― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 00:16 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ian John50n (orion), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 00:19 (nineteen years ago) link
― ^*&*&*OO, Tuesday, 16 November 2004 00:24 (nineteen years ago) link
― JaXoN (JasonD), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 00:30 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ian John50n (orion), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 00:33 (nineteen years ago) link
― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 00:39 (nineteen years ago) link
― big chaki (chaki), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 00:54 (nineteen years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 00:55 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ian John50n (orion), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 01:00 (nineteen years ago) link
― Andrew Blood Thames (Andrew Thames), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 01:01 (nineteen years ago) link
― Wooden (Wooden), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 01:02 (nineteen years ago) link
― teeny (teeny), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 01:03 (nineteen years ago) link
I was just kidding about the almost addictive thing, teeny.
― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 01:04 (nineteen years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 01:05 (nineteen years ago) link
And if I wasn't smoking lsd that night what the hell fucked us up so bad? It couldn't have been just the weed as it'd been chronic for a few years at that point.
― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 01:34 (nineteen years ago) link
The only drug that: 1) even if you're an addict, you don't mind sharing
You aren't hanging out with good people if this is the case; I've never been in a situation in which people DID mind sharing any type of substance with their friends!
and 2) won't kill you.
Maybe if you eat it all the time, but certainly not if you partake of it in the traditional methods of, like, smoking. It's safer than regular cigarettes since regular cigarettes from the store are basically nothing but a collection of tar and various other things found in the composition of your average pavement, but you're still inhaling carbon monoxide!
The point: every one worth a grain of salt shares with their mates, and everything worth doing in the world ever will eventually kill you. This is kind of a yin/yang upper/downer post, brought to you by Ally.
― Allyzay Science Explosion (allyzay), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 01:38 (nineteen years ago) link
― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 01:45 (nineteen years ago) link
― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 01:45 (nineteen years ago) link
I have been laughing over this phrase for a minute now. I think it's the perfect emphasis Ally makes.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 01:46 (nineteen years ago) link
― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 01:46 (nineteen years ago) link
Maybe not from the pot itself, but certainly from its effects (ie. deaths in factories, automobiles, etc.).
― peepee (peepee), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 01:52 (nineteen years ago) link
― cutty (mcutt), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 01:55 (nineteen years ago) link
You can roll your own cigarettes with tobacco minus all the store-bought cig additives as well you know.
XPOST IT'S TRUE, THE SAD THING IS I DON'T EVEN REMEMBER HOW TO WORK A BOWL AT THIS POINT, I AM SO OLD.
― Allyzay Science Explosion (allyzay), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 01:57 (nineteen years ago) link
― Andrew Blood Thames (Andrew Thames), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 02:00 (nineteen years ago) link
― Wooden (Wooden), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 02:01 (nineteen years ago) link
― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 02:05 (nineteen years ago) link
― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 02:06 (nineteen years ago) link
― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 02:20 (nineteen years ago) link
― Kevin Gilchrist (Mr Fusion), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 02:21 (nineteen years ago) link
― Kevin Gilchrist (Mr Fusion), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 02:23 (nineteen years ago) link
some people are just stupid, whether they are stoned or not.
― cutty (mcutt), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 02:23 (nineteen years ago) link
― Kevin Gilchrist (Mr Fusion), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 02:25 (nineteen years ago) link
― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 02:27 (nineteen years ago) link
― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 02:29 (nineteen years ago) link
― Kevin Gilchrist (Mr Fusion), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 02:34 (nineteen years ago) link
― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 02:37 (nineteen years ago) link
BONG PARTY IN MY ROOM!!!
― Does John Coltrane Dream of a Merry-go-round? (ex machina), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 03:09 (nineteen years ago) link
-- Thermo Thinwall (tupac.chopr...) (webmail), November 15th, 2004 6:27 PM. (Thermo Thinwall) (later) (link)
Were you serious about this?
(Cus if so, I agree! I always feel like a homeless dude eating a banana out of the gutter when I do resin hits!)
― Remy (x Jeremy), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 03:11 (nineteen years ago) link
― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 03:11 (nineteen years ago) link
― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 03:20 (nineteen years ago) link
― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 03:27 (nineteen years ago) link
― peepee (peepee), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 03:30 (nineteen years ago) link
― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 03:41 (nineteen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 03:42 (nineteen years ago) link
― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 03:48 (nineteen years ago) link
― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 03:50 (nineteen years ago) link
― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 03:52 (nineteen years ago) link
Cannabis may make you a safer driver by Jonathon Carr-Brown, Sunday Times, 13 August 2000
TAKING the high road may not be so dangerous after all. Ministers are set to be embarrassed by government-funded research which shows that driving under the influence of drugs makes motorists more cautious and has a limited impact on their risk of crashing.
In the study, conducted by the Transport Research Laboratory, "grade A" cannabis specially imported from America was given to 15 regular users. The doped- up drivers were then put through four weeks of tests on driving simulators to gauge reaction times and awareness.
Regular smokers were used because previous tests in America using first- timers resulted in the volunteers falling over and feeling ill. The laboratory found its guinea pigs through what it described as a "snowballing technique" - one known user was asked to find another after being promised anonymity and exemption from prosecution agreed with the Home Office.
Instead of proving that drug-taking while driving increased the risk of accidents, researchers found that the mellowing effects of cannabis made drivers more cautious and so less likely to drive dangerously.
Although the cannabis affected reaction time in regular users, its effects appear to be substantially less dangerous than fatigue or drinking. Research by the Australian Drugs Foundation found that cannabis was the only drug tested that decreased the relative risk of having an accident.
The findings will embarrass ministers at the Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions (DETR) who commissioned the study after pressure from motoring organisations and anti-drug campaigners. Lord Whitty, the transport minister, will receive the report later this month.
Last week police revealed details of new drug-driving tests to be administered by the roadside, which were received with some amusement. They require suspected drug- drivers to stand on one leg, lean back and touch their nose with their eyes closed, and to count to 30 silently with their eyes shut. This is apparently difficult for those on a drug trip.
However, if the findings are less than frightening on the effects of marijuana, they may convince ministers to put more money into raising driver awareness of fatigue. Tiredness is now blamed for causing 10% of all fatal accidents, compared with 6% for alcohol and 3% for drugs.
A low-key radio campaign will be launched tomorrow warning drivers to take breaks.
The report's surprising conclusions will not sway organisations such as the RAC, which believes there is incontrovertible evidence that drug-driving is a growing menace. DETR statistics published in January showed a six-fold increase in the number of people found to be driving with drugs in their system after fatal road accidents. The figure jumped from 3% in 1989 to 18%.
Dr Rob Tunbridge, the report's author, refused to reveal his findings before they were published but said: "If you were to ask me to rank them in order of priority, fatigue is the worst killer, followed by alcohol, and drugs follow way behind in third."
Tunbridge admitted that the effect of drugs differed with the individual, the amount taken, the environment they were taken in and the point at which you tested reactions.
UK: Dope Drivers Safe: The Province, Canada, 21 August 2000
― big chaki (chaki), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 03:56 (nineteen years ago) link
― Does John Coltrane Dream of a Merry-go-round? (ex machina), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 09:25 (nineteen years ago) link