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	<title>Comments on: Study: Per Se Drugged Driving Laws Have Little Or No Impact On Traffic Deaths</title>
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		<title>By: Learn Driving Calgary</title>
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		<dc:creator>Learn Driving Calgary</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Apr 2013 05:55:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, Implementation of laws against drug driving seems to punish the law breakers, but its very unfortunate to see people play with their own lives and what laws are supposed to perform to prevent these deaths.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well, Implementation of laws against drug driving seems to punish the law breakers, but its very unfortunate to see people play with their own lives and what laws are supposed to perform to prevent these deaths.</p>
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		<title>By: Fed-Up</title>
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		<dc:creator>Fed-Up</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2013 06:17:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Denis,c&#039;mon... lighten up.It must be disturbing to know that cannabis does not effect you&#039;re cognitive abilities and cordination in the same way alcohol does.The &quot;reputable peers&quot; that you have put your faith in,are not necessarily reputable, because they can easily be bought out to the highest bidder.And that has nothing to do with paranoia,just logic.

But ill tell what is psychotic,the notion of a perfect future &quot;drug free society&quot; propoganda that started during the 80s.The people that are profiting on this notion,know that everything would change as far as their earnings and their corperate institutions,(if there was a drug free society),so they actualy are dependent on those &quot;evil&amp; misguided drug users for their livelihood.It has nothing to do with the innocent children that have their families torn apart by the &quot;drug war,&quot; because they need fresh new bodies to keep the dynamics going.

Thank god people are waking up to this,but it also has to do with generational differences as well...Where talking about princeables like-honesty,values and morality.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Denis,c&#8217;mon&#8230; lighten up.It must be disturbing to know that cannabis does not effect you&#8217;re cognitive abilities and cordination in the same way alcohol does.The &#8220;reputable peers&#8221; that you have put your faith in,are not necessarily reputable, because they can easily be bought out to the highest bidder.And that has nothing to do with paranoia,just logic.</p>
<p>But ill tell what is psychotic,the notion of a perfect future &#8220;drug free society&#8221; propoganda that started during the 80s.The people that are profiting on this notion,know that everything would change as far as their earnings and their corperate institutions,(if there was a drug free society),so they actualy are dependent on those &#8220;evil&amp; misguided drug users for their livelihood.It has nothing to do with the innocent children that have their families torn apart by the &#8220;drug war,&#8221; because they need fresh new bodies to keep the dynamics going.</p>
<p>Thank god people are waking up to this,but it also has to do with generational differences as well&#8230;Where talking about princeables like-honesty,values and morality.</p>
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		<title>By: Dave Evans</title>
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		<dc:creator>Dave Evans</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2013 19:19:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Having just been in a verbal disagreement can make your driving worse than the strongest pot, because even your state of mind is stronger than marijuana&#039;s effects on perception.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Having just been in a verbal disagreement can make your driving worse than the strongest pot, because even your state of mind is stronger than marijuana&#8217;s effects on perception.</p>
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		<title>By: Dave Evans</title>
		<link>http://blog.norml.org/2013/01/14/study-per-se-drugged-driving-laws-have-little-or-no-impact-on-traffic-deaths/comment-page-1/#comment-181662</link>
		<dc:creator>Dave Evans</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2013 19:15:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Denis, get a clue please!  If you&#039;re doing something harmful, then why should you be punished for it?  Drunk driving kills people.  High driving doesn&#039;t.  The law needs to reflect what happens in the real world, not some subjective shitfest.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Denis, get a clue please!  If you&#8217;re doing something harmful, then why should you be punished for it?  Drunk driving kills people.  High driving doesn&#8217;t.  The law needs to reflect what happens in the real world, not some subjective shitfest.</p>
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		<title>By: Denis</title>
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		<dc:creator>Denis</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2013 07:10:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Oh dear oh dear oh dear !  Where do I begin with the flaws in this ? Here are a couple :

1) The object was to achieve X. It did not achieve Y. Therefore it does not work ? At best &quot;Ignoratio elenchi&quot; !
2) The &quot;do not drive while blindfold&quot; law did not reduce the number of deaths whiile driving. We conclude that there is no evidence that driving while blindfolded is dangerous. What are you guys on ? 

I think that you guys have been consuming far too much of your product, and as the REPUTABLE PEER REVIEWED research shows, regular consumption has both short AND long term affects on cognitive ability. 

