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Old 08-22-2015, 10:59   #1
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Washington legalizes marijuana and with it driving death doubles in one year

Washington legalizes marijuana and with it driving deaths doubles in one year


Sure are some extremely intelligent socialists in Washington State. Let's make Seattle a Sanctuary/Drug User City!!!! (Already is...)



Washington Marijuana-Related Traffic Fatalities Double After Pot Legalized

by William Bigelow21 Aug 20151,328


According to the Washington Traffic Safety Commission, an exponential increase in the number of deaths involving marijuana-impaired drivers occurred between 2013 and 2014, reports KOIN.

Marijuana was legalized in the state of Washington in 2014; between 2010 and 2013 the number of marijuana-impaired drivers involved in fatal crashes ranged from 32 to 38 per year. But in 2014, after pot became legal, that number skyrocketed to 75. In half of the 2014 cases, the drug-addled drivers tested above the state’s legal limit for being under the influence of the drug while driving. Many of the heavily-drugged drivers also tested positive for alcohol or other kinds of drugs.

KOIN reported that commission member Shelly Baldwin noted the number of alcohol-related fatal crashes has plunged.

Three times the number of dead drivers had legal marijuana in their system nationwide in 2010 compared to 1999, according to a study from Columbia University. The study found that marijuana use was part of roughly 4 percent of fatal crashes in 1999 and 12 percent in 2010.


http://www.breitbart.com/big-governm...pot-legalized/
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Old 08-22-2015, 19:27   #2
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total coincidence...
...smoking weed is a victim-less crime
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Old 08-24-2015, 02:06   #3
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I don't buy that for a minute. I'd like to see the numbers on how the field-testing has been ramped up since its legalization. Marijuana can stay in the system for over 30 days after last use, and combine that with the
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Many of the heavily-drugged drivers also tested positive for alcohol or other kinds of drugs.
and you have the ingredients for a red herring. That of course is just one mans opinion, YMMV.
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Old 08-24-2015, 04:00   #4
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Liberal policy killing liberals. Where is the problem?
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Old 08-24-2015, 08:09   #5
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"Skyrocketed to 75"!!!!!
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Old 08-24-2015, 08:26   #6
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75 for THC vs the >400 due to C2H5OH? Sounds as if they've got a ways to go before achieving chemically altered behavioral social parity up there in spotted owl granola land - but let's not forget, "Impaired lives matter."

http://www-nrd.nhtsa.dot.gov/Pubs/812188.pdf

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