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They don't drive better, just safer compared to alcohol (which makes you overconfident). People under the influence of THC are very aware of their impairment and drive slower and more carefully rather than recklessly.

Also generally effects with mild consumption aren't that pronounced:

https://www.sydney.edu.au/news-opinion/news/2020/12/02/Canna...

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>compared to alcohol

Yeah we're not comparing it to driving under the influence of alcohol, we're comparing it to driving sober - as you should.

It’s funny, when I get high on weed I race better in online sim racing. When I’m totally sober my record is much poorer. I’m not saying it’s right to drive in the real world while high or not, and I personally wouldn’t, but this is one anecdote you can think about later that goes along with the sibling post about research saying the safety effect is marginal.

Stick to the game for all our sakes.

Is this comment even needed? I just finished saying I don’t. You’re being parental.

Last time this conversation propped up, I decided to do some research (aka reading actual papers and not the 3 line executive conclusion written by DEA or DEA adjacent agencies). If I remember correctly, when controlling for gender and age, driving high had a marginal impact (and in some cases actually decreased incidents of accidents).

The problem is, determining if a driver is “high” is extremely crude. If you used weed at any point in a week, it’s very likely that if you’re tested for weed it’s gonna show positive which inflates all sorts of statistics.

Anyway the funny conclusion was driving while male was significantly more dangerous for the driver and society than driving while high.

That's fine. I was just putting pants on a strawman.

It’s hard for you to support that assertion, as little research exists as it’s not funded.

>It’s hard for you to support that assertion,

What assertion, that you should drive sober? It is literally the only statement I've made in that comment.

So you shouldn't drive sober and there's not any research done to support that claim? lol.

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