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smoking weed and driving

Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
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What does everyone think about smokin' and drivin? most of my friends are OK with it, but I know some people who paralell it with drinking and driving.
The thing is, weed doesnt make me lose driving skills really in the sameway alky would, it does impair me in some ways tho...
last weekend I smoked like 15 bowls with 2 friends and then drove to Toronto..missed my exit 3 times heh

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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    I know lots of people who drive around gettin stoned, seems o.k, although 'government tests' say it does slow reactions in a similar way to alcohol, but then they are government tests <IMG SRC="wink.gif" border="0" ALT="icon">
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    "Lets say you get in a car accident whilst stoned on pot.... youre only going 4 miles per hour..... BUMP...shit, oh god we hit something... oops - forgot to open the garage door." - Bill Hicks

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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Originally posted by Psilocybian:
    <STRONG>"Lets say you get in a car accident whilst stoned on pot.... youre only going 4 miles per hour..... BUMP...shit, oh god we hit something... oops - forgot to open the garage door." - Bill Hicks

    <IMG SRC="biggrin.gif" border="0" ALT="icon"></STRONG>

    'Tis true! I wouldn't condone it, but it sure ain't as bad as drink driving. But still, I'd always play it safe.... but then again, I am Mr Paranoia when it comes to cars.

    *Cue flashbacks*
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Hmmm....not sure it's as safe as driving whilst totally clean and sober but it sure makes you slow down! I used to smoke a LOT of weed, and driving made me ridiculously paranoid. Talk about nose on the windscreen.....oh dear <IMG SRC="rolleyes.gif" border="0" ALT="icon"> .

    Mind you, the police certainly turn a blind eye. I've been caught smoking weed in my car (when I still lived at home - nowehere else to go....) so many times, and they just give you a small warning. They've never even mentioned the fact that I'm under the influence of drugs and I'm clearly planning to drive home. Nice. <IMG SRC="tongue.gif" border="0" ALT="icon">
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Actually...***has second thoughts****....I wrote my car off once in the PURSUIT of weed.

    (Image of crazed desperate woman in battered VW Polo speeding along deserted Scottish road chasing small lump of hashish)

    I'd just finished work one night at 11.30pm and was gagging for a joint, so I was travelling a bit too fast on a wet road with big bends. <IMG SRC="rolleyes.gif" border="0" ALT="icon">

    Ended up skidding round a corner, clearing a low stone wall in between a telegraph pole and a road sign (just), rolling down a hill and ending up in a field. I sat there for a while wondering whether to turn the windscreen wipers off cos the windscreen was about 6 feet in front of me. Then I pondered the fact that the wing mirrors were bent inside the car.

    Then I wondered whether it was worth dragging my car back onto the road without windows and a contorted bonnet to drive to my dealer.

    Then I REALLY need a joint. <IMG SRC="frown.gif" border="0" ALT="icon">
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    hmmm. I dont think you should be driving under the influence of even 1 drink so I cant agree with driving while stoned.

    People who take a light-hearted attitude to this never cease to amaze me, I mean... its not even your driving thats the worry, what if that child or other vehicle shoots out in front of you and you are just a split second slower to react? No thanks... I walk or take a taxi. I'm happy to decide when to take risks with my own life, but I don't feel I have the right to take risks with the lives of others.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    I drove when being stoned once. On new years eve!I felt like being in war!all this rockets were pretty scarry!
    NEVER AGAIN!
    I'll just walk!

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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Nah, m8, smoking and driving not a good idea. I can't see how its all that much different from drink driving, really. Not worth the risk! I'm not loosing my Beetle for anything! Smoke - oooohhhh yes. And drive? I shouldn't think so. <IMG SRC="tongue.gif" border="0" ALT="icon">
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    this makes me furious, just over a year ago to this day i lost my best mate to some **** who thought it was cool to smoke loads of weed and then drive straight into my mates front and kill him instantly....still think its ok? dont do it... it stopped me ever taking weed let alone driving after that it affects everybody most importantly the family involved but also loads of his mates..
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    I would never atempt to drive while on anything.To do so is just so unresponsible. Im pretty aware of how slow and muddled i become when smoking hash. I even nearly set the kitchen on fire trying to cook one time when i was stonned, got a microwave meal and instead of putting it into the microwave I tryed to boil it in a pan of boiling water and forgot about it <IMG SRC="biggrin.gif" border="0" ALT="icon"> sent everyone around me into the giggles. I just wouldnt trust my self. Even some perscription drugs have made me drowesy and i would not drive on them either.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    I drive a fair bit when stoned. It's not that bad as long as you're an experienced driver and u have to concentrate a lot. I have on occassions felt my mind wander away from driving to think about wonderful stoned thoughts, but if u can concentrate and be careful it's not all that dangerous.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Weed affects your perceptions and reaction times considerably, so it is a lot more dangerous to drive when stoned.
    Don't do it!
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    drink driving is worse than smoking weed and driving
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Originally posted by eb:
    <STRONG>drink driving is worse than smoking weed and driving</STRONG>

    Thats as maybe, but smoking weed and driving is still stupid and irresponsible.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    its one of them questions that is hard to ansewer . i have been a smoker for ten years,and last five years iv smoked heavy.eg most days.i have smoked and drove but i dont think it is a good idea.
    i have been driveing for ten years and i know from expereance that it impares reaction times gudgement and i surgest only in emerancys and with at least 3 year experance driveing. and limit to one like u would with beer.
    and after reading the messege from a guy that lost his mate to someone druged and driveing im not doing it again
    personaly i couldnt live with my selfishness!
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    I cant belive that some of you think it is ok, to be under the influence of pot whilst driving

    All of youz who think DRIVING whilst smashed nead to wake up......

    you've obviously been smoking too much of the stuff, and it has clouded your common sense.....

    It is not good or clever, to smoke weed OR be smashed whilst driving.........

    It is not good or clever to be on any kind of drug whilst driving....

    it is not good or clever to be drunk OR drinknig whilst driving.......

    Come on its common sense! stop being so fucking selfish, and think about what dammage you could do to other people......
    If someone ever knocked down/killed someone i loved, and i found out they where under the influnce of Alcohol/Any Kind Of Drug, i would hunt them down and give them a right old pasting.......

    NOW FUCKING WAKE UP!
    Tossers!
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    well said tek_ed
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    I go along with the opinion that it would be fine for you to go out and drink/smoke and drive cause if you only risked harming/killing yourself. However, the fact remains that being under the influence of any drug (alcohol included) puts others at risk if you are on the road, therefore have to say that it is wrong!

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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Used to smoke + drive loads, and after a while you do become accustomed to it, so you are probabily less dagerous than some-one who only does it occasionally.
    Actually I think i was a safer driver when stoned because I was being cautious (partly because i didn't want to get pulled for speeding)... When not stoned I didn't care, so would have been more likly to cause an accident through overtaking, tailgating etc etc.

    I stopped when I realised that it is other people's lives at risk as well as myself, and I really couldn't see myself going about my daily business after killing some-one so stupidly...
    Added to that loosing my license would loose me my job...
    the benifit isn't nearly worth the risks (think if you get pulled over, blood tested, arrested)...

    Wow! thats, like, 3 good reasons not to.

    Having said that I'm still happy to get into a car with some mates (but not all) after a session and light another one as we're travelling. Does that make me a hypocrite?
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