XPost: talk.politics.libertarian, alt.drugs, alt.politics.libertarian   
   From: bliss@sfo.com   
      
   Cannabidraake wrote:   
   > In news:talk.politics.drugs, B Sellers  posted on Tue, 06   
   > Apr 2010 11:33:01 -0700 the following:   
   >   
   >> Some of the effect is that people who drive while high are extra careful   
   >> to compensate for the effect.   
   >   
      
   	Been a long time since I have seen the Cannabidraake here and   
   glad to see you back.   
      
   > Yeah, I read the same thing.  I even remember one study that said that   
   > drivers who had smoked pot actually scored slightly better on driving   
   > tests than those who had not smoked, but it's hard to find a copy of that   
   > study anymore.   
   >   
   >> Alcohol fuddled drivers are too drunk to believe they are drunk and   
   >> don't attempt to compensate.   
   >   
   > I experienced that effect to a certain degree when I was drunk.  Though my   
   > body was an unresponsive mess, my brain was happy as a lark.  Everything   
   > was hunky dory as far as my consciousness was concerned, but my body could   
   > have been knocked around like a rag doll, and I probably wouldn't have   
   > cared.  That's what alcohol did to my mindset, and I remember how it was   
   > clearly.   
      
   	Back when i drank I judged my drunkenness by the way my body   
   was impaired by staggering or.how hard it was to speak clearly.  I stopped   
   getting drunk about 42 years back.   
      
   >   
   > Damaeus   
      
   	Later   
   	bliss   
      
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