Wednesday, January 15, 2020

Tokin'Tony's Wish for Wisconsin

Tokin'Tony wants legal marijuana in Wisconsin, and a certain blockhead Pubbie leggie is right there as well.  There may be more, of course, but they speak jibberish so they can't be understood.

This won't change their alleged 'minds' either.

Running red lights. Driving at high speeds. Crossing center lines into the opposite lanes. Getting into accidents -- even hitting pedestrians. A new study found these were some of the dangerous driving behaviors of regular, heavy users of recreational weed who began using before the age of 16.

Here's the catch: users drove this badly even when they were no longer high. 
 
The study, published Tuesday in the journal Drug and Alcohol Dependence, asked chronic, heavy marijuana users to drive in a customized driving simulator. 
 
And what is "heavy use"?  A lot less than you might expect....
 
..."Heavy use was defined by daily or near daily use, a minimum of four or five times a week, with a lifetime exposure of 1,500 times," said Staci Gruber, director of the Marijuana Investigations for Neuroscientific Discovery (MIND) program at McLean Hospital, the largest psychiatric teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School....
Wanna take bets on Milwaukee's crazy-driver problem and its relationship to weed?
 

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