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Actually, it does. I had a friend--well, we were friends years ago, but drifted--that crashed his car because he was smoking weed while driving. Ugh, he wasn't even wearing his seatbelt, so he went straight through the windshield. Fortunately and shockingly, he survived.
Another friend, who has recently stopped smoking, did it while driving a few months ago and said he could have gotten seriously hurt at least once. I forget what he said exactly, but he was all high and not paying enough attention, then either his friend suddenly pointed out or he suddenly realized he had been driving in the wrong for at least a minute. Lucky for him, there had been no on-coming traffic.
Anyway, go ahead and reply to tell me how this can't be true and such.
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I never said that it didn't happen, I just said that there's no evidence, or at least no convincing evidence that weed is linked to car accidents. Your friend's cases may be genuine but at the same time may be entirely as a result of alcohol, which has been found to have FAR more profound effects on driving ability than cannabis, which requires large doses to make someone dangerous behind the wheel. It has been said that even if there have been a few accidents linked to cannabis, they are still probably hugely outnumbered by the cases involving alcohol, so much so that the cannabis accidents are borderline insignificant.
People tend to forget that such evidence is not as damaging to the "legalise cannabis" initiative as they might think. Mainly because nobody has ever said that they know for a fact that it's harmless... they just know that it's infinately less harmful than smoking or drinking. As much as people will struggle to disprove and damage the reputation of marijuana, intentionally or otherwise, MJ makes it's own reputation by being the only drug without any related health problems in all of recorded medical history.
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From what i've seen with many-a-person, doing Weed is like opening the gateway to other drugs, which may eventually lead to Heroine. Lovely(!)
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The gateway argument is an oft beaten drum, and one that tends to come about as a misrepresentation of the facts rather than a viable conclusion based on findings. Because marijuana is such a popular drug, many people who try other drugs have already tried cannabis. As a result, this can be made to look like cannabis introduces people to the drugs, but in actual fact most studies have demonstrated that it's the peer pressure of drug-taking friends that most often introduces people to the other drugs. Marijuana itself has not been shown to ignite any desire to try other drugs, and in most cases people who smoke the weed tend to be against the taking of harder drugs. Also, because the sale of harder drugs carries a heavier sentence, most dealers will only acquire harder substances as and when clients request it, therefore they usually do not have the amount of drugs required to try to sell to all or some of their weed-only clients.
