Okay, shit like this just pisses me off to no end. I just read this article on CBC about the RCMP catching people who get high and drive. I'm not going to get into mad detail right now about why smoking weed and driving is actually not insanely dangerous. No, it's not. There have been many studies done. It's been found that drivers who are high, drive at a slower and steadier rate, take more precautions and fewer chances, and are less likely to cause an accident than a sober person. At any rate, that's not what pisses me off, of course I expect law enforcement to push some bullshit view about marijuana. What makes me boil with rage is this; in the article, they have some civilians talk about how driving high is normal and not a problem, then the article goes on to say,"That kind of mistaken information is what prompted a new media campaign aimed at drivers who get high before they get behind the wheel.
Bob Rorison, who is now the local president of MADD, was injured in an accident by a driver who was high on cocaine and booze. The driver only served two months in jail."
COCAINE AND BOOZE! They're trying to tell me, and you, and everyone else, that driving while high on cocaine and drunk is the same as smoking a bowl??? You want to know why some misinformed people try 'serious' drugs after trying marijuana? Because the powers that be actually have people believing they're equivalent, and when they smoke pot, they realize that it's no big deal, and then assume that since, for example, cocaine is apparently the same as marijuana, that it would be alright to try that too. It's total shit! THEY ARE NOT THE SAME! You will get no argument from me that you should get drunk and strung out drivers off the streets, but don't you dare try and say that some asshole at a road check who is all fucked up on cocaine (or heroin, or pcp, or crank, or whatever) and wasted on liquor is the equivalent of a stoned driver. Besides, alcohol on it's own or in combination with anything else will always produce dangerous driving. Do not ever come to me foaming at the mouth, spewing misinformation and then accuse the public of being misinformed. Police, government, lobby/activist groups fucking disgust me sometimes...okay, most times.
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