Driving while stoned

Lol. Remember in Amsterdam once I booked in a hotel then went for a smoke, afterwards there was no way I could find my hotel again. Spent hours wandering up and down canals before I eventually found it.

 

The study I refer to was not nonsense nor made up. It was in a medical textbook in a university library. I read it years ago while doing research and I don't remeber the title of it. Why is it so hard to believe? It is like it says on some presciption medicine bottles- do not operate motor vechicles or heavy machinery until you learn how this medicine effects you. Marijuana is not a central nervous system depressant like alcohol or barbituates so it does directly negatively effect the brains ability to cooridinate muscle activity. There are many famous great jazz and other musicians that play instruments while stoned and no one has every said that smoking pot impairs a person ability to play an instrument. In fact, playing a musical instrument (well) is a lot harder then driving a car. For those of you that know baseball history, on June 12th, 1970 Dock Ellis pitched a no hitter (a perfect game) while high on LSD.I suppose some people would say that LSD impairs a person to play baseball, too.

I found a more recent study - "Researchers at the Dutch Institute for Road Safety Research analyzed blood tests from those in traffic accidents, and found that even people with blood alcohol between 0.5% and 0.8% (below the legal limit) had a five-fold increase in the risk of serious accident. Drivers above the legal alcohol limit were 15 times more likely to have a collision. Drugs like Valium and Rohypnol produced results similar to alcohol, while cocaine and opiates showed only a small but "not statistically significant" increase in accident risk. As for the marijuana-only users? They showed absolutely no increased risk of accidents at all." July 2004 Journal of Accident Analysis and Prevention.
from - http://www.cannabisculture.com/articles/4131.html


"They lie about marijuana. Tell you pot-smoking makes you unmotivated. Lie! When you're high, you can do everything you normally do just as well ... you just realize that it's not worth the f%cking effort. There is a difference."
--The Late Great Bill Hicks

 

Its seems like common sense to me that Marijuana wiil have a detrimental on driving skills. Smoke a bowl of my bud and tell me it dosn't slow you down. I have been driving on Marijuana when I couldn't tell if a hill was going up or down.

 

Marijuana is minor psychedelic, most of the effects are mental. So if you think it will effect you a certain way, it will effect you that way.

 

Smoke some of my bud and tell yourself I'm not stoned . Doubt this will work.

 

I ride my m/bike when Im pretty wasted.. feels fucking amazing, the other day felt like I was sitting about a meter into my seat and that the gas tank was up around my chest with my arms were stretched out for miles, also I can hear everything that is happening in my engine, the gear driven cams spinning as I opened the gas, really felt the engine squirm and the exhaust note change, it sounds like a 50 piece orchestra when Im high.. it really does add another dimension while I ride. But I try not to make a habbit of it

 

A friend of mine has a Triumph Bonaville 750. Was on the back stoned , what a trip the vibration was amazing. Proper Hog.

 

Its a fact that some people can handle pot better then others. You can't deny that statement. One guy will smoke a joint and not be that high at all as opposed to the other guy who smoked a joint of the same weed and was blazed out of his mind.

 

Tolerance obviously plays a part but I defy anybody to smoke the likes of Amnesia Haze and not be blazed.

 

when i was stoned i actually waited at a stop sign for 5 minutes waiting for it to turn green... so yeah, it makes me a safer driver lol

 

The only time I drive if I'm high is when I'm coming down, and when no one else is out on the road. I refuse to get in a car if I'm coming up or peaking, or if traffic is some-what dense. Luckily I live in an area that doesn't have a lot of traffic, though.

The thing I've noticed about getting in my car and driving, is that while I'm driving, I don't seem stoned at all. As soon as I get out of the car, however, I can feel the effects. I've never been brazen enough to try driving while I was peaking or anything; to me that just seems like not such a great idea.

 

Remember having to drive peaking on 'E' my mate picked up two girls at the dico as I had a car if we were to get them back to there house I had to drive. What a night.

 

Through driving 50+ miles in rush hour traffic round trip to school and back every day for 2 years and driving to at least 6 hours to various locations throughout Toronto countless times since I was 15 I think I do have a lot of experience on the road. Probably more than a lot of people ten years older than me. But it's not even a question of experience. Weed doesn't impair your driving much in the first place.

 

If a person is high all day, every day, for many years, they are going to be use to it. If fact, they have to get high just to function normally.


"You see, I think drugs have done some good things for us. I really do. And if you don't believe drugs have done good things for us, do me a favour. Go home tonight. Take all your albums, all your tapes and all your CDs and burn them. 'Cause you know what, the musicians that made all that great music that's enhanced your lives throughout the years ... rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrreal f*cking high on drugs. The Beatles were so fucking high they let Ringo sing a few songs." -
-- Bill Hicks

 

I used to have a mate that smoke drove.....Enough Said

 

I don't really agree that you can compare driving to playing an instrument. Weed may make you appreciate music but I very much doubt it makes you play 'technically better.' Sid Barret used to take drugs looked what happened to his musical talents. It all depends how much you take, as I said earlier smoke a few bowls of dank bud and you are not fit to drive in my opinion.

 

As far as playing instruments high, I find that it makes me more creative but technically sluggish. So its a trade off. Sometimes it slows me down. Sometimes I'm really thinking outstide the box and come up with something great.

As far as driving, I think its ok to be stoned to a point but I've had some moments where I was driving really blasted and ran a stop sign or made a left turn when the oncoming traffic was getting a little too close, or other things that could have been potentially dangerous.

 

I did it once and didnt do too bad. I was very careful and then decided I'd let my mom to take over. I probably will drive stoned once I get more used to driving.

 

Bacon good answer man