The American Journal of Epidemiology published a study that tracks the amount of fatal car chrashes and their causes. Fatal car crashes with drivers under the influence of pot have tripled in the United States between 1999 and 2010.
Of course contradicts the argument for those who believe pot should be legalized because it is “less harmful” than alcohol.
“Currently, one of nine drivers involved in fatal crashes would test positive for marijuana,” said Dr. Guohua Li, director of the Center for Injury Epidemiology and Prevention at Columbia, co-author of the study. “If a driver is under the influence of alcohol, their risk of a fatal crash is 13 times higher than the risk of the driver who is not under the influence of alcohol,” Li said. “But if the driver is under the influence of both alcohol and marijuana, their risk increased to 24 times that of a sober person.”
The researchers found that drugs played an increasing role in fatal traffic accidents. Drugged driving accounted for more than 28 percent of traffic deaths in 2010, which is 16 percent more than it was in 1999.The researchers also found that marijuana was the main drug involved in the increase. It contributed to 12 percent of fatal crashes, compared to only 4 percent in 1999.
Flip-flop much? Wendy Davis should have a a new bumper sticker printed that says:
"Wendy Davis, Candidate for Governor & Lying Sack of Shit"
Check out her new positions on the issues this week.
WENDY DAVIS FLIP FLOPS ON ABORTION BAN – NOW SUPPORTS 20 WEEK BAN
“I would line up with most people in Texas who would prefer that that’s not something that happens outside of those two arenas. My concern, even in the way the 20-week ban was written in this particular bill, was that it didn’t give enough deference between a woman and her doctor making this difficult decision, and instead tried to legislatively define what it was.”
“The Supreme Court sets that viability and it probably will be revisited. It’s one that deserves that kind of reflection to determine whether that kind of constitutional protection should exist at a time period less than what it is right now. It was the least objectionable. I would have and could have voted to allow that to go through, if I felt like we had tightly defined the ability for a woman and a doctor to be making this decision together and not have the Legislature get too deep in the weeds of how we would describe when that was appropriate.”
WENDY DAVIS AGREES WITH GOVERNOR RICK PERRY
“I do believe that Governor Perry’s approach is a reasonable approach, that we as a state need to think about the cost of that incarceration and, obviously, the cost to the taxpayers as a consequence of it, and whether we’re really solving any problem for the state by virtue of incarcerations for small amounts of marijuana possession. I don’t know where the state is on that, as a population. Certainly as governor I think it’s important to be deferential to whether the state of Texas feels that it’s ready for that.”
WENDY DAVIS IS PRO-OPEN CARRY
“Obviously in Texas we have a culture that respects the Second Amendment right and privilege of owning and carrying guns — but we also, of course, have respect and understand a the rights and privileges of property owners to make decisions about what’s right for them. My position on open carry reflects my respect for both of those principles, and I believe that municipalities, school districts, hospitals, private property owners should be the ones that ultimately have a say as to whether this is right for them and their facilities.”
BREAKING: Wendy Davis' ex-husband announces he will take custody of the abortion position she no longer wants.
On 1 January 2014, the Centennial State (Colorado) began its grand experiment with the legalization of choom (aka Mary Jane, ganja, wacky weed, wacky tabacky, mari-ji-wanna, happy hemp). Thus far, the experiment has been going as one might expect—it has produced all sorts of unintended consequences never envisioned by the pro-choom lobby.
First, no one realized there would be RULES to contend with (see “Emergency Rules Related to the Colorado Retail Marijuana Code”) such as where you can smoke, how it can be grown, inspections required, etc. Second, no one seems to have noticed that the possession and use of marijuana on Federal land is still illegal, and there is a lot of Federal land in Colorado (Ski slopes anyone?) Third, as one radio talk show host put it, marijuana combines the stink of tobacco with the stupidity of booze. In other words, it seems to offend everyone who is not lighting up—at this point, a majority of the people. Fourth, emergency rooms are seeing a switch from boozers to dopers, but no decline in clientele. Gee: if I get stoned and try to use my chainsaw, it is likely that I could cut off my hand? Or: if I get stoned and drive 85 mph on an icy road, I can still have a bad experience with an abutment?
Fifth, drug gangs have not fled the state. They still have a thriving business selling to anyone under 21 and/or unwilling to pay state taxes and inflated prices for legal recreational pot. Medical marijuana was being sold at about $150 per ounce earlier this year. Predictions were that recreational pot would be legally at about $185 per ounce. The real price today for legal pot is $350-$500 per ounce and up. Indeed, who can tell the difference between a joint made from gang choom and one made from state choom? Rather than putting the gangs out of business, the law gives them a cover. And if you consider that citizens are allowed to grow their own in limited quantities, it is hard to see how the state rationally expects to benefit at all. Sixth, vacationers will have to establish a local connection because there will be no choom sales at Denver International Airport. True, there will be state-regulated choom stored in eight Colorado municipalities, but what cab driver will take a fare to one of these stores when he/she can make the sale in person from his/her cheaper, private stash?
The stupidity of what Colorado has done is best exemplified for Posca by a phone call heard on a talk show on 850KOA radio on the day before implementation of the law. A caller from Breckenridge opined that the legalization of choom would literally save the planet Earth. Why? Because “hemp sucks up carbon dioxide” and “carbon dioxide causes global warming.” Thus, by growing as much hemp as possible, global warming would be defeated and the planet saved.
Assume for the moment that the caller is right. What happens when he lights up his hookah? All of that carbon dioxide is released back into the atmosphere. If he really wanted to save the planet, he should bury the choom deep underground for 20 million years and let it turn into something useful. But smoking choom has consequences, and I hope the rest of the country is paying close attention.
Turn on, tune in, drop out. That is what the state of Colorado will be known for as thousands celebrate Colorado becoming the first state in America to legally sell marijuana for recreational use.
As others were merely ringing in the new year, a few hundred in Denver celebrated with pot- fueled "End of Prohibition" parties. Colorado currently has 160 dispensaries licensed to sell recreational pot.
Supporters of the reefer madness laughably claim Colorado will become the Napa Valley of pot. Of course, one has to travel far and wide in Napa to find grown pasty white men with braided beards, bud tattoos with Coolio faces and manboobs, sucking down Mary Jane’s “calming soda” while scarfing bags of Cheetos.
Colorado Highlife Tours will offer “fun, affordable and discreet' cannabis-centered day trips and is set to expand into limosine and bus tours. You'll be able to buy a little pot here and there, see a commercial grow, visit iconic Colorado landmarks and take lots of pictures,” company owner Timothy Vee told NBC. “It will be like a Napa Valley wine tour.”
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