sEEING AS HOW THE GOVERNMENT IS CONSITENTLY LYING ABOUT ANY AND EVERYTHING THATS MARIJUANA RELATED HOW ABOUT THIS.lETS DO A CONTROLLED EXPERIEMENT.tAKE SAY 10 PEOPLE,LET THEM DRINK AND GET THEIR BUZZ AND THEN LET THEM LOOSE ON A CONTROLLED DRIVING COURSE,THEN TAKE 10 PEOPLE WHO HAVE EACH SMOKED A JOINT AND DO THE SAME,THEN LETS SEE WHO HAS PROBLEMS WITH DRIVING AND WHO DOESNT.i’LL BET CASH MONEY THAT THOSE WHO SMOKED THE POT WILL [PASS WITH FLYING COLORS WHILE THOSE WHO DRANK WILL FAIL

The fact that alcohol use and alcohol related traffic deaths were associated or correlated with increased use of cannabis not NOT mean that they are causally linked. An old saying in Psychology statistics is: correlation is NOT causation! There could be MANY explanations as to why both of those phenomena occured simultaneously. It could just be random even. Your assumption is that a large body of alcohol users instead turned to cannabis and thus there was a decrease in alcohol use and alcohol related traffic fatalities becuase they were driving while using marijuana instead. BUT there is no actual evidence to say or prove that this was the case. Marijuana actually can cause dangerous driving depending on dose and experience of the user. That is proven in several well documented studies. I don’t applaud alcohol use at all. It is a severely dangerous drug on many levels. And I don’t demonize Marijuana either. But I do look at the facts. Marijuana use has been shown to impair motor co-ordination and reaction time in flight simulators, driving simulators and in real traffic studies. Here is a little more from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration:

Effects on Driving: Epidemiology data from road traffic arrests and fatalities indicate that after alcohol, marijuana is the most frequently detected psychoactive substance among driving populations. Marijuana has been shown to impair performance on driving simulator tasks and on open and closed driving courses for up to approximately 3 hours. Decreased car handling performance, increased reaction times, impaired time and distance estimation, inability to maintain headway, lateral travel, subjective sleepiness, motor incoordination, and impaired sustained vigilance have all been reported. Some drivers may actually be able to improve performance for brief periods by overcompensating for self-perceived impairment. The greater the demands placed on the driver, however, the more critical the likely impairment. Marijuana may particularly impair monotonous and prolonged driving. Decision times to evaluate situations and determine appropriate responses increase. Mixing alcohol and marijuana may dramatically produce effects greater than either drug on its own.

And now we know why Anheuser/Busch and other “legal drug” manufacturers are donating hundreds of thousands of dollars to fight against reclassifying and regulating cannabis.

Wonder how long it will take the cotton industry to jump on that band wagon.

And what happens when the energy industry finds out that the sugar content of cannabis is more than sufficient to become a viable renewable energy resource substitute for corn and oil.