor skills or judgement. If you can't figure out if someone is stoned and they can pass the field sobriety tests administered by the police, then who care if they're driving. This idea that you need some quick way to test for a particular drug because someone might drive while on it is just absurd. We take all kinds of drugs, legally, that are much worse than pot and no one screams about driving on it. Alcohol is particularly problematic because it affects your judgment center and makes you do stupid think like drive when you should otherwise know you can't. Pot doesn't do that.