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Originally Posted by Tcoat
The weed would have been perfectly legal if in the trunk or otherwise "not readily available".
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I prefer to take the facts as they are. You could also say his speeding would have been perfectly legal if he was on a track or if he was on a private road, but that's not reality...
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Originally Posted by Tcoat
The article makes it sound like the road side penalties are it. They are not. He could (and probably WILL) end up with a $10,000 fine, 6 months in jail and a 2 year suspension. Will also cost him around $1,200 to get his car out of impound. Be as much as another $2,000 for the careless driving and $200 for the pot. His annual insurance just went up to about the cost of Denmark's GNP!
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Yes and he will deserve all of those penalties. If you're going to be stupid enough to go 160+ mph on public roads in your 707 hp, 4400 lbs car, don't have weed or any other reflex-impairing drug/alcohol anywhere near you. Just compounding risk needlessly.
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Originally Posted by Irace86.2.0
Neither do I, but I don't really care about the weed. Better than alcohol by a wide margin or a million other things.
Many states don't have open bottle laws, and in Mississippi you can drink and drive. You just can't be drunk apparently.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/open-...-law_n_4653013
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Might be better than alcohol, but still impairs reflexes.
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Marijuana significantly impairs judgment, motor coordination, and reaction time, and studies have found a direct relationship between blood THC concentration and impaired driving ability.79
Marijuana is the illicit drug most frequently found in the blood of drivers who have been involved in vehicle crashes, including fatal ones.10
Several meta-analyses of multiple studies found that the risk of being involved in a crash significantly increased after marijuana use13in a few cases, the risk doubled or more than doubled.1416
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https://www.drugabuse.gov/publicatio...affect-driving