Smoking a joint and driving.

[marty21]

i have driven after a spliff but wouldn't do it again

 

[fela fan]

A guy stops outside my house & skins one up before driving away from the city & out a country road almost every weeknight.

I remember the last time this came up, someone posted Canadian research that suggested people driving after a smoke may actually be safer than sober drivers. Anyone know if this has been further explored.

Personally, I'm in the not a good thing camp.

The only problem driving when stoned is forgetting where the hell you are for a few seconds at a time.

As with drink though, if you've gotten yourself thoroughly stoned, maybe not a good idea. But one spliff, and you're away, nice and slow, careful, enjoying yourself, reaction times not impaired in the slightest, no road rage...

 

[Spion]

Late at night on the motorway with the sounds turned up is a lovely way to drive

Riding a motorbike 25 miles on mushrooms was quite memorable too, but that's one I won't be doing again

 

[Spion]

As with drink though, if you've gotten yourself thoroughly stoned, maybe not a good idea. But one spliff, and you're away, nice and slow, careful, enjoying yourself, reaction times not impaired in the slightest, no road rage...

Aye. You just need to give the brain a little tickle. Too much is not good

 

[Yetman]

Again, I used to think the same, but have changed me mind over the years.

We'll agree to disagree on this I think, as I am right, and you only think you are

I might be wrong, its just my opinion. If I ever crash (which I havent once in 9 years of driving) then I'll let you know so you can cream yourself dry in your smuggery

 

[Brainaddict]

reaction times not impaired in the slightest

Have you measured that properly? With the way weed distorts time perception I can't see how you can tell. It seems very unlikely to me.

 

[sojourner]

If I ever crash (which I havent once in 9 years of driving) then I'll let you know so you can cream yourself dry in your smuggery

Ta mate

 

[jontz01]

Riding a motorbike 25 miles on mushrooms was quite memorable too, but that's one I won't be doing again

8 Hours after I'd ingested, and 3 after I'd come back down, I rode home. Thought I was fine, I'd been smoking all night too... I stopped at a set of traffic lights only to discover that they were on 'blue'. I had no idea whether to wait, go or giggle. I was 18 back then and on a 125 scooter, never again.

24 now, VERY occasionally I'll have a j and take my bike from my house up to my parents to lock it up. It's a 1 minute ride up a quiet road but on a 900 I get really paranoid an should really know better...

 

[Yetman]

Ta mate

S'alright mate

In case its fatal I'll leave a note in a locket round my neck so my family can let you know

 

[jontz01]

On a seperate note, a lot of wagon drivers are tokers.... Unless that's just because I know I lot of tokers and some happen to be wagon drivers...

That's why they made king size rizla innit!

 

[Poi E]

Used to in my youth. But back then I had a fuck off fast car and wore a baseball cap the wrong way round, so I was clearly a complete twat.

Bad idea. A huge lump of killer steel needs a sober brain.

 

[sojourner]

S'alright mate

In case its fatal I'll leave a note in a locket round my neck so my family can let you know

You're very special, you know that yetty? Very special















needs



THAT WASN'T ME! ^^

 

[fela fan]

Have you measured that properly? With the way weed distorts time perception I can't see how you can tell. It seems very unlikely to me.

It's just my subjective judgment based on my experience. I feel very much sharper after a smoke than not.

But where these kinds of arguments break down is how we drive. For example on most roads you can take precautions over reaction time. If i'm driving three or four seconds behind a car, then that leaves me so much more time to react than some fucker right up my arse half a second or less behind me.

The biggest menaces on the roads are speedsters, with or without dope or alcohol in their blood. And if yer stoned, chances are you're in no rush to get where you're going...

 

[Spion]

8 Hours after I'd ingested, and 3 after I'd come back down, I rode home.

With me it was on an ancient Yam 250 2 stroke about 25 years ago. And was at the height of the trip. All went well (apart from a freaked out pillion passenger and the sensation of constant car horns - on a mostly empty road.) I could never figure out how I managed to get round the roundabouts

 

[sam/phallocrat]

I don't drive, but I've performed spliff-building duties for many a mission, including numerous Snake Pass crosses (that's a cunt of a road to skin up on) and lotds of motorway driving. Strangely enough, it doesn't really bother me. I appreciate people's concerns but suspect that they are, in the whole, based on presumption amd emotion (and perhaps the odd 'experience') rather than on evidence. As has been stated, very little time has been devoted to the effects of driving whilst blazed whilst we all know about the incontrovertible dangers of drink driving.

