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Over 40% of deceased drivers in vehicle crashes test positive for THC: Study

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Re: Over 40% of deceased drivers in vehicle crashes test positive for THC: Study

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Post by 4q34qq »

n8cpdx wrote: post #101
Sparkle-san wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Got any real sources? I've been a daily user for over 10 years and also have a spotless driving record.

It depends on the level of your habitual use. A 5mg gummy every evening is probably fine. I’ve seen plenty of people who are essentially using THC vapes like nicotine vapes, in that they use them every few hours and start to get anxious if they don’t. Stoned driving has become normalized - between seeing people lighting up behind the wheel on snap map, seeing it on TV (this happened in The Rehearsal season 1), and se…

I've been high basically for 15 years straight and was a professional athlete during that time in a sport that requires a lot of coordination. I know many other athletes that are heavy users, the majority of the best athletes I've ever known were actually. So how do you think that works?

I don't trust anyone else on the road because all of you are comically bad drivers compared to someone like me.

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Post by VerifiedReports »

lamontcg wrote: post #319
VerifiedReports wrote: post #195

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Obviously. But the comment said TURN LANE.

Read it again. They didn't say the middle lane was a turn lane.

Nobody said he did. He said the RIGHT lane was a TURN LANE. Which means the lane to the left of it could count on the people TURNING, not going straight.

WTF, YOU made the comment: "If the right lane goes straight"

You might as well say, "if the people on the opposite side of the road cross the median..."

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Post by yesbabyyes »

n8cpdx wrote: post #101
Sparkle-san wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Got any real sources? I've been a daily user for over 10 years and also have a spotless driving record.

It depends on the level of your habitual use. A 5mg gummy every evening is probably fine. I’ve seen plenty of people who are essentially using THC vapes like nicotine vapes, in that they use them every few hours and start to get anxious if they don’t. Stoned driving has become normalized - between seeing people lighting up behind the wheel on snap map, seeing it on TV (this happened in The Rehearsal season 1), and se…

> Kind of like vegans who haven’t tasted dairy for 10 years tend not to be reliable judges of the quality of vegan mayo - how could they possibly know?

Wait, how is mayo, vegan or not, related to dairy?

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Post by VerifiedReports »

baobun wrote: post #236
VerifiedReports wrote: post #195

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Obviously. But the comment said TURN LANE.

That would be the lane for turning, yes?

Yep. Which is why "If the right lane goes straight" doesn't make sense. We've already established that the right lane does NOT go straight, because it's a turn lane.

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Post by hattmall »

SoftTalker wrote: post #320
hattmall wrote: post #277

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It's seat belts. People who die in wrecks are overwhelmingly not wearing seat belts. I would think marijuana users as a group probably have average seat belt usage, but people who don't wear seat belts probably have much higher than average marijuanna usage. Roughy 92% of people wear seat belts. But that 8% of people that don't wear setbelts makes up 50% or more of all fatalities. From my personal experience it seems…

Is this a joke? The people who don't wear seatbelts are in my observation old folks who grew up without them or before using them was mandatory. It's just their habit. I've almost never seen a person under about age 40 not using a seatbelt.

No. I don't know a lot of people that don't wear seatbelts, but they all smoke weed. All of my friends that died in car wrecks weren't wearing seat belts and would have definitely tested positive for THC.

I don't know any old people that don't wear seatbelts.

The people I do know that don't wear seatbelts also live pretty otherwise high risk lives, drug dealers, strippers, street gang members,etc.

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Post by golem14 »

boston_clone wrote: post #400
cj wrote: post #367

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I mean weed really doesn't smell good. If you're not turned off by the smell, it's a learned pleasure. Similar to how nearly every child will dislike the taste of alcohol, yet after drinking for a while they'll learn to tolerate or enjoy it. It can be a very overpowering smell. When an odor overpowers, it's harder to discern one scent from another.

there are strains that, to me, smell pleasant. maybe you’re extrapolating a bit? terpenes are what make up most essential oils, in fact.

Mango, especially dried, smells and tastes of terpenes sometimes. I sometimes question why I like Mango ;)

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Post by golem14 »

bigstrat2003 wrote: post #406
malikolivier wrote: post #374

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I've never smelled cannabis before in my life and don't know what it's supposed to smell like. I live in an area of the world where it's illegal and I guess not many people are smoking it. I may also have had a quite sheltered education. This year, I went to British Columbia, and there was this weird scent everywhere that I could not describe. My wife said it was cannabis. I'm still not used to it so I don't know if…

In my experience, weed smells like a skunk. Which makes it really annoying to be around people who smoke, that stuff is really unpleasant to have to smell. Honestly I don't know how people can stand to smoke it with how bad it smells.

Am I the only one that doesn't find skunk smell not so horrid as it's generally made out to be? It's very strong, yes, but between skunk and asa foetida, it would be hard to choose ;)

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Post by sanex »

jmye wrote: post #376
sanex wrote: post #363

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The evidence is the n being 246 lol

What, specifically, would be an optimal sample size and why, specifically, is 246 insufficient, in this case? “Lol”

I'm not a statistician but when I know when I've only gotten 250 users through a split test it's not even worth looking at the results. So just for you I'm going to say 10,000 and geographically spread from more than one county in Ohio which contains a University.

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Post by sanex »

econ wrote: post #372

You wouldn't expect sober people to be more likely to die.

I remember reading that in an accident with one party intoxicated and the other not, the intoxicated party is more likely to survive because they are more relaxed and can take an impact better. But of course sober people are less likely to get into single car fatality causing accidents I'm sure.

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Post by rented_mule »

dpark wrote: post #402
boston_clone wrote: post #400

Earlier quoted context omitted.

there are strains that, to me, smell pleasant. maybe you’re extrapolating a bit? terpenes are what make up most essential oils, in fact.

I’ve never smelled pot that didn’t stink. It does not smell like a sewer to me but it distinctly smells like skunk.

A few years ago, I moved from San Francisco to a rural area. Smelling weed in SF was not at all unusual. One summer night in the rural area, I smelled it coming through open windows for the first time. I wondered which house it was coming from and how it still smelled so strong after traveling a hundred feet or more. Then I spotted the actual skunk in our yard.
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