I think that you have just provided significant additional evidence that it should NOT be legalised !]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Oh dear oh dear oh dear !  Where do I begin with the flaws in this ? Here are a couple :</p>
<p>1) The object was to achieve X. It did not achieve Y. Therefore it does not work ? At best &#8220;Ignoratio elenchi&#8221; !<br />
2) The &#8220;do not drive while blindfold&#8221; law did not reduce the number of deaths whiile driving. We conclude that there is no evidence that driving while blindfolded is dangerous. What are you guys on ? </p>
<p>I think that you guys have been consuming far too much of your product, and as the REPUTABLE PEER REVIEWED research shows, regular consumption has both short AND long term affects on cognitive ability. </p>
<p>I think that you have just provided significant additional evidence that it should NOT be legalised !</p>
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		<title>By: Benjamin Eaton</title>
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		<dc:creator>Benjamin Eaton</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jan 2013 11:01:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Check out this video about pot...rethink the leaf, YES!...amazing!

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0iq0ugpXuZI]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Check out this video about pot&#8230;rethink the leaf, YES!&#8230;amazing!</p>
<p> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0iq0ugpXuZI" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0iq0ugpXuZI</a></p>
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		<title>By: Drivers Education Calgary</title>
		<link>http://blog.norml.org/2013/01/14/study-per-se-drugged-driving-laws-have-little-or-no-impact-on-traffic-deaths/comment-page-1/#comment-181251</link>
		<dc:creator>Drivers Education Calgary</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jan 2013 20:58:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Very interesting research, I think it&#039;s obvious that drinking and driving is far worse than anything involving pot.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Very interesting research, I think it&#8217;s obvious that drinking and driving is far worse than anything involving pot.</p>
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		<title>By: Krymsun</title>
		<link>http://blog.norml.org/2013/01/14/study-per-se-drugged-driving-laws-have-little-or-no-impact-on-traffic-deaths/comment-page-1/#comment-181121</link>
		<dc:creator>Krymsun</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jan 2013 18:08:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cannabis use is associated with only marginal increases in traffic accident risk, comparable to anti-histamines and penicillin. 

An investigator from Aalborg University and the Institute of Transport Economics in Oslo assessed the risk of road accident associated with drivers’ use of licit and illicit drugs, including amphetamines, analgesics, anti-asthmatics, anti-depressives, anti-histamines, benzodiazepines, cannabis, cocaine, opiates, penicillin and zopiclone (a sleeping pill).  His study reviewed data from 66 separate studies evaluating the use of illicit or prescribed drugs on accident risk; the study found that cannabis was associated with minor, but not significantly increased odds of traffic injury (1.06) or fatal accident (1.25). By comparison, opiates (1.44), benzodiazepine tranquillizers (2.30), anti-depressants (1.32), cocaine (2.96), amphetamines (4.46), and the sleeping aid zopiclone (2.60) were all associated with a greater risk of fatal accident than cannabis. Anti-histamines (1.12) and penicillin (1.12) were associated with comparable odds to cannabis.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Cannabis use is associated with only marginal increases in traffic accident risk, comparable to anti-histamines and penicillin. </p>
<p>An investigator from Aalborg University and the Institute of Transport Economics in Oslo assessed the risk of road accident associated with drivers’ use of licit and illicit drugs, including amphetamines, analgesics, anti-asthmatics, anti-depressives, anti-histamines, benzodiazepines, cannabis, cocaine, opiates, penicillin and zopiclone (a sleeping pill).  His study reviewed data from 66 separate studies evaluating the use of illicit or prescribed drugs on accident risk; the study found that cannabis was associated with minor, but not significantly increased odds of traffic injury (1.06) or fatal accident (1.25). By comparison, opiates (1.44), benzodiazepine tranquillizers (2.30), anti-depressants (1.32), cocaine (2.96), amphetamines (4.46), and the sleeping aid zopiclone (2.60) were all associated with a greater risk of fatal accident than cannabis. Anti-histamines (1.12) and penicillin (1.12) were associated with comparable odds to cannabis.</p>
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		<title>By: Krymsun</title>
		<link>http://blog.norml.org/2013/01/14/study-per-se-drugged-driving-laws-have-little-or-no-impact-on-traffic-deaths/comment-page-1/#comment-181120</link>
		<dc:creator>Krymsun</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jan 2013 18:07:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A 2002 review of seven separate crash culpability studies involving 7,934 drivers reported, “Crash culpability studies [which attempt to correlate the responsibility of a driver for an accident to his or her consumption of a drug and the level of drug compound in his or her system] have failed to demonstrate that drivers with cannabinoids in the blood are significantly more likely than drug-free drivers to be culpable in road crashes.” [Chesher et al. Cannabis and alcohol in motor vehicle accidents. In: Grotenhermen and Russo (Eds) Cannabis and Cannabinoids: Pharmacology, Toxicology, and Therapeutic Potential. New York: Haworth Press. 2002: 313-323.]

