when i was in high school, driving was the safest place to go for a toke. 44 years of doing that without an accident says something. funny how :"counterintuitive" this seems to those who think the high is comparable to alcohol, which it is not. when you enjoy driving, you are a better driver than most. cannabis is a gift from god, with so many uses. that's why they can never legalize it. big pharma, big booze, big petrochemicals, big law enforcement, wall street, can't stand it, because they would become obsolete. hey, they could get new jobs in the business it would create, but they are glued to the past.

the claim that it's legal to drive while impaired by cannabis is patently ludicrous. it most certainly is illegal in every one of the 50 states, the district of columbia, and all of the territories. not only are their laws against driving while cannabis addled they're more punitive than dui laws as a general rule of thumb. in dc a first offense drunken driver can jump through a series of hoops and have his charges dismissed; the cannabis addled driver has no such option. you do no good for the cause of re-legalization by making absurd claims that taking enough cannabis can't cause someone to be too impaired to drive safely. instead of my being able to point out that while these studies don't prove that cannabis addled driving is safe, they do prove wrong the claims of carnage and mayhem on the highways if we pass medicinal cannabis patient protection laws in the hysterical rhetoric of the know nothing prohibitionists, i had to deal with your absurdities. please stop posting nonsense.

people under the influence of marijuana drive more slowly, not more recklessly as drunks do. they tend to be more cautious drivers, perhaps b/c they don't want a confrontation with a traffic cop. but also, perhaps, b/c marijuana simply makes people safer drivers -- they tend not to be in a hurry. if marijuana negatively impacted driving, after 30 years of the knee-jerk "just say no" war on drugs hysteria and attendant political posturing, there would be the equivalent of dwi laws for it in every state in the union; the fact that there are not such laws is another indicator of the relative safety of toking and touring. oh, and the article's suggestion that smokers are more likely to choose a designated driver is ludicrous.