[Bobboau]

lulz

[jdjtcagle]

*facepalm* 

[FUBAR-BDHR]

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.  

[MP-Ryan]

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.

[Flipside]

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

[NGTM-1R]

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.

[Bobboau]

I thought a pee test could do it?

[NGTM-1R]

I thought a pee test could do it?

Possibly, but then it takes about fifteen minutes to show up.

[Bobboau]

well that's better than a blood test, yes?

[Kosh]

But but but what about our VALUES?

[Snail]

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?

[Wolfy]

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....

[headdie]

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

[iamzack]

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.

[Dilmah G]

How do the European countries who have amounts of marijuana legalized for personal consumption or whatever deal with stoned drivers?

[Turambar]

they probably don't, since nobody gets pulled over for going 15 under the speed limit

[Flipside]

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.

[iamzack]

Turambar hit a pedestrian while sober a couple weeks ago. The driver's sobriety will not protect you/

[Flipside]

Agreed, but it does lessen the possibility that the accident will be caused by lack of attention, you'll never stop accidents entirely.