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OfflineTiberjuggaligger
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Don’t blame pot for DUI problem * 1
    #24728427 - 10/22/17 12:07 AM (6 years, 5 months ago)

http://www.app.com/story/opinion/columnists/2017/10/20/marijuana-legalization-dui-nathan-franklin-carino/106843446/

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Let me preface this by saying I'm glad to post this response to the article they are talking about, as I posted that piece of drivel a few days ago. It's nice to see people taking the bs propaganda to task for being bs!
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In columnist Jerry Carino’s Oct. 16 oped, “There is one big problem with legalizing marijuana,” he promoted some misleading conclusions about available data on marijuana legalization. As a physician and a retired police major who pledge to do no harm and to protect the public, we want to set the record straight.

First, be clear that no one should ever drive impaired, but marijuana legalization has proven wrong those who predicted blood in the streets of legalized states. Despite Carino’s claim to the contrary, “stoned driving” has not unleashed mayhem on the roads of Colorado. The purported statistic that “weed-related traffic deaths” in the state have increased 48 percent since marijuana legalization is a good example. For that suspicious figure, Carino cites the Rocky Mountain High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area task force, which is well-known for cherry-picking data to intentionally paint an inaccurate and negative view of marijuana’s impact.

The task force specifically warned that reporting was “incomplete” and should not lead to “inferences concerning trends.” Yet Carino omits the advisory in his piece, presenting an uptick in alleged traffic fatalities as fact and predicting chaos in New Jersey.

Compared to fatal collision reports from the Colorado Department of Transportation from 2006 to 2014, the task force overstates the number of drivers testing positive for cannabis by an average of 29 percent.

Moreover, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration — the federal agency actually responsible for monitoring the potential impact of marijuana legalization — has said: “It is inadvisable to try and predict effects based on blood THC concentrations alone.” Thus, the fact that some drivers test positive for THC after an accident (which the task force deceivingly defines as “marijuana-related”) has little or no empirical value. The substance can stay in the system for weeks after consumption, as Carino himself acknowledges.

As Carino mentions, there is no standard lab test for assessing one’s level of marijuana intoxication, unlike the measure of alcohol intoxication with breathalyzers. In practice, however, that does not mean law enforcement in New Jersey will be unable to police our roads following legalization. New Jersey’s police officers are already trained to administer field sobriety tests to assess driver impairment from substance use.

While Carino’s article is misleading in a number of ways, his concern is not entirely misplaced. Driving while impaired by anything is a terrible idea, but keeping marijuana illegal is not a realistic way to avoid this risk. There is indeed evidence for an increased risk of accidents when you look at large populations of drivers under the influence of marijuana. But let’s put that evidence in perspective. The risk is on the order of a two- or three-fold increase in accidents, which is similar to the risk for drivers speaking on a hands-free cell phone. That’s also similar to the risk of a number of prescription medications that would only trigger a DUI accusation if the driver fails a field test or behaves erratically. By contrast, driving under the influence of alcohol poses a 13-fold risk of accident.

Ironically, Carino credits “increased education” for the fact that drunken driving fatalities have decreased by a third over the past three decades (which is true). But those accidents did not decrease because we banned alcohol and assumed no one would ever drink and get behind the wheel. The roads became safer because, as we found out in the 1920s, regulation and control make for better policy than prohibition. Rather than burying our heads in the sand, we ramped up education and promoted responsible policies to prevent driving while intoxicated. We need a similar policy in place for marijuana, but that can only happen if we legalize and regulate this plant.
Based on the facts, our organizations have come to understand that cannabis use should be controlled through legalization for adults, evidence-based prevention education for minors and close regulation of the industry.

Only legalization empowers the government to ensure safe production, testing, labeling, distribution and sale of cannabis. Only legalization will ensure someone is checking ID when marijuana is sold. And only with policies that match reality can we expect New Jersey’s drivers to heed our warnings about the actual risk of driving under the influence.

Dr. David Nathan is the Princeton-based founder and board president of Doctors for Cannabis Regulation. He is clinical associate professor of psychiatry at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. Major Neill Franklin (Ret.) is executive director of Law Enforcement Action Partnership.


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Re: Don’t blame pot for DUI problem [Re: Tiberjuggaligger]
    #24728439 - 10/22/17 12:16 AM (6 years, 5 months ago)

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The roads became safer because, as we found out in the 1920s, regulation and control make for better policy than prohibition. Rather than burying our heads in the sand, we ramped up education and promoted responsible policies to prevent driving while intoxicated. We need a similar policy in place for marijuana, but that can only happen if we legalize and regulate this plant.




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Re: Don’t blame pot for DUI problem [Re: ShabbyRabbit]
    #24731101 - 10/23/17 09:01 AM (6 years, 5 months ago)

Well the Feds are currently looking at legalization, so contact your senators and congressman, so we dont have to deal with these BS laws for much longer.

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Re: Don’t blame pot for DUI problem [Re: Micromicology]
    #24731490 - 10/23/17 12:11 PM (6 years, 5 months ago)

We have just excused more stamp tax shenanigans, on the grounds that authoritarians will use the money to 'educate' us.


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