Saturday, December 03, 2005
Let’s Hope This Ends the “Legalize It” Campaign
You can tell the world is becoming neurotic when we want to ban smoking and legalize marijauana. Well, lets hope this story from the London Telegraph makes people think twice…
From the Friday on-line Daily Telegraph (London):
Driving while high on cannabis triples risk of fatal crash http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;jsessionid=3LURLJHEORO5VQFIQMGSFFOAVCBQWIV0?xml=/news/2005/12/02/ndope02.xml&sSheet=/news/2005/12/02/ixhome.html
This is of course one of those “well-duh” moments. Getting stoned on pot makes your brain go all “wobbly and wonky” to use an old British phrase. Even small amounts of pot increase the risk of a being in a deadly crash by 89%. “High” usage (haha) triples the risk.
Can we get this straight...pot smoking damages the brain and impares the individual’s motor functions. But of course, pot smoking isn’t dangerous....
