I feel bad about this because GF and Salty have been great supporters of the VoteBallou campaign, but man... The responses in this thread are so agonizingly stupid that I really can't believe what I'm reading. Anyone -- and I mean this,
anyone who thinks that getting ripped doesn't/wouldn't impair you behind the wheel and put themselves and other drivers at risk is a moron. Plain. Simple. Moron.
KOCaslmonNJ said:
Because Viagra isn't impairing anyone's senses to the point that it could hurt or kill someone else.
See my above statement. Unfortunately, the usually nimble-minded GameFace has shown this same lack of mental awareness:
GameFarce said:
You saying marijuana impairs people to the point that they're hurting and killing people is the only thing intellectually dishonest going on here.
Again, I'm in awe that anyone can seriously have this opinion without having a major brain injury to blame it on. Brace yourselves, I'm about to go S2Emoticon on all yallz asses.
GameFarce said:
So, it
does impair. Check. Just making sure, because you said earlier that it didn't impair people.
GameFarce said:
Makes paranoid, user dependent.
User dependent? WTF is that supposed to mean? So it only causes paranoia for some people? The vast majority of pot smokers suffer some degree of paranoia. If you're constantly looking out your window and in your mirrors for cops/aliens/Bob Ross, then your focus isn't on the road or what you're doing -- also known as impairment.
GameFarce said:
Causes hallucinations, no.
Again, incorrect. Not only have I personally had some ridiculously awesome hallucinations while high, but according to wiki (ya, ya): "At higher doses, effects can include altered body image, auditory and/or visual illusions, pseudo-hallucinatory or (rarely, at very high doses) fully hallucinatory experiences." and The American Council for Drug Education calls it, "A mild hallucinogen". Maybe it didn't or doesn't for you, but it most certainly does for a vast majority of users.
GameFarce said:
Causes dizziness/lack of coordination, no.
You're not serious here, right? Every single googled site will tell you that Marijuana causes dizziness and/or lack of coordination. To state otherwise is just folly.
GameFarce said:
Laughable, at the very least. Again, a simple google search of, "is marijuana addictive" will pretty much put this bitch to sleep.
GameFarce said:
Incorrect. While some studies show that there isn't nearly the same risk as smoking tobacco, weed still has risks and many of the same carcinogens that are found in cigs.
https://lungcancer.about.com/od/causesoflungcance1/f/marijuana.htm (for example)
GameFarce said:
Impairs cognition/decision making, big yes.
So, here we have it again. It
does impair your cognition and decision making. Got it.
So, to sum up: Smoking weed Impairs, causes Paranoia, causes hallucinations, causes dizziness and a lack of coordination, is addictive, causes cancer, and impairs your cognition and decision making. That being said, you're still ok with this:
GameFarce said:
You saying marijuana impairs people to the point that they're hurting and killing people is the only thing intellectually dishonest going on here.
Please tell me that you misread what Salty was saying. I will give you the benefit of the doubt and believe you when you tell me you were wasted when you originally started posting in this thread. Phew.
SaltyTard said:
Marijuana has roughly the same impairment as coffee, but in the opposite way. Coffee wires you up, marijuana calms you down. Neither is anything like alcohol, and neither impairs the ability to drive.
I can't seriously believe that you wrote that. I mean, 90% of what you say on this board is pure rubbish, but to make the assertion that Marijuana has "roughly the same impairment as coffee" is asinine. Screw asinine, it's Mad Max, beyond Dumbass Dome. Holy **** Salty, pull your head out. If you smoke weed, you get high. If you're high, you're impaired. If you're impaired and you drive, you're just as dangerous as some *** face who is drinking. This really is black and white: Either you're impaired or you're not.
TheTard said:
Pot isn't like alcohol. I understand that alcohol impairs the ability to drive and anyone that has ever had a drink knows this. Pot, on the other hand, does not. And anyone that has ever smoked pot knows this.
Classic. And to put the icing on the cake:
Tard said:
Based on how it affected me back when I used to smoke weed, I would say that smoking weed would not make my driving any more dangerous. If anything I would say it makes you more cautious and pay more attention.
At this point Salty goes on to tell us all that smoking pot and driving is akin to taking Tums or Aspirin and driving. It's really not worth re-posting as I've already wasted enough time on this train wreck. In short, if you're high and you're driving, you're at a higher risk of killing yourself or someone else. Don't F'ing do it, it's not worth it.
