Another truth to dispel the myth that Marijuana is a safe drug.
The Chicago Tribune article titled, Fatal crashes increasingly tied to drugs, expert says, reposts the findings of GHSA. The Government Agency reports a growing percentage of drivers who die in road crashes test positive for drugs including Marijuana and Opioids, and Alcohol.
“Too many people operate under the false belief that marijuana or opioids don’t impair their ability to drive, or even that these drugs make them safer drivers,” noted GHSA Executive Director Jonathan Adkins. “Busting this myth requires states to expand their impaired driving campaigns to include marijuana and opioids along with alcohol to show drivers that impairment is impairment, regardless of substance.”
King Solomon
Your eyes will see strange sights, and your mind will imagine confusing things. (Proverb 23:33)
GHSA
This government agency began with the purpose to reduce traffic fatalities caused by drunk drivers. They supply information and slogans to educate and improve awareness of road hazards caused by fools who drive alcohol impaired, or without seatbelts, etc.
In My Opinion
Legalizing recreational marijuana will increase the number of users and result in higher traffic fatalities. Suppliers of marijuana will advertise more myths for fools to believe.
Illinois legislators want to legalize recreational marijuana under the pretense that it will reduce crime, even though they know it will increase deaths on the road to nonusers as well as users.
Criminals will keep selling drugs at lower prices because when the States add taxes and regulators to administer drug use in Illinois, a black market will develop to sell marijuana at cheaper prices same as what has happened with higher cigarette taxation.
You Decide
Legalized recreational marijuana in Illinois, Wise or Foolish
When marijuana becomes legal in Illinois, should you buy a Hummer-type vehicle when you drive even though it is a gas guzzler?
Keep in mind, the risks increase on the roads and it may be you or your loved ones the drug-impaired drivers crash into according to the following wisdom verse.
King Solomon Ecclesiastes Chapter 9
Death Comes to Good and Bad
1 So I took all this to heart and concluded that the righteous and the wise as well as their deeds, ari in God’s hands. Man does not know what lies ahead, whether love or hate. All is the same for all: There is a common fate for the righteous and the wicked, for the good and the bad, for the clean and the unclean, for the one who sacrifices and the one who does not. As it is for the good, so it is for the sinner; as it is for the one who makes a vow, so it is for the one who refuses to take a vow.…
Regards and good will blogging.
Source Links
DHSA
https://www.ghsa.org/resources/news-releases/DUID18
Chicago Tribune
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-biz-drugged-driving-20180530-story.html
Having worked in a hospital ER, I know firsthand the accidents caused by alcohol. Impaired drivers from any cause, including medically prescribed drugs, are a risk to the rest of us, e.g. Tiger Woods’s accident. I believe that our jails and prisons are overcrowded with people guilty of minor pot offenses.
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I understand your first comments, but am confused with your statement that “our jails are overcrowed.”
How does our overcrowd jails relate to an innocent driver being killed by a pot high driver?
Regards and goodwill blogging.
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Too many people in jail for minor pot offenses
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Illinois issues ticket citations for minor use of marijuana. Only suppliers are jailed.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-illinois-marijuana-decriminalzation-0730-20160729-story.html
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That’s good, but untrue elsewhere. I favor treating marijuana like alcohol.
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Walth310
Governing alcohol and marijuana the same is comparing apples to oranges and even hypocritical policy.
For example, hypocritical to promote smoking marijuana after winning lawsuits against cigarette companies for cancer causing effects of smoking their products.
If interested in differences of apples and oranges,
https://rudymartinka.com/2018/04/16/king-solomon-apples-alcoholism-vs-oranges-drugs/
I frankly do not expect to change your opinion, however, perhaps someone reading our comments may discern our differences to form their own opinions. Thanks for your comments.
Also, Illinois law on marijuana is in effect treating alcohol and drugs the same. They ticket users, when they caught doing foolish things, and they jail sellers who sell without a license when people complain to the police that the sellers of marijuana are causing problems in their community selling marijuana to their underage kids, same as selling alcohol to minors.
Regards and good will blogging.
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Both apples and oranges produce sugar in your mouth and can lead to decay.
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walthe310
Same as with all pleasure that are done in excess instead of moderation.
Even King Solomon agrees with you when he wrote this proverb 3000 years ago.
If you find honey, eat just enough– too much of it, and you will vomit. (Proverb 25:16)
Regards and good will blogging.
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I am currently reading How to Change Your Mind by Michael Pollan. I recommend it to you as a alternate to King Solomon.
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Thanks for continuing to speak the truth.
Be blessed!
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