Perspective | Everyone agrees ‘driving while high’ is bad. But what does that even mean?

It’s true. Basically, the amount of time that it takes for each person to “come down” to where they can drive normally is different for everyone. If you rarely partake in the essential herbs, you may need a couple hours after a single bong hit. If you use medical marijuana hourly to control your pain, you may be good to go just a few minutes after you smoke.
Allowing for driving skills variations, and the performance enhancement effects of cannabis…yes, some people might actually drive BETTER while “stoned”, especially if their driving skills are excellent to begin with…and you have a very hard time proving any correlation between THC levels and driving impairment.
IMO – Legally, as long as there is no accident and you aren’t driving erratically, you should be given a pass. Otherwise, throw the book at you, unless you can prove the accident was not your fault. I mean, the fact that you got in an accident while your THC level was “elevated” is a pretty good testimony against you being “ok to drive”.
Look…The bottom line is, if you’re feeling stoned and aren’t sure if you should drive, you shouldn’t drive. And be honest with yourself…lying to yourself when stoned is, like, really hard, dude.
Don’t be a dumbass…Take a few minutes…wait until you aren’t so fucking high. Or give somebody else the keys.
#News420

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10 Cars Most Likely to Have Been in an Accident

Predictably, really rich people are most likely to get their luxury cars fixed and not report the accident. Because you have to pay cash, and maybe a little bit extra to get the auto shop to keep the accident off the car’s “permanent record”.
Solution: Buy a beater that you KNOW has been hit at least once.

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Horrific Afghanistan bombing highlights stalemate in longest U.S. war

Let’s go back in history, just a few short years. The Soviet Union…remember them? They spent a whole bunch of years in the Middle East…mostly Afghanistan. #YadaYadaYada, it BROKE their economy. The Soviet Union broke up, and Russia is now desperately trying to hang on to influence in satellite countries that USED to be a part of its economy (like Crimea).
Well, that’s where America is headed. We are burying our nation in debt in order to continue the war efforts…an UNDECLARED war, that is almost as unpopular as our President. The only thing saving us for now, is that ALL of the world’s fiat currencies base their own values on the almighty US Dollar. For now.
But when the scales tip and we can no longer pay the interest on the HUGE debt, they will run to a new standard…and the USA will be fucked. Want an idea how big the debt payments are now? $210 BILLION. Almost the entire budget for MEDICAID. Dwarfing education and other social services budgets, our debt payments amount to 30% of our nearly $700 BILLION military budget!
Best of all, each tick in interest rates…each 0.25% increase in interest on those debts will send the payments soaring, until they rival/exceed our MILITARY budget, and eventually become unpayable. Suddenly, the world sees the USA as TOO RISKY, and no longer looks to the USD as the basis for commerce.
The Fed plans to raise interest rates 3 times in 2017.
History books will likely refer to this period as “The End of the American Era.”

ps…Here’s where all the stats/numbers came from: http://bit.ly/2qGb1I7 if you’re one of those fact checkers

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