Readers respond to marijuana opinion piece
Unfortunately most people in the marijuana policy reform movement help defeat their own legalization efforts by supporting anti-marijuana propaganda, which claims marijuana causes accidents on the road and in the workplace and that drug tests and driving restrictions are necessary. Wake up policy reformers! Marijuana does not cause accidents on the road or anywhere else! Stop tolerating false propoganda that says it does!
Google: “marijuana driving study” and read a few results.
You will quickly see two common conclusions, marijuana causes slight impairment, and unlike alcohol consumers, people under the influence of marijuana adequately compensate for their slight impairment by slowing down a little and being a little more cautious!
If prescription morphine is accepted by society and used with safety all the time when it only has a warning on the label that says, “Don’t drive or operate dangerous machinery until you determine how this drug effects you,” then why in the world do marijuana policy reformers promote marijuana being under more scrutiny than far more mind altering substances like morphine?
Educate the public about marijuana safety and we win! If you base your argument on false fears about safety, the public will never vote to legalize marijuana!
The honest facts support legalizing based on the issue of safety, so stop pretending like using marijuana is anything like using alcohol or any other drug that has proven to be dangerous on the road and in the workplace.
Please don’t make the same mistakes in the future! State the honest facts about marijuana not causing accidents and that will win millions of votes from the previously ignorant voters that thought marijuana causes accidents.