 

[sam/phallocrat]

Used to in my youth. But back then I had a fuck off fast car and wore a baseball cap the wrong way round, so I was clearly a complete twat.

Do you wear it the right way round now?

 

[Poi E]

Do you wear it the right way round now?

Nope. They're for baldies, yanks and home boys.

 

[Yetman]

You're very special, you know that yetty? Very special

Thats what auntie mum and uncle dad used to say to me

Before they put me in the room

 

[Lock&Light]

(looks like we a car full now, me and the aptly named passenger in the front, dirty santa and yetman building joints in the back)

I'd join you with no. 3 in the driving seat.

 

[thursdog]

That's as idiotic as saying that someone who drinks regularly gets used to the effects of the alcohol and compensates for it.

They may think that they're safe but that just proves what an irresponsible twat they are.

did you not read my next post cobbles?http://www.urban75.net/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=6818504&postcount=24

 

[DrRingDing]

Drink driving is and driving when stoned is different, although both impair you ability.

I hate driving whilst stoned, just because I get overwhelmed by all the different variables screaming at me for attention plus I end up thinking the old bill are lurking around for me.

Not what I'd call very pleasant.

 

[Spion]

Drink driving is and driving when stoned is different, although both impair you ability.

I hate driving whilst stoned, just because I get overwhelmed by all the different variables screaming at me for attention plus I end up thinking the old bill are lurking around for me.

Not what I'd call very pleasant.

The trick is to just give the brain a little tickle, not get completely neanderthal-ed

 

[*Miss Daisy*]

The trick is to just give the brain a little tickle, not get completely neanderthal-ed

agreed

 

[bi0boy]

It's just my subjective judgment based on my experience. I feel very much sharper after a smoke than not.

But where these kinds of arguments break down is how we drive. For example on most roads you can take precautions over reaction time. If i'm driving three or four seconds behind a car, then that leaves me so much more time to react than some fucker right up my arse half a second or less behind me.

The biggest menaces on the roads are speedsters, with or without dope or alcohol in their blood. And if yer stoned, chances are you're in no rush to get where you're going...

The biggest menaces are not speedsters but those who fail to anticipate and react to hazards sufficiently. You may think you have sharper reaction times, but on acid I knew that most people were being controlled by aliens in orbit using microwaves.

 

[Swearing Nonna]

(looks like we a car full now, me and the aptly named passenger in the front, dirty santa and yetman building joints in the back)

Then I think we need a bigger car cos there's no room for me

I've voted for option 2 - I'll drive after smoking a joint or drive while smoking a joint.

I echo what others have said about tolerance levels. I've smoked for about 20 years and (for me) it's about the taste rather than the effect these days, it's not often I get 'stoned'.

I'd say I am mindful that I've been smoking and driving as much as when I've had a pint and got in the car. I tend to drive more carefully than when I've been rollie smoking/tea drinking.

 

[Swearing Nonna]

I appreciate people's concerns but suspect that they are, in the whole, based on presumption amd emotion (and perhaps the odd 'experience') rather than on evidence. As has been stated, very little time has been devoted to the effects of driving whilst blazed whilst we all know about the incontrovertible dangers of drink driving.

Yes sam, I suspect this too.

 

[Kanda]

I don't get why people are arguing about driving under the influence of anything.

Cars are heavy, people are fragile. End of.

Why bother? Why put it down to chance or stubborness?

Just don't chance it. Tis stupid no?

 

[chymaera]

I don't get why people are arguing about driving under the influence of anything.

Cars are heavy, people are fragile. End of.

Why bother? Why put it down to chance or stubborness?

Just don't chance it. Tis stupid no?

Very stupid and when the police start using the new kit currently under test for Field Impairment Testing of drivers at the roadside I will be a very happy man. I have been campaigning for it for long enough.

 

[Radar]

If the proposed kits actually test for impairment, then yes I'm with the cops all the way !

If they take the easy route and go for roadside detection of [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]cannabis metabolites then they can fuck right off
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[chymaera]

If the proposed kits actually test for impairment, then yes I'm with the cops all the way !

It will be for impairment only. However if found to be impaired and then arrested, testing for what has caused the impairment can then be carried out.