But, unlike with alcohol, the accident risk caused by cannabis, particularly among those who are not acutely intoxicated, appears limited because subjects under its influence are generally aware of their impairment and compensate to some extent, such as by slowing down and by focusing their attention when they know a response will be required. [Allison Smiley. Marijuana: On-Road and Driving Simulator Studies] 

This response is the opposite of that exhibited by drivers under the influence of alcohol, who tend to drive in a more risky manner proportional to their intoxication.[United Kingdom&#039;s Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs.  The Classification of Cannabis Under the Misuse of Drugs Act of 1971. 2002: See specifically: Chapter 4, Section 4.3.5: &quot;Cannabis differs from alcohol; ... it seems not to increase risk-taking behavior. This may explain why it appears to play a smaller role than alcohol in road traffic accidents.&quot;]]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A 2002 review of seven separate crash culpability studies involving 7,934 drivers reported, “Crash culpability studies [which attempt to correlate the responsibility of a driver for an accident to his or her consumption of a drug and the level of drug compound in his or her system] have failed to demonstrate that drivers with cannabinoids in the blood are significantly more likely than drug-free drivers to be culpable in road crashes.” [Chesher et al. Cannabis and alcohol in motor vehicle accidents. In: Grotenhermen and Russo (Eds) Cannabis and Cannabinoids: Pharmacology, Toxicology, and Therapeutic Potential. New York: Haworth Press. 2002: 313-323.]</p>
<p>But, unlike with alcohol, the accident risk caused by cannabis, particularly among those who are not acutely intoxicated, appears limited because subjects under its influence are generally aware of their impairment and compensate to some extent, such as by slowing down and by focusing their attention when they know a response will be required. [Allison Smiley. Marijuana: On-Road and Driving Simulator Studies] </p>
<p>This response is the opposite of that exhibited by drivers under the influence of alcohol, who tend to drive in a more risky manner proportional to their intoxication.[United Kingdom's Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs.  The Classification of Cannabis Under the Misuse of Drugs Act of 1971. 2002: See specifically: Chapter 4, Section 4.3.5: "Cannabis differs from alcohol; ... it seems not to increase risk-taking behavior. This may explain why it appears to play a smaller role than alcohol in road traffic accidents."]</p>
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		<title>By: Krymsun</title>
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		<dc:creator>Krymsun</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jan 2013 18:07:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is Driving High on Marijuana Safer Than Driving Drunk? [ or driving sober?!! ]
For decades, marijuana advocates have argued that pot has a significantly different effect on driving ability than alcohol. But if you take the word of one auto insurance company, stoned is actually the safest way to drive. 4AutoinsuranceQuote.org is making that case based on years’ worth of scientific studies, including some from the US National Highway Transportation Safety Administration that found motorists under the influence of marijuana tended to drive slower and have accident responsibility rates lower than those of drug-free drivers. 
http://blogs.lawyers.com/2012/04/cruising-the-high-way-safer-than-drunk-driving/]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Is Driving High on Marijuana Safer Than Driving Drunk? [ or driving sober?!! ]<br />
For decades, marijuana advocates have argued that pot has a significantly different effect on driving ability than alcohol. But if you take the word of one auto insurance company, stoned is actually the safest way to drive. 4AutoinsuranceQuote.org is making that case based on years’ worth of scientific studies, including some from the US National Highway Transportation Safety Administration that found motorists under the influence of marijuana tended to drive slower and have accident responsibility rates lower than those of drug-free drivers.<br />
<a href="http://blogs.lawyers.com/2012/04/cruising-the-high-way-safer-than-drunk-driving/" rel="nofollow">http://blogs.lawyers.com/2012/04/cruising-the-high-way-safer-than-drunk-driving/</a></p>
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