re: So Tony Stewart ran over and killed another driver at a race last night

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Whiznot

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Quality of driving as a result of under, over, or proper brain to twitch-muscle reaction is one thing, impaired judgment of decision making and exiting your car and stepping towards the path of oncoming danger, is another.

And like you said, while stoned, some drove slower while some drove faster laps. There's absolutely no way to know which one Ward would have been.

On top of that, there's no way you're going to convince any of us who have actually smoked pot and been high before (many times in my youth) that it doesn't chemically alter brain activity and motor skills for the worse. The only thing close to this I can substantiate is that it always calmed my nerves in highly stressful or highly intense situations and this calming effect reduced mistakes from over-reaction or over-analysis. But that's about it. I've never had my motor skills firing off quicker because I was stoned. And there's more than enough research in to the effects of marijuana to prove that it slows down the firing of synapses which in turn slows down motor skill function and overall brain activity.