I can’t see how I would be able to be sure it was pot, and not tobacco.
If, however, I were sure…hell, yes, I’d make that call. No different from if they’re drinking, distracted by a phone, distracted by a dog, distracted by a kid, doing their nails, reading a newspaper (I’ve seen it!) whatever. That kind of driving is not a victimless crime.
First: Cite that anyone claims mild marijuana intoxication never impairs driving. No cite? Fine, but let’s write more precisely in future please.
Second: Your link ignores the relevant asked question: How does cannabis impairment compare with alcohol impairment? BAC=0.08 represents eleven times the risk (vs 2x for cannabis) of sober (cite) and much higher BAC is common among drunks driving. Hence your data just confirms the “pro-cannabis” claims. 
BTW, I notice your linked title has “acute cannabis consumption” and your synopsis has “mild marijuana intoxication.” Admittedly, the range of cannabis intoxication may be greater than alcohol intoxication, e.g. as measured by the ratio of dosages needed for giddiness vs incapacitation.
Okay. Here it is again, from post 8:
As I said, I agree with Bob that this is information that is commonly passed around, though I beg to differ with him about there ever having been an actual study behind it.
Au contraire. If you’d kindly reread our exchange, you’ll notice that that particular question was neither relevant nor asked until you brought it up in your last post.
Now, shall we write a bit less superciliously next time, septimus? Yes, I think we shall. Good day to you and toodle pip!
Yes. If it was possible, I’d get their car license plate number, pull over and call the police and report it. It would be the same if I saw someone driving and drinking a bottle of beer or something, or saw someone driving very erratically and dangerously. I would try to get their license plate number, I’d pull over, and I’d report it to the police. Someone like that could end up killling someone, so I believe it is everyone’s business to report something like that.
I’d change lanes.
My boyfriend rarely drives *without *smoking weed. Obviously, no, I don’t do anything about it.
There are other cultures who smoke loose tobacco from pipes and hand rolled cigarettes that from a distance look like it could be marijuana. I don’t know how you could be sure what they are smoking is illegal unless you’re just making assumptions.
Yeah, and I’m sure the police respond to each and every call they’d get too from people who think they see someone smoking a doobie in a car on the road.
The study you linked (or at least the article you linked about the study) doesn’t really say much in regard to how much pot was consumed. I’m often skeptical about the “I drive better while high!” trope. However, that article doesn’t give us much that we can say in general, considering it draws its results only from whether “cannabis [was] consumed”. Also that results taken through blood samples wouldn’t be accurate in adding data points to their “within 12-hour window”.
I bet if I ran a study on people who drank one beer and then drove, I could produce similar results that say “When alcohol is consumed, there is little to no effect on driving,” even though we know that’s crap when speaking in generalities. So either the study itself is bad or the article is.
Of course. To not do so puts other drivers in danger.
How? Did the pipe have “Marijuana Only” written on the side?
So does every driver you see speeding or weaving in and out of traffic or whatever.
As well as every driver talking on the phone rather then keeping his eye on the road and his hands on the wheel.* One* of the Junior G-Men upthread said he’d pull over before calling the cops. Most of them obviously plan to make that call while driving…
This. It’s a legal issue, not a safety one.
I would not.
I wouldn’t think of calling the popo unless they were actually doing something. Now, I know that driving high isn’t exactly ideal but my boyfriend does drive for hours every day, my baby is ALWAYS high (I’m not a huge fan of that but it does vastly predate me and I’ve been around for a decade) and he’s a black dude with a nice car without a valid license, so…draw your own conclusions.
He drives hours a day without a valid license?? Black or white, high or not, that just seems like a recipe for trouble. Unless I misread this.
How do you know they weren’t smoking ice?
Psychic ability, presumably.
No…if they’re not clearly driving irradically…mind your business!!!It’s not that big of a thing people! Guessin the people sayin that they would have busted him have not tried the evil weed…lol