(March 4, 2019 at 7:05 am)Yonadav Wrote:(March 4, 2019 at 6:33 am)Mathilda Wrote: Because if you have reservations about legalising weed for the same reasons that alcohol is a problem, but think that alcohol should stay legal, then that's inconsistent.
So we have a campaign to seriously deter people from driving while stoned. Easy enough. We do it successfully with drunk drivers.
No, it's not inconsistent. You are just engaging in whataboutism. I said that if we are going to have legal weed, the we need to actively discourage stoned driving just as aggressively as we do drunk driving. So I'm completely consistent.
Your original post didn't exactly express this same sentiment. Having a reservation about the legalization of weed means you're sort of skeptical about legalization, as if this one limiting qualification is enough to make you question whether or not cannabis should be legalized. That's how your original post came off to multiple people, not just me.
This seems inconsistent when you openly cited incomplete research to try to prove that cannabis causes car accidents (which, the very research you quoted openly admitted it was making no such claim), while you never expressed any "reservations" about alcohol and fatal car collisions. This comes off, to some, as inconsistent. It seems like you have a bone to pick with weed while you're happily giving alcohol a pass.
I'm not claiming you're saying that, but you have to understand that this is how it is coming off to people.
Even if a correlation was completely established between cannabis use and an increase in reported car collisions, this isn't a valid enough reason to combat legalization. This means, as others have stated, we need increased awareness and education surrounding cannabis use, especially in correlation to using a motor vehicle.
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