"People who drive under the influence of any mind altering substance (be it alcohol or weed)" How bout coffee, energy drinks, cold medicine, most prescribed pr

"People who drive under the influence of any mind altering substance (be it alcohol or weed)" How bout coffee, energy drinks, cold medicine, most prescribed prescription medicines have some blurb about possible mental effects, tea, kava, nodoz caffeine pills, numerous herbal products ... We only complain about certain psychoactive drugs, and not others. Theres no logic behind it aside from residual cultural Puritanism, so looking for non cavalier logical behavior is likely to be fruitless. Also it varies by state, and there are quite effective tests for THC, and we've got megatons of state laws on the books WRT inattentive and distracted and negligent driving that cover it quite well. Finally we have endless nuisance laws such that all of us are always criminals all the time that can be selectively enforce by cops on pot smokers, much as "driving while black" has been criminalized in certain areas. Like yourself, I don't smoke (gives me an awful headache) but given the total net effect of prohibition, my kids are more likely to be killed as innocent bystanders in a shootout than killed by a stoned driver, so I'd prefer the lower risk. On the assumption that use patterns would change significantly with legalization (I'm still not going to smoke, my grannie still isn't going to smoke, its based on the "logic" that if abortion is legal nobody would ever have children, ever, which is pretty laughable). This logic is often seen in hyper-authoritarian areas. I live in a free area where cops won't drag me out of my house and shoot me if I paint polka dots on my house, of course nobody acts like that, but people who live in hyper authoritarian areas always under some HOA jackboots assume all humans would uncontrollably paint their houses purple polkadots unless the stormtroopers keep order under violent force.