lot of responsibility driving a car, a motorcycle, a big truck out on the road.
None of us with a conscience want to hurt anyone.
Impaired is a relative term.
I have driven truly impaired. My BP read 90/45 in the supermarket parking lot in NC, almost didn't make it back
to truck, and I took BP when I got home. Finally found out medicine for my tinnitus was drastically reducing my BP.
I should have sued that ENT for almost killing me. Very dizzy.
Never should have driven, but I live alone and...frankly, your reasoning gets impaired too.
Not like drinking or taking recreational drugs makes anyone smarter.
Pretty sure we can all agree on that.
I watch a lot of youtube accident videos and much of what I see is totally preventable with better defensive driving.
Defensive driving means you have to be sharp and aware of your surroundings; that's what I think goes away when impaired.
You can't react to anything out of plain driving the car down the road. Throw something bad into the mix and the accident becomes
unavoidable.
I want to be sharp driving so I avoid the bad drivers on the road with me.
Don't worry so much about my own driving...except backing. Sigh.
Every intersection is a potential accident, every approaching vehicle has an arrival time, and unless you are very aware,
I think you miss those details.
So you may not have done anything wrong yourself but you are less able to avoid an accident.
And surely if one has been drinking, it usually brings out the competitiveness/combativeness in folks.
Most folks who use some form of cannabis drive slower.
as far as hash, I think my only and last enjoyment of that marvelous product from Morocco at the time
was in 1971, senior year at college. It had the most wonderful exotic smell, not the skunky or skanky odor of pot.
You got little chunks of it wrapped in tin foil.
Strongest stuff I ever tried, then or now.
if we think the world is nuts today, relive the late sixties and Vietnam. Then it was our own young people dying.
prospects of getting drafted and sent into that meat grinder was enough to make many folks want some mental escape.
And in stepped Timothy Leary.
I just said no. No coke, no LSD, no pills of any kind.
Now those LSD takers are in their 70's. Wonder if they had any long term effects.
the occasional pink elephant?
that just didn't seem like good entertainment to me.
