A lot of drunk-driving on the news...

[beachguy_inthongs]

Alcohol. The Devil's drink. Here's a scenario:

Two cars are involved in a fender-bender, late on a Friday night. Both drivers have done drugs earlier in the night. One driver is drunk, the other is stoned, but if you're watching the initial interraction between the two, you'll blame the accident on person doing the legal drugs. No, ifs, ands, or buts.

I could go all day with this scenario. Imagine, if this paradise, called Virginia Beach, took a "pro-life" stance on drugs. Similar to Denver, but extreme. Outlaw alcoholic drinks and legalize Cannabis. This is how it would change:

The entire "Block" at the Oceanfront would be forced to cut off their alcohol supply. They'd consider changing their menu to support Herbal-highs as opposed to ethanol-highs.

Back to the accident scene...

The drunk-driver had just left the bar with his friends. The bouncer, or someone, says, "I hope you're not driving."

Meanwhile, the other driver leaves the smoking-bar, very much stoned. First of all, do you think he really feels like driving? Secondly, if he has to drive, paranoia would set in and he'd be ever more cautious. Forget the idea of being slow because you're stoned. Scientific studies have proven that more information enters your head as a result of activating your CB1 receptors.

A bunch of stoned drivers left a bar at the same time a bunch of drunk drivers did. Who do you think made it home first? What group do you think had the larger percentage of people who made it home safer? Who do you think drove the speed limit and stopped at all the stop signs? Which group saw the stop signs, and traffic lights, with double-vision?

Bottom Line: We have nothing to lose by switching over to an Herbal nightlife, or lifestyle, except liquor licenses and drunk-driving fatalities/injuries/property damage.

It would put a totally different perspective on "Peabody's"?

I'm pretty much over going out and having fun. I just want to use my unique, yet, limited knowledge and experience to see the World become a better place. Virginia Beach has a large part of my Heart (God knows that I've spilled enough blood on these streets) and it kills me to think of the path we are apt to follow with current socio-economic standards.

[chrish]

If you're trying to say that pot doesn't impair your driving - you're full of it.

I've been there and done that. Been with lots of friends who have been there and done that.

[beachguy_inthongs]

That's it? Your reply only contains a negative comment on Pot, but not one on Alcohol.

[chrish]

Alcohol isn't at issue.

You're attempting to make the point that smoking dope doesn't impair the driver, or that the driver, by his own paranoia will overcome the inebriating effects.

So my response is that's having lived through my own stupid abuse of pot and much MUCH more, I have quite a bit of real-world experience and know this to be completeley false.

I considered the minor issues you raise about alcohol being made illegal and general effects of alcohol (socio-economic and physical) as rhetorical since they're only being brought up to support your main (flawed) argument.

[beachguy_inthongs]

Maybe, I threw in too many words.

Why was there Alcohol Prohibition ninety-years ago? I don't know, but, I think it was because people were getting drunk.

I was thinking of an experiment that might drop casualty rates at a resort area.

[chrish]

Nopers - you got Prohibition all wrong. Back to history class for you.

Here's an experiment. Make everyone stay home, not drive, not walk, not talk to each other. Just sit there. Quietly. No movement. Nothing.

That way, nobody will get hurt.

[beachguy_inthongs]

Excellent idea.

I read that it was partly referred to as a Temperance Movement, or the Temperance Movement. I never studied it.

[Haul Asp]

Do you believe in a flat earth?

[beachguy_inthongs]

It's flat until I get to the Appalachians.