MsUKCityofCultue: Anxiety and paranoia, Impaired memory, Difficulty in thinking, Learning difficulties, Lack of attention and focus,Poor driving skills
I'll answer your last point first witty.. and the rest later.
Stoned drivers are a lot safer than drunk ones, new federal data show By Christopher Ingraham February 9 2015 Washington Post
"A new study from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration finds that drivers who use marijuana are at a significantly lower risk for a crash than drivers who use alcohol. And after adjusting for age, gender, race and alcohol use, drivers who tested positive for marijuana were no more likely to crash than who had not used any drugs or alcohol prior to driving."
The study's findings underscore an important point: that the measurable presence of THC (marijuana's primary active ingredient) in a person's system doesn't correlate with impairment in the same way that blood alcohol concentration does. The NHTSA doesn't mince words: "At the current time, specific drug concentration levels cannot be reliably equated with a specific degree of driver impairment."
Several states have passed laws attempting to define "marijuana-impaired driving" similarly to drunk driving. Colorado, for instance, sets a blood THC threshold of 5 nanograms per milliliter. But that number tells us next to nothing about whether a person is impaired or fit to drive. The implication is that these states are locking up people who are perfectly sober.
A companion study released by the NHTSA identified a sharp jump in the number of weekend night-time drivers testing positive for THC between 2007 and 2013/2014, from 8.6 percent to 12.6 percent. Numbers like these are alarming at first glance. They generate plenty of thoughtless media coverage. They're used by marijuana legalization opponents to conjure up the bogeyman of legions of stoned drivers menacing the nation's roads. In heavy marijuana users, measurable amounts of THC can be detectable in the body days or even weeks after the last use, and long after any psychoactive effects remain."
Copy/paste the link and read the rest.... The report, while telling me nothing new should dispel a lot of myths.
WittyandWise: The drugs vs alcohol is the other thread Belfast boy.
Witty, this is from the first paragraph..
"A new study from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration finds that drivers who use marijuana are at a significantly lower risk for a crash than drivers who use alcohol. And after adjusting for age, gender, race and alcohol use, drivers who tested positive for marijuana were no more likely to crash than who had not used any drugs or alcohol prior to driving."
Paraphrased and in context it reads..'A new study from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration finds that drivers who use marijuana were no more likely to crash than who had not used any drugs'
WittyandWise: Another side effect from the dope
What? You said smoking weed makes people poor drivers. The latest report by the NHTSA say otherwise.
wittyandwise: Anxiety and paranoia, Impaired memory, Difficulty in thinking, Learning difficulties, Lack of attention and focus,
Smoking Marijuana Does Not Improve Creative Thinking, Only The Illusion Of Creativity
Colzato and her colleague, Dr. Mikael Kowal, recruited 54 marijuana smoking participants and divided them into three groups of 18. Researchers provided the first group marijuana with 22 mg of THC (equivalent to “three joints”), the second group marijuana with 5.5 mg of THC (equivalent to a “single joint), and the third group a placebo. Marijuana was inhaled via a vaporizer, and participants were not told what dose they were receiving or if it was a placebo. Receiving the highest dose of THC had a negative effect on the participant’s ability to come up with solutions for the tasks they were asked to perform. Although participants in the low dose or placebo groups displayed better creative thinking skills compared to participants in the high dose group, there were no signs of increased creativity in their actual performance
The problem is that people who misuse drugs and drink that end up in hospital block up the hospitals on those who are genuinely sick from no fault of their own. So take all you like but if you get sick as a result you should be placed as low priority at the back of the queue if you have to go to hospital no matter how bad you are.
Orien3: The problem is that people who misuse drugs and drink that end up in hospital block up the hospitals on those who are genuinely sick from no fault of their own. So take all you like but if you get sick as a result you should be placed as low priority at the back of the queue if you have to go to hospital no matter how bad you are.
hmmm complicated one im afraid. people who misuse drugs and drink and end up in hospital, more than likely are suffering from an underlying mental health problem. in order to deal with the addiction problem, one must first deal with the underlying mental health problem and people with mental health problems have every right to have access to the health services.
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