Investigators: Beer cans, suspected pot in Jeep

Smoking pot doesn't affect driving ability, so that's a non-issue

Is that the first thing that comes to mind when you read this article? What's wrong with you?

When I smoked pot, now over 30 years ago, I would get lost in the dark though driving in an area I knew very well if straight. I also could feel panic if driving on a crowded highway. Pot affects all the senses; to say driving high is the same as driving straight is just an excuse to keep driving high. Stay off my roads...please.

Heart breaking story that just gets worse.

drunk and stoned wrote:

Smoking pot doesn't affect driving ability, so that's a non-issue

...just like drunks don't think alcohol affects their driving. Loser.

Dope does impair judgement: and you are too stoned to notice how stupid you are.
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Koffman had NO alcohol in her system. Nuf said on that topic.

drunk and stoned wrote:

Smoking pot doesn't affect driving ability, so that's a non-issue

Clearly it affects your common sense though.

drunk and stoned wrote:

Smoking pot doesn't affect driving ability, so that's a non-issue

I wouldn't know how true or untrue this is as I am not a pot smoker, but I am willing to put my money on the fact that it DOES impair driving- and obviously judgment!

Either way, smoking pot is illegal. Another box to check when he is charged, sentenced, and paying for his crimes. This is why it is called DUI (driving under the influence- of anything that impairs one's ability to drive safely) rather than DWI (driving while intoxicated).

drunk and stoned wrote:

Smoking pot doesn't affect driving ability, so that's a non-issue

duh duh duh duh I can put a sentence together duh duh duh....
Go smoke some pot and drive your car off a cliff!!!! There are families that have lost loved ones lives because of mixing pot & alcohol, which we now know for a fact... and you still defend it. You have no respect for life, obviously that is why you are ruining your own by having a drug habit. This world would be better off without you!!!

Taking any drug with another is always a bad idea. This pointed article says thet marijuana was found and that there were signs of it possibly have been smoked in the glass pipe found. The article also states that the paraphenelia found could have been gathered from one car to another... At this point, this sounds like it may be far fetched...
Trying to state that smoking an illegal substance doesn't affect motor abilities is not relevant in this case. If people need to ingest THC for medical reasons... I can understand that, but smoking a joint, drinking a couple beers, and then driving... Well, that's a personal act that you have to deal with... I am friends with a few people associated with NORML, and I can rest assured that if their kids got killed because someone drank a few drinks and smoked a few joints, and then made the personal decision to drive... Well, they'd be calling their lawyers right quick!

drunk and stoned wrote:

Smoking pot doesn't affect driving ability, so that's a non-issue

u stll live with ur mom 2 wrote:

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duh duh duh duh I can put a sentence together duh duh duh....
Go smoke some pot and drive your car off a cliff!!!! There are families that have lost loved ones lives because of mixing pot & alcohol, which we now know for a fact... and you still defend it. You have no respect for life, obviously that is why you are ruining your own by having a drug habit. This world would be better off without you!!!

Wow, I'm sure you're parents are proud of an attitude like that. Hell, why don't you go into the field of psychology, you seem to know what's best for people.

I think someone had already asked, but I wonder what his blood alcohol content level would have been if they had taken it 4 hours earlier? Geeze..

u stll live with ur mom 2 wrote:

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duh duh duh duh I can put a sentence together duh duh duh....
Go smoke some pot and drive your car off a cliff!!!! There are families that have lost loved ones lives because of mixing pot & alcohol, which we now know for a fact... and you still defend it. You have no respect for life, obviously that is why you are ruining your own by having a drug habit. This world would be better off without you!!!

There are lots of people in Santa Fe who want pot legalized, they say that pot doesns't affect driving ability, where are they now?

u stll live with ur mom 2 wrote:

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duh duh duh duh I can put a sentence together duh duh duh....
Go smoke some pot and drive your car off a cliff!!!! There are families that have lost loved ones lives because of mixing pot & alcohol, which we now know for a fact... and you still defend it. You have no respect for life, obviously that is why you are ruining your own by having a drug habit. This world would be better off without you!!!

My point (your point is on the top of your head) is that many in Santa Fe want another legal substance, pot, which will be used by people before and while they are driving.

Isn't alcohol bad enough?

"I am friends with a few people associated with NORML, and I can rest assured that if their kids got killed because someone drank a few drinks and smoked a few joints, and then made the personal decision to drive... Well, they'd be calling their lawyers right quick! "

This makes NO sense!!!

drunk and stoned wrote:

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There are lots of people in Santa Fe who want pot legalized, they say that pot doesns't affect driving ability, where are they now?

I guess your screen name rings true. YOU said that!!

Still, if the young driver, and her parents had followed the rules of the provisional license these kids would never have been in the path of that damn drunk!!!!!!!! I was married to a drunk. Trust me I know........

Nobody drives fast enough on pot to really hurt anyone.