On Sun, 29 Apr 2018 20:09:25 -0400, Dave Smith
> wrote:

>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.* 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.* 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.

You people live in harsh countries.