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Time of the year warning - Gerry Sanderson

Dont ruin your or anothers life

MORE than 20 motorists have been arrested in the first week of North Yorkshire Police’s Christmas drink drive campaign.

60 year old at Scarborough THREE AND HALF TIMES OVER LIMIT.

Drive sober drive safe for all our sakes

dvd

Edited by Gerry Sanderson on 10/12/2018 at 15:24

Time of the year warning - skidpan

And lets not forget driving under the influence of drugs.

Time of the year warning - Bromptonaut

And lets not forget driving under the influence of drugs.

Indeed. But both prevalence and effect are way downscale from booze.

Time of the year warning - RT

And lets not forget driving under the influence of drugs.

Indeed. But both prevalence and effect are way downscale from booze.

Alcohol misuse is a minority among drinkers - drug misuse is universal among drug-takers!

Time of the year warning - skidpan

And lets not forget driving under the influence of drugs.

Indeed. But both prevalence and effect are way downscale from booze.

Irrelevant. Booze or drugs its quite simply illegal to drive over the limit.

No excuse, no license.

Time of the year warning - Middleman

However:

www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/12/11/roadside-breat.../

Time of the year warning - Leif

And lets not forget driving under the influence of drugs.

Indeed. But both prevalence and effect are way downscale from booze.

I might be misunderstanding what you mean, but marijuana intoxication is as dangerous as alcohol.

Time of the year warning - Avant

Sorry Leif - the stupid software hid your post. I've restored it.

Time of the year warning - Bromptonaut

I might be misunderstanding what you mean, but marijuana intoxication is as dangerous as alcohol.

I was suggesting two things.

(A) that drug driving is less common than drink driving and

(B) Drug drivers are less dangerous than drunks. Like you, my focus was weed (and not modern synthetic cannabis). No scientific evidence but supposition that cannabis doesn't result in disinhibited aggression in same way as booze.

Time of the year warning - FP

"...cannabis doesn't result in disinhibited aggression in same way as booze."

Is this true? In my experience, how people react to alcohol depends on their personality. Some just sink into a happy stupor. Not everyone gets aggressive. Or have my years of experience been too narrow?

Time of the year warning - thunderbird

I was suggesting two things

(A) that drug driving is less common than drink driving and

(B) Drug drivers are less dangerous than drunks.

Alcohol or drugs, how common it is irrelevant and how you can suggest that drugged drivers are less dangerous than drunks is beyond belief.

The simple fact is anything that impairs your ability behind the wheel makes you dangerous and that means you should loose your licence (and possibly your freedom) and be faced with a huge fine.

Even some prescribed drugs can have warnings not to drive on the packets and if caught driving after taking these "legal" products you could no doubt be in trouble if you were involved in an RTC.

Edited by thunderbird on 14/12/2018 at 17:32