On 2018-04-29 7:57 PM, Nancy Young wrote:
> On 4/29/2018 1:06 PM, Dave Smith wrote:
>
>> There is a lot of press these days on the fear that legalization will
>> lead to lots of drug impaired driving.Â* I don't know why. Just as many
>> young people are smoking dope as there were when I was young.
>
> It's been my observation that people should worry more about
> people driving under the influence of cell phones.Â* My trip to
> DC and back shows it's as bad as ever.


Yes indeed. That is a major problem. It is much worse than driving under
the influence of pot and worse than driving drunk. A couple says ago I
was out for a motorcycle ride with a friend and an oncoming car wandered
over to the shoulder and then swerved back and over the centre line
before he got back to the middle of his lane. As he went by me I could
see that he was looking at a hand held device.
>
> As far as pot being a gateway drug, I can say one thing, the
> gateway to a crappy life can start with being tossed in jail
> for a joint and winding up with a record.

That happened to a friend of mine. At the age of 18 he got busted for a
nickle bag of pot and got five years in jail for it.