Information released by governments tends to show that cannabis adversely affects drivers. Governments lie.

For decades Australia has blood tested all drivers involved in driving accidents that resulted in injury. The database of driver blood tests was a very large sample for study.

Adelaide University Professor Jack Maclean, director of the road accident research unit, said, while there was no doubt alcohol affected driving adversely, that was not the case with marijuana.

In the accident sample in which one of the drivers had a measurable amount of blood alcohol (not legal limit), the driver with blood alcohol was at fault in 80% of the accidents.

In the accident sample in which one of the driver's blood tested positive for cannabis, the driver with cannabis traces was at fault in 48% of the accidents.

Stoned drivers are paranoid drivers. They tend not to speed and they tend not to take risks. I speak from experience.

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Posted by DawgsLife

Member since Jun 2013

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Posted on 5/5/17 at 11:44 am to Whiznot

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Information released by governments tends to show that cannabis adversely affects drivers. Governments lie.

No doubt or argument. But the article I published seemed to go with statistics of wrecks involving fatalities. Not something they could easily lie about.

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Adelaide University Professor Jack Maclean, director of the road accident research unit, said, while there was no doubt alcohol affected driving adversely, that was not the case with marijuana.

Someone else in this thread wondered if possibly it was the combination of alcohol and marijuana that made the difference. Seems logical since we know that medicines, when taken together affect the body in very different ways. (I think it was Crow, but I am not sure)

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In the accident sample in which one of the drivers had a measurable amount of blood alcohol (not legal limit), the driver with blood alcohol was at fault in 80% of the accidents.

In the accident sample in which one of the driver's blood tested positive for cannabis, the driver with cannabis traces was at fault in 48% of the accidents.

Thar doesn't seem to say that cannabis does not affect driving, so much as it has a lesser impact on driving. Do you agree, or am I misinterpreting?

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Stoned drivers are paranoid drivers. They tend not to speed and they tend not to take risks. I speak from experience.

I have heard that before, too. Surprises me, since i would think alcohol would do the same to people. However, i also realize that alcohol tends to lessen inhibitions.

See? A civil conversation can be had on this subject! (Not aimed at you)