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Laboratory studies examining the effects of marijuana on skills utilized while driving detected impairments in tracking, attention, reaction time, short-term memory, hand-eye coordination, vigilance, time and distance perception, decision making, and concentration.


More recent controlled laboratory research has suggested similarly that marijuana impairs tasks of selective and divided attention, time estimation, and executive function.


Kelly, E., Darke, S. & Ross, J. (2004). A review of drug use and driving: Epidemiology, impairment, risk factor and risk perceptions. Drug and Alcohol Review 23, 319-344.
Turner, B.M.A. (2007). Drugs and driving: The effects of marijuana. Turner, Beth Marie Anderson: U Iowa, US.


http://adai.uw.edu/marijuana/factsheets/driving.htm#sthash.O0Aqr3ER.dpuf
 
All I know is I used to race downhill bikes while totally stoned. I think the study must be total bullshit confirmation bias type stuff that anti weed morons fall for time and again.

Congrats on falling for it again, moron
 
utilized while driving detected impairments in tracking, attention, reaction time, short-term memory, hand-eye coordination, vigilance, time and distance perception, decision making, and concentration.


More recent controlled laboratory research has suggested similarly that marijuana impairs tasks of selective and divided attention, time estimation, and executive function.
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no doubt this is true, at least some of it for some users, not every effect on all users. Dosing and the type (cannibinoids) is also factored
Only while under the influence, no long term deleterious effects.
Plus the medicinal uses are also well established.
 
tinfoil said:
All I know is I used to race downhill bikes while totally stoned. I think the study must be total bullshit confirmation bias type stuff that anti weed morons fall for time and again.

Congrats on falling for it again, moron
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I smoked it a few times after drinking my fair share of beers, it is very powerful, so no one can tell me different. I will say that I am at least for people using it for medicinal purposes. It is kind of the situation with abortion, women who want one will get one, especially the rich ones, while the poor ones have to go into a back alley, not right. My brother grows a little in his back yard, no big deal, it is so easy to grow that the Feds are mostly against it because they cannot tax it. Do not mix Mota with booze, no good, I know. If we legalize its growth, the street gangs will be hurt, right now it is a gateway drug, because it is illegal and controlled by drug dealing gangs. Gateway means it leads to other bad ass drugs like crack, heroin, etc, which I am totally against.
 
LOL at "gateway drug" meme. that shit has been debunked for so long you should feel stupid using the phrase.
 
LOL, where are your peer-reviewed studies, wishful thinkers?

Produce them.



In their review of driving simulator studies, Kelly and colleagues concluded that there is evidence of dose-dependent impairments in marijuana-affected individuals’ ability to control a vehicle in the areas of steering, headway control, speed variability, car following, reaction time and lane positioning.


It should be acknowledged that “even in those who learn to compensate for a drug’s impairing effects, substantial impairment in performance can still be observed under conditions of general task performance (i.e. when no contingencies are present to maintain compensated performance.”


Recent simulator studies have produced findings that replicate and build on those reviewed by Kelly and colleagues.


These studies have suggested that marijuana use acts in a dose-dependent manner to reduce drivers’ average speed, and increase their lane position and steering wheel variability and reaction times.


In addition, one simulator study found that marijuana-affected drivers were more likely to report subjectively increased physical effort and discomfort, and reduced energy, than were drivers in control conditions, again in a dose-dependent manner.


http://adai.uw.edu/marijuana/factsheets/driving.htm#sthash.O0Aqr3ER.6czm6vGY.dpuf
 
tinfoil said:
LOL at "gateway drug" meme. that shit has been debunked for so long you should feel stupid using the phrase.
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When I smoked it, unlike beer, it hit me like a ton of bricks, so I have had an experience, without a lab. People have told me that it will do that if you drink first, daaa, everyone I know who has tried it first drank. I will say that if you drink, and then smoke marijuana watch out, it will mess you up pretty good, it did me, until you get used to it, I guess. I still think that recreational use should be legal, especially if they grow their own, the jails have too many basically good people in them for simple possession, or at least they did. Anything to get the street gangs out of the selling it of it. My brother said that is really easy to grow, so why not just do it. I know one thing, it is cheap to grow, once you get a good start-up procedure. I will not smoke it now because I do not drink anymore, I do not need it to relax, I play golf.
 
