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Posted: 10/3/2005 4:05:23 PM EDT

[#1]

Bottom line: If you do the stuff, stay at home, mmmkay?

Posted: 10/3/2005 4:08:24 PM EDT

[#2]

Quoted:
Let's sum up the factors

-Stupid Teenage Girl -5 points
-No License -10 points
-Stoned (can make one sleepy) -5 points
-3 hours of sleep -15 points
-Driving to get Jack in Box -20 points

This stupid beoch got what she deserved. Stop thinking about it from her, or her retarded family's persepctive, but of the teacher who died here...

I think everyone here agrees that she ought to be horsewhipped. We just have differences of opinion as to how many points to assign to some of those things. I would assign more points to Stupid Teenage Girl myself.

Posted: 10/4/2005 5:21:36 PM EDT

[#3]

Quoted:
This just in:

Positive Marijuana Result Not Associated With Auto Crash Culpability

Baltimore, MD: Marijuana use, as indicated by
the presence of cannabis metabolites, is not
associated with crash culpability among injured
drivers, according to data presented at the
annual conference of the Association for the
Advancement of Automotive Medicine.

Researchers at the University of Maryland's
National Center for Trauma and EMS obtained
clinical toxicology reports for more than 2,500
injured drivers to identify the presence of
alcohol, cocaine, and marijuana. Authors found
that drivers who tested positive for alcohol in
the blood had" significantly higher crash
culpability" than sober drivers. Authors further
found a "significant association" between
cocaine use and crash culpability for male
drivers between 21 and 40 years of age.

"In contrast, for both men and women, [the]
study did not find an association between crash
culpability and marijuana use," researchers
determined. Drivers between the ages of 41 and
60 who tested positive for marijuana were less
likely to be culpable than drug-free drivers,
they added.

Because researchers based their analysis on the
presence of drug metabolites in the urine rather
than the presence of controlled substances in
blood, authors could not determine whether the
drivers' drug use directly preceded their injury
or had taken place days earlier.

"While the current study does not provide
evidence of cocaine and marijuana impairment, or
use at the time of injury, it provides
information about culpability relative to users
of cocaine and marijuana," authors concluded.
"To clarify the role of marijuana use in crash
culpability, a large study of injured patients
treated in acute care settings using blood tests
to assess for marijuana use proximal to time of
injury would be quite useful."

According to an
www.norml.org/index.cfm?Group_ID=6672 analysis
of on-road crashes released earlier this month
by an international expert panel: "The most
meaningful recent culpability studies indicate
that drivers with THC concentrations in whole
blood of less than 5 ng/ml have a crash risk no
higher than that of drug-free users. The crash
risk apparently begins to exceed that of sober
drivers as THC concentrations in whole blood
reach 5-10 ng/ml." Authors added, however,
"Because recent studies involved only a few
drivers with THC concentrations in that critical
range, a reliable assessment of the associated
crash risk is still lacking."

THC blood levels typically fall below 5 ng/ml in
recreational cannabis users within 60 to 90
minutes after inhalation.

For more information, please contact
[email protected] Paul Armentano, NORML
Senior Policy Expert, at (202) 483-5500. Full
text of the study, "Crash culpability relative
to age and sex for injured drivers using
alcohol, marijuana or cocaine," appears in the
2005 Annual Proceedings of the Association for
the Advancement of Automotive Medicine.

www.norml.org = National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws. Nice source

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