View Full Version : Driving and Weed
phillyvixen
06-17-2007, 01:36 PM
I'll second Chrissy's eratic city driving.. her ringtone on my phone is fast car :)
As for driving stoned I'll agree with everyone else who said it depends on tolerance, some people are just funcioning potheads and do everything stoned. I have many many times and I've never been in an accident, and i've only had one ticket my whole life and i've been driving 10 years now.
datchapin
06-17-2007, 04:21 PM
Actually, weed and alcohol aren't both depressants. Contrary to popular belief weed is actually a hallucinigenic drug. Weeds halluciginetic effects aren't as strong as other hallucinigens like shrooms or acid. Anyone who's ever gotten high though can attest to thinking they saw shit out the corner of their eye or thought a car was a cop car when it was like so not. Once accustomed to smoking your body compensates by processing all the information faster, but your reaction times aren't really affected. Alcohol on the other hand does dull your reaction times and the more you drink the more you get fucked up. Anyone ever notice that the more they smoked the more shit seemed to come together. Like entering a zone.
I'm not bias as I've enjoyed both, but given the choice on the road. I'd pick the pothead over the drunk any day of the week. Man, I could totally write a fucking term paper on this, but the smoke makes me too lazy. lol. Oh, plus my grammar sucks.
KentuckyMysteryMan
06-17-2007, 10:41 PM
Actually weed is not "dope". It does not make the body realese dopamine. (spelling?) So many ppl think it's dope, but technically, it's not.
One time that I got high on weed though, I was laying in bed and I thought I smelled a mouse shitting on the floor? I REALLY thought one was taking a shit.
Is that normal with weed to imagine things like that? lol My friend told me it had to be laced with something else, cause weed doesn't do that.
dlabtot
08-11-2007, 12:47 PM
Researchers in the Netherlands conducted a study on the effect of pot on driving performance (http://casr.adelaide.edu.au/t95/paper/s1p2.html):
More specifically, alcohol impaired both vehicle handling and traffic maneuvers. Marijuana, administered in a dose of 100 µg/kg THC, on the other hand, did not significantly change mean driving performance as measured by this approach
Thus, there is evidence that subjects in the marijuana group were not only aware of their intoxicated condition, but were also attempting to compensate for it. These seem to be important findings. They support both the common belief that drivers become overconfident after drinking alcohol and investigators' suspicions that they become more cautious and self-critical after consuming low doses of THC, as smoked marijuana.
Drug plasma concentrations were neither related to absolute driving performance scores nor to the changes that occurred from placebo to drug conditions. With respect to THC, these results confirm the findings in previous studies. They are somewhat surprising for alcohol but may be due to the restricted range of ethanol concentrations in the plasma of different subjects.
Vyanka
08-11-2007, 12:53 PM
I drove high on pot once and thought it would be okay, bc pot sometimes makes me feel tired. But once I got on the highway where I had a bad accident once(yikes!), I was so fucking paranoid. LOL. But that was probably bc I drove through there. Either way....I'll never drive high on pot again. Not for me.
Nor will I ever drive drunk as well.
Vyanka
08-11-2007, 12:56 PM
Oh, but crazy enough though I remember that when I was in high school. I smoked pot during lunch, and later on that afternoon I took a test I didn't even study for and miraculously, I passed. LOL.
Alaska
08-11-2007, 05:39 PM
I drive good stoned, but keep missing the right roads and going, oh well cool, a new adventure, and then ONE HOUR LATER making circles start to feel majorly pissed, then I'm like wtf, don't be pissed while stoned, stop ruining it...and it's a vicious cycle/circle. Then I gotta go home and smoke more. But I don't smoke like I used to.
Hahahaha last time I did this I was leaving Hoboken. Hoboken is one square mile. I was seeing Hoboken signs an hour later and finally decided I'd best be GETTING HOME NOW.
CupCake
08-11-2007, 05:46 PM
I will NOT drive when I'm am stoned...for one b/c I usually end up getting lost lol and for two I'm most def. not in any state to drive.