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Title: California drug dealers fear legalized pot
Post by: Bobboau on April 06, 2010, 08:33:47 pm
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Title: Re: California drug dealers fear legalized pot
Post by: jdjtcagle on April 06, 2010, 08:37:32 pm
*facepalm*  :lol:
Title: Re: California drug dealers fear legalized pot
Post by: FUBAR-BDHR on April 06, 2010, 08:40:21 pm
Well if they have the best they shouldn't have to worry.  It will be like top shelf booze.  People will pay the extra for it.  
Title: Re: California drug dealers fear legalized pot
Post by: MP-Ryan on April 06, 2010, 08:50:03 pm
Well if they have the best they shouldn't have to worry.  It will be like top shelf booze.  People will pay the extra for it.  

Everyone knows that marijuana from BC is better than anything else in North America.  Hell, my sole exposure to the stuff was seizing it as evidence and even *I* can tell what's BC weed and what isn't. :P
Title: Re: California drug dealers fear legalized pot
Post by: Flipside on April 06, 2010, 11:52:23 pm
Heh, I just can't help remembering how much of Afghanistans national income used to come from the drug trade, but stopping them from getting that money is apparently a good thing ;)

I'm fine with the idea of legalisation of pot, so long as there is a test available that allows levels to be tested in drivers, since I think driving while stoned is just as dangerous as driving while drunk, and I don't really care what happens to the people who are already growing it, they'll have to take to the free market. It'd be quite funny to see in a way ;)
Title: Re: California drug dealers fear legalized pot
Post by: NGTM-1R on April 07, 2010, 12:48:51 am
I'm fine with the idea of legalisation of pot, so long as there is a test available that allows levels to be tested in drivers, since I think driving while stoned is just as dangerous as driving while drunk, and I don't really care what happens to the people who are already growing it, they'll have to take to the free market.

The problem with that is there isn't.  You can't breathalyze someone for weed, you need a blood test.
Title: Re: California drug dealers fear legalized pot
Post by: Bobboau on April 07, 2010, 12:50:19 am
I thought a pee test could do it?
Title: Re: California drug dealers fear legalized pot
Post by: NGTM-1R on April 07, 2010, 12:51:00 am
I thought a pee test could do it?

Possibly, but then it takes about fifteen minutes to show up. :P
Title: Re: California drug dealers fear legalized pot
Post by: Bobboau on April 07, 2010, 12:59:57 am
well that's better than a blood test, yes?
Title: Re: California drug dealers fear legalized pot
Post by: Kosh on April 07, 2010, 01:20:33 am
But but but what about our VALUES? :p
Title: Re: California drug dealers fear legalized pot
Post by: Snail on April 07, 2010, 04:29:29 am
I'm fine with the idea of legalisation of pot, so long as there is a test available that allows levels to be tested in drivers, since I think driving while stoned is just as dangerous as driving while drunk, and I don't really care what happens to the people who are already growing it, they'll have to take to the free market.
The problem with that is there isn't.  You can't breathalyze someone for weed, you need a blood test.
Wasn't there some kind of eye test too?
Title: Re: California drug dealers fear legalized pot
Post by: Wolfy on April 07, 2010, 05:33:54 am
I thought a pee test could do it?

Only assumeing the person stopped really needs to go to the toilet. I guess you COULD force feed them a coupleof litres of water though....
Title: Re: California drug dealers fear legalized pot
Post by: headdie on April 07, 2010, 07:15:10 am
I'm fine with the idea of legalisation of pot, so long as there is a test available that allows levels to be tested in drivers, since I think driving while stoned is just as dangerous as driving while drunk, and I don't really care what happens to the people who are already growing it, they'll have to take to the free market.
The problem with that is there isn't.  You can't breathalyze someone for weed, you need a blood test.
Wasn't there some kind of eye test too?

not sure which one it is but one class of drugs prevents you from crossing your eyes hence that step in the American field sobriety test and the version of it we recently started using in the UK
Title: Re: California drug dealers fear legalized pot
Post by: iamzack on April 07, 2010, 08:40:56 am
If you smoke, you will test positive (at least with the pee test) for days or weeks... we need a way to test whether someone is high right then.
Title: Re: California drug dealers fear legalized pot
Post by: Dilmah G on April 07, 2010, 09:26:49 am
How do the European countries who have amounts of marijuana legalized for personal consumption or whatever deal with stoned drivers?
Title: Re: California drug dealers fear legalized pot
Post by: Turambar on April 07, 2010, 09:28:21 am
they probably don't, since nobody gets pulled over for going 15 under the speed limit
Title: Re: California drug dealers fear legalized pot
Post by: Flipside on April 07, 2010, 10:41:07 am
There were some tests in the UK for some on-the-spot detectors, but I seem to recall they didn't work accurately enough.

Turambar has a point that most stoned people tend to drive pretty slowly, but I suppose my concern is concentration, it's very hard to focus on things when you have smoked cannabis, or rather, too easy to be distracted by something else, I don't want to be mown down by a car doing 12 miles an hour because the guy got hypnotized by his own dashboard ;)

Other than that, considering that pot is considerably less dangerous than Tobacoo or Alcohol, I don't really have a problem.
Title: Re: California drug dealers fear legalized pot
Post by: iamzack on April 07, 2010, 10:53:17 am
Turambar hit a pedestrian while sober a couple weeks ago. The driver's sobriety will not protect you/
Title: Re: California drug dealers fear legalized pot
Post by: Flipside on April 07, 2010, 10:54:30 am
Agreed, but it does lessen the possibility that the accident will be caused by lack of attention, you'll never stop accidents entirely.