Marijuana
 

I like facts over fear and misunderstanding.

Regulating Marijuana Works! | Yes on Amendment 64: The Colorado Campaign to Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol

http://www.wbko.com/home/headlines/C...248973621.html

DENVER (AP) -- Colorado, where recreational marijuana is legal, is now trying to combat stoned driving in the state.

The Colorado Department of Transportation has come out with a $1 million ad campaign called "Drive High, Get a DUI," which reminds drivers that pot should be treated like alcohol.

One ad shows a spaced-out basketball player at the foul line in a playground, endlessly dribbling while his teammates wait in frustration.

Another ad shows a middle-aged man who hangs a flat-screen TV and celebrates with some tortilla chips and salsa, only to see the TV crash to the floor and shatter.

Bob Ticer, the chairman of Colorado's Interagency Task Force on Drunk Driving, says, "Enforcement is very important when it comes to impaired driving, but education is equally important."

The Colorado State Patrol says since January, about one-half of all the impaired drivers stopped in the state had smoked marijuana.

People possessing common sense understand the intentional/unintentional consequences of enacting these laws

WBKO Radio. Really?

Your right and I commend the millions of Colorado citizens that steeped up to be one of the early states. We must not allow old the sky is falling mentality to slow the evolution of our country. CO will go into the history books as Hero's in years to come.

This is like the fourth thread on marijuana this week. Lou, are you stoned?

Just trying to get out the facts to counter the false statements from others. Note, I use sources and there not just silly talking heads.

Interesting, even Governor Jerry Moonbeam Brown in California has come to his senses saying that last thing we need is every walking around stoned - we have to get things done and that condition certainly doesn't contribute to productivity.

He's wrong.

Yes, definately lots of threads on marijuana this week and I'm ready for another snack again. First I got to look thru the blinds at the yard.

That's what I'm wondering ... is there an obsession here?

We've already got two votes going on the topics of recreational and medical use.

Sounds like a new age paradise, and one of the many predictable negative outcomes from legalization with more to follow no doubt.

He's wrong about exactly what? and what evidence do you have to refute what you think he is wrong about?

Thoughtful
 

It is interesting that there is a very limited if any who have actually compared the bad effects of marjuana and any good sides. This includes the few who have done any homework on the physical and mental harms created by the drug. We have the ones who like to compare this gateway drug to alcohol and ignore the serious and medical harm pot does, (e.g. harm to unborn babies, shrinks the stem of the brain, serious medical harm to persons 18 and under and brain damage to those older adults. and many many etc's.) How many have seen a drug abuser or alcoholic in the throws of a seizure? I promise you that once you have witnessed that you will have second thoughts about drugs and drinking.
To end this I suggest you take a sponge, put it in the sun and let it really dry out and then put it in your hands and squeeze it hard and watch it crumple into sand. You have now witnessed cirrous of the liver. How are drugged and medically impaired citizens building a better community, family life, etc. :bowdown:

[QUOTE=Golfingnut;841285]WBKO Radio. Really?[/QUOTE




Colorado is spending $1 million on television ads making fun of marijuana users who space out during everyday tasks - an effort to stop stoned driving.



Happens to be WBKO TV Station not radio, but it is a good example of the problem with pot.

Here's another copy of the story from a different source:

http://www.myfoxdetroit.com/story/24...stoned-driving

Excerpt from the story:

Washington, the only other state that has legalized recreational pot, saw more than 1,300 drivers test positive for marijuana last year - that's almost 25 percent more than in 2012.

Of those, 720 had levels high enough to lead to an automatic drugged driving conviction, though Washington officials say there's been no corresponding jump in car accidents.

Colorado's $1 million ad campaign, which begins March 10, comes from a federal grant from the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration.

A Spanish-language ad campaign is launching next week, too. Those ads show a man blowing smoke and the message, "When you use marijuana, don't drive."

Dispensary owners helped develop the Colorado ads and plan to voluntarily hand out brochures and hang "Drive High, Get a DUI" posters.

"We recognize our duty to be a part of the DUID conversation," said Elan Nelson, a dispensary worker who is vice chairwoman of the state's Medical Marijuana Industry Group.

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Associated Press Writer Gene Johnson in Seattle contributed to this report.

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Kristen Wyatt can be reached at http://www.twitter.com/APkristenwyatt



Read more: http://www.myfoxdetroit.com/story/24...#ixzz2vKjLk6Cd