Big money said:
Laboratory studies examining the effects of marijuana on skills utilized while driving detected impairments in tracking, attention, reaction time, short-term memory, hand-eye coordination, vigilance, time and distance perception, decision making, and concentration.


More recent controlled laboratory research has suggested similarly that marijuana impairs tasks of selective and divided attention, time estimation, and executive function.


Kelly, E., Darke, S. & Ross, J. (2004). A review of drug use and driving: Epidemiology, impairment, risk factor and risk perceptions. Drug and Alcohol Review 23, 319-344.
Turner, B.M.A. (2007). Drugs and driving: The effects of marijuana. Turner, Beth Marie Anderson: U Iowa, US.


http://adai.uw.edu/marijuana/factsheets/driving.htm#sthash.O0Aqr3ER.dpuf
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I agree with that anaysis, but which is better taking Valium or smoking some backyard weed, as ling as you DO NOT drive?
 
I have never driven high. I don't how people can justify that to themselves. There is no way I should have been driving some of the times I was sky high.
 
tinfoil said:
LOL at "gateway drug" meme. that shit has been debunked for so long you should feel stupid using the phrase.
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It's only a "gateway drug" as long as it's illegal. When kids smoke it and feel ok, they think other illegal drugs are similar. They try those and "OMG THIS IS TOTALLY FREAKIN DIFFERENT, NO WAY IS THIS CLOSE TO WEED"

When Weed is legal, it will become that mild substance that is relatable to alcohol. And it won't be that banned substance that is thriving.

I don't smoke weed. I screamed at friends and broke up with 2 girlfriends for it. Only to find out later that it was a Government Corporate play. Dupont made weed illegal so they could sell their product. They did this through our Congress. I wouldn't have been so judgemental back then if I would have been educated.
 
Console Cowboy said:
I have never driven high. I don't how people can justify that to themselves. There is no way I should have been driving some of the times I was sky high.
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MOST people who want weed to be legal don't they should drive on it, just like alcohol. Stating what Big Money moron did was basic 8th grade education. Yes, the people who smoke pot have "impaired functions". This is not advanced education, this is the exact opposite.
 
Among samples of those who use marijuana, between 43.1% and 82% reported having driven a vehicle shortly after using marijuana.


http://adai.uw.edu/marijuana/factsheets/driving.htm#sthash.O0Aqr3ER.DbS4FRKO.dpuf
 
A review concluded that “the acute effect of moderate or higher doses of marijuana impairs the skills related to safe driving and injury risk”, particularly “attention, tracking and psycho-motor skills” (p. 175).


EMCDDA. (2008a). A cannabis reader: Global issues and local experiences, Monograph series 8, Volume 2. Lisbon: European Monitoring Center for Drugs and Addiction.



http://adai.uw.edu/marijuana/factsheets/driving.htm#sthash.O0Aqr3ER.YoxPwhht.dpuf
 
Driver culpability studies have suggested that drivers testing positive to marijuana are significantly more likely to be responsible for fatal car crashes than are drug-free drivers.


http://adai.uw.edu/marijuana/factsheets/driving.htm#sthash.O0Aqr3ER.YoxPwhht.dpuf
 
Reviews revealed that, among 23 studies of drivers killed in car accidents in Australia, Canada, France, Hong Kong, Italy, Spain, Sweden, the United Kingdom and the United States, marijuana was detected in 1.4% to 37% of drivers (11.7% on average; 11% and 13.5% in Australia).


Drug use, impaired driving and traffic accidents. Insights Series No 8. Luxembourg: Office for Official Publications of the European Communities.


http://adai.uw.edu/marijuana/factsheets/driving.htm#sthash.O0Aqr3ER.YoxPwhht.dpuf
 
tinfoil said:
All I know is I used to race downhill bikes while totally stoned. I think the study must be total bullshit confirmation bias type stuff that anti weed morons fall for time and again.

Congrats on falling for it again, moron
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This would explain a lot; yes, you really are THAT stupid.
 
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