You really think a company is going to care about whether you actually *got away with *the theft you intended before firing you? Or banning you, if you’re a customer instead of an employee?
You may have 2 - yes, 2! people saying it, you could have fifty, it still wouldn’t matter because you are not impartial. The pot issue aside, I may think I am a terrific driver, when I, for example, may tailgate, don’t stay in my lane, might be easily distracted, can’t park for shit, don’t signal, talk on the cell phone, etc…I cannot accurately judge my own skills, and neither can you.
Pot doesn’t make you drive into trees. It *does *fuck with your motor skills, your coordination, and your reaction times. Whether or not that results in you driving into a tree depends on (a) whether or not you decide to drive fucked up and (b) how you compensate while driving for the fact that you’re aware that you’re fucked up.
The big problem everyone here is having, Dio, is that you’ve asserted that pot has absolutely no effect on your ability to drive, when the major scientific concensus is that it absolutely does.
You realize that even the chunk you cited proves my point, right?
1.) “This program of research has shown that marijuana, when taken alone, produces a moderate degree of driving impairment which is related to the consumed THC dose.” There is impairment.
2.) “The impairment manifests itself mainly in the ability to maintain a steady lateral position on the road” It manifests in at least one measurable and demonstrable way.
3.) “Drivers under the influence of marijuana retain insight in their performance and will compensate, where they can, for example, by slowing down or increasing effort.” The fact that they’re compensating for the effects doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist; in fact, it proves it, for you can’t compensate for a nonexistent effect.
You will note that I have not stated that smoking pot will make you a *bad *or a *dangerous *driver; I’ve simply asserted that it can and does have an effect on your ability to drive.
That quote isn’t nearly the knockout blow you appear to think it is.
It does accord with my (admittedly subjective) observations - that being light-to-moderately stoned isn’t as dangerous as being the same amount of drunk, because generally the light-to-moderately stoned tend to compensate for the impairment.
That, however, acknowledges that there is a degree of ‘impairment’, of course.
There comes a point, as anyone who has smoked a lot of weed ought to know, where one is simply too stoned to ‘compensate’ any more. Hell, I’ve been too stoned to walk to the door, let alone drive!
What do you say to all the studies that show that stoned driving does not have any more likelihood than average of causing an accident? There is a great deal of evidence that smoking causes cancer. There is NO evidence that driving stoned causes car accidents.
It doesn’t matter if it makes them more likely–the point is that there IS an effect. It doesn’t matter if it’s a good effect, or a bad effect, or a bad effect that can be compensated for (and often is)–IT’S A FUCKING EFFECT.
Honestly, why do you even keep posting here, if you just keep pulling this “I am my own cite” bullshit?