[quote]jjackkrash wrote:
[quote]ZEB wrote:
[quote]Chushin wrote:
[quote]MaximusB wrote:
[quote]Testy1 wrote:
[quote]ZEB wrote:
atypical1 wrote:
legalize pot but make it illegal to drive in an altered state
I had to single this one out because it’s so very wrong minded. Now tell me again how legalizing alcohol but making it illegal to drive under the influence has saved lives? 50,000 deaths due to driving under the influence each year. Before it was legal perhaps 100 or so.
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Might want to put those numbers back in your ass where pulled them from. In 2010 there where a TOTAL of 32,788 fatalities nationwide and the numbers keep dropping.
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Drivers More Likely to be Drugged than Drunk…
Drivers on California roads on weekend nights are more likely to have drugs than alcohol in their systems, according to a results of a survey released by state officials on Monday.
About 14 percent of drivers surveyed tested positive for drugs that could impair their ability to drive, according to the California Office of Traffic Safety. That’s nearly twice as many drivers as the 7.3 percent who tested positive for alcohol, according to the survey
In 2010, 30 percent of those killed drivers tested positive for legal or illegal drugs.
http://www.recordnet.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20121123/A_NEWS/211230308
Yes, we legalized it, and pink unicorns didn’t come to poop money.
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Geez, Max, 21% of drivers are D and/or A impaired?
That’s scary.
I think I’d stay at home.[/quote]
Just as I’ve been saying if pot were to be legalized we would have yet more people killed on our highways. The naive libertarian view of simply passing more laws would work about as well as the DWI laws have. 75,000 alcohol related deaths per year a little less than half because of traffic fatalities.
Now drivers in California have one more thing to worry about beyond those drinking and driving:
[quote]Drivers on California roads on weekend nights are more likely to have drugs than alcohol in their systems, according to a results of a survey released by state officials on Monday.
About 14 percent of drivers surveyed tested positive for drugs that could impair their ability to drive, according to the California Office of Traffic Safety. That’s nearly twice as many drivers as the 7.3 percent who tested positive for alcohol, according to the survey
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Legalizing pot is one of the worst ideas that I’ve ever heard.[/quote]
I don’t smoke pot and now that its legal in WA I still won’t and I won’t even if the feds legalize it and they sell it at Costco. I have some friends who are doctors, lawyers (and judges) and executives who do smoke pot and the fact that its illegal doesn’t seem to factor into the equation much for them, other than keeping it out of plain site. I just don’t think its any of the state’s business really, and if there are some negative social consequences to legalization: (1) they need to be balanced against the positives of legalization; and (2) sometimes negative effects are just the price of personal freedom.
If I could prove that, for example, banning formal religious practices would result in a net social good, you still wouldn’t be in favor of banning formal religious practices, would you? I wouldn’t, even if the proof was solid and I was otherwise against formal religion. Deference to personal freedom is often more important than utilitarian arguments for whether banning something creates a net social good, even if the utilitarian argument has merit.
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Then let’s not have any laws because they might interfere with personal freedom (eye roll). And if you say “no” to that, then where are YOU drawing the line? I am drawing the line in a place where we should have already learned a lesson. Suffering another 75,000 deaths per year because of yet another recreational drug is not my idea of freedom. It is however my idea of enslavement. Enslavement to an idea that the more illicit crap you can shove down your throat, up your nose or inhale into your lungs is something called freedom when in fact it is called DEATH.