> I don't even think it's possible for a human to be 4 times as drunk as another also drunk human and survive.
Considering some of the scores I have seen from the local police I beg to disagree. They have caught people with so much alcohol in their blood that your average person would probably be in a comma.
And I think your position on THC is irrational and probably motivated by your emotions.
I have smoked quite a bit and been around quite a lot of stoners, and they all think this way (oh, I'm used to it, no effect) but my experience tells me otherwise.
It's the power of magical thinking, but even a regular user is quite impaired, right after the first joint. I personally have been able to test this, with a quite lower performance in video games, even though I felt I was doing quite good. Stats said otherwise. And I can assure you that I was quite a heavy user at that time, since my brother was growing the stuff and I was getting it for free basically.
In my experience most cannabis users are quite irrational around the stuff because they want it to be magically better than what it is. But in the end, it is no better than alcohol and, in some ways, much worse: the effects last longer, pushing into the next day, which is what I believe happens in those accidents. The users believe they are more in control than they really are and their reaction times are quite worse, which would be actually very easy to measure...
Considering some of the scores I have seen from the local police I beg to disagree. They have caught people with so much alcohol in their blood that your average person would probably be in a comma.
And I think your position on THC is irrational and probably motivated by your emotions. I have smoked quite a bit and been around quite a lot of stoners, and they all think this way (oh, I'm used to it, no effect) but my experience tells me otherwise. It's the power of magical thinking, but even a regular user is quite impaired, right after the first joint. I personally have been able to test this, with a quite lower performance in video games, even though I felt I was doing quite good. Stats said otherwise. And I can assure you that I was quite a heavy user at that time, since my brother was growing the stuff and I was getting it for free basically.
In my experience most cannabis users are quite irrational around the stuff because they want it to be magically better than what it is. But in the end, it is no better than alcohol and, in some ways, much worse: the effects last longer, pushing into the next day, which is what I believe happens in those accidents. The users believe they are more in control than they really are and their reaction times are quite worse, which would be actually very easy to measure...