Study: Driving stoned better than driving drunk

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DENVER (KGO) -- New research shows people who drive while stoned instead of driving while drunk could be making roads safer.



Two economists recently researched traffic fatalities in states that permit medical marijuana and found that traffic fatalities fell between 1990 and 2009 when pot was legalized in those states.


According to one researcher, people who drive stoned may be making roads safer since they take less-calculated risks and drive slower.

Conversely, drivers who are drunk tend to take more risk and speed up.
Another theory is that stoned people don't go out into the public that much.


The study hasn't been corroborated by peer research, but the two economists -- Daniel Rees of the University of Colorado and Mark Anderson of Montana State University -- told ABC News they stand by their findings

 

[L.D.S.]

IDK, man, I got blasted one afternoon and decided to race a Z06 Grand Sport for thirty miles. He was never aware that we were racing, though.

It was fucking awesome.

I'm paranoid if I drive stoned, and have more than once freaked out while driving over some shit I thought I saw.

Two motorcycles were beside each other and I thought they were one car, but when the one closest to the center line started coming into my lane, I thought the car had split in half and I was going to die.

 

[MaC A$$ ViC]

^LSD for LDS

lol i usually drive high, im a better drivee when high. i get to much road rage sober dealing with women drivers and asians

 

[5-Dime NwK]

Whats the difference between an alcoholic and a pothead?

The alcoholic runs the stop sign.
The pothead waits for it to turn green.

 

[prodigy91]

so i drive better when im high cuz i drive slower? i feel like i see everything in slow motion and when i switch lanes i feel like im making some hollywood movie manuvers and shit lol

 

[GHP]

when i smoked i thought i drove pretty well because i was hella paranoid of the cops,.

 

[RM211]

no shit...

 

[Rezin]

I am waaaay more careful of a driver when I'm high driven.

It just makes me pay attention to more shit. And I drive slow as shit, fuck you I'm high I don't care where you gotta be lol.

 

[R]

I enjoy driving while high

 

[ayo4yayo]

well no shit. Driving lit allows me to be more cautious because im paranoid. If I drive drunk, its a free for all and everything I see on the road has "10pts" next to it.

 

[Rossibreath]

Lol they needed to do a study to figure that out?

 

[28g w/o the bag]

i never drove while high before... but driving while coming down from a high is nice

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[Legman]

i am no more careful or less risky

i just enjoy my high and dont feel like dying in a firey ball of twisted metal and guts

im more paranoid gettin on the road sober, thinkin what other people are on and how bad they drive

 

[surcaliman]

NEW study finds that driving drunk is safer than driving shermed out.

 

[drunkaholic707]

i was trying to find the dave chapelle skit for this

 

[drewski.kalonji]

You gotta love these useless university "studies"- Those two professors were just getting perved hitting cones on some empty lot in mile high city doing "research".

Shit my 12 yo nephew coulda told you that. Common knowledge.

 

[ayo4yayo]

i never drove while high before... but driving while coming down from a high is nice

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Its ok. Just spark a blunt while driving. As long as you got the AC blasting to kill the cloud you'll be cool. I mean your light weight tacking but not making it noticeable at the same time then light up a cig before you open up the window to be extra slick on the road.

Never fails.

 

[Cut-Throat]

i just drove home drunk, fuck their study!!!

 

[ALL BOUT CHICKEN]

i ghostride the scraper on 24s high

#stoner life

 

[timebomb]

Whats the difference between an alcoholic and a pothead?

The alcoholic runs the stop sign.
The pothead waits for it to turn green.

the pothead misses the green and ends up havin to wait till it comes back round to green..