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Even if it's directly causing the schizophrenia and not some kind of selection effect, is it still enough to be anywhere near equal the amount of harm that tobacco or alcohol causes?
I'm not sure how marijuana is supposed to be less harmful than alcohol? It's not like driving stoned is safer than driving drunk, and marijuana is also very bad for the teen brain.
I'd be astonished if it weren't.
All depends on the dose and your tolerance. i got high precisely once in my life and refuse to touch the stuff based on that experience. It would never occur to me to drive in the state I was in.
Alcohol, on the other hand, as long as you didn't drink too much, seems relatively safe. I think there was even a Mythbuster's episode when they were comparing it to driving while sleep deprived, and the latter can easily be more dangerous.
Yes, of course. And it's not apples to apples in terms of 'level' of inebriation; they're different beasts.
But having experience with both, the trouble with alcohol is that it makes it difficult to judge how impaired you really are. Whereas with thc, you're highly-aware of your state and if anything much more likely to drive much slower than usual if not pull over for a while.
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This is because of our MADD DUI thresholds. Get someone to 0.08 and maybe they're a little less alert and a little less cautious, but not really out of the range of sober drivers. Most fatal alcohol-involved collisions are at twice that, though.
The caricature of stoned drivers is they wait for the stop sign to turn green. Based on the drivers I've seen in cars stinking of weed (that I could smell from my own car), they drive very erratically but not fast. I wouldn't be surprised if their most common accident was just driving off the road with no or minor injuries, but I'm not aware of any studies.
In my experience, stoned drivers exercise what seems like a superabundance of caution because they feel like everything around them is happening too fast and they can't quite keep up. So they go very slowly; sit at stop signs a very long time to make sure no one is about to come. Check every direction five times, etc.
While it's not ideal, it occurs to me as closer to 'silly' than 'reckless'. Should be avoided either way ofc. But someone on weed, unlike someone on alcohol, doesn't wake up the next day to find dents they don't remember or a mailbox in their grille.
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