Originally Posted By: Hermann
If we would shut down the news industry for a month, and quit giving everyone their 15 minutes of fame, the world's problem might just disappear.
Man, that was a GEM! Totally agree...
Originally Posted By: OneEyeJack
That kid got himself in a bad place. He had to know that when you come around the track it's difficult to change your line at least enough to dodge some guy standing in the way. You don't see that far ahead driving around the track and the results are what you'd expect.
Absolutely true. And the way those cars are biased to turn left requires a bit of throttle to get it to turn, too.
Originally Posted By: OneEyeJack
Testing for weed has yet to be established as a standard process that can reliably indicate or predict impairment. Weed has a bewildering array of effects on people both good and otherwise and an unknown fate in human metabolism. Dealing with it as a public safety issue, as in driving a car, is going to interesting at best at the point of contact, that is a traffic stop, and a real test of the legal system. Right now there are too many experts, too many vested interests on both sides and too much politics to have any real answers. Any place there are votes in the deal it will become legal and Colorado is an example of that. Weed is an issue of popularity not morality.
The last line is one of my favorites here. Weed is not a big deal, but it does impair you. Seems to be very individual, too, so it's very hard to have some absolute definitive value beyond which you are stoned..