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jb2012 wrote: ↑Wed Jul 03, 2019 2:01 pm There is no such thing as a marijuana “overdose”.

Of course there is.....just not in the sense you’re thinking of. It just may not be possible to receive a lethal dose, but there all all kinds of ways of categorizing overdoses. I remember one of the ER docs I used to work with telling me that it’s almost impossible to take enough Valium to kill yourself; but you might could take enough to be out of it for a week. That would be an overdose, since it is well beyond any clinically recommended dose, and being out of it for a week can easily be considered an undesirable result.

Kofer wrote: ↑Tue Jul 02, 2019 9:29 pm Marijuana DUI and Roadside Testing

https://www.chadbanklaw.com/marijuana-d ... e-testing/

Exactly what I was talking about in my previous post.

TexasJohnBoy wrote: ↑Tue Jul 02, 2019 7:52 pm

apostate wrote: ↑Tue Jul 02, 2019 7:22 pm

TexasJohnBoy wrote: ↑Tue Jul 02, 2019 7:09 pm It should be completely legal anyways. Just like alcohol.

And machine guns.

Preach.

Rightly or wrongly, I think it’s just a matter of time before it’s legal here. I don’t smoke (or in any other way consume) marijuana or its products, but I think it’s a losing battle that uses up way too much law enforcement resources. My main objection to its use is that is is currently illegal, and I think that obedience to the rule of law has value. But I don’t think it’s morally any worse, or any more impactful on society than the abuse of alcohol. If it were legal, maybe the cartels would stop trying to run it across the border. I notice that tequila smuggling isn’t a growth industry, because it’s less risky, cheaper, and easier to just run down to the neighborhood liquor store and buy some there.

One of the mistakes that Colorado made in implementing their new weed law was in failing to first develop a blood testing system or roadside sobriety tester like a breathalyzer that would return quick and usable results for THC levels in impaired motorists. When the new law went into effect, Colorado’s traffic fatality numbers went up some. I don’t remember how much exactly, but it was measurable, and it correlated to the implementation of the new law. I don’t want people driving stoned, any more than I want them driving drunk. If Texas improves its testing procedures, it seems to me to remove a barrier to decriminalization.