President Obama Says Marijuana Should Be Treated Like Alcohol

[Warren DeMontague]

13. Oh, bullshit. Legalization is working fine and there isn't any increase in any of those.

First off, people have been smoking marijuana for decades. This hyperbolic crap that suddenly now there's gonna be some giant influx of stoned drivers is baloney.

Also, there is already a way to determine whether people are incapacitated, it's called evidence of impairment combined with field sobriety testing. Some states as well have adopted measurable tests for THC levels, however, those are not necessarily a good idea since THC being fat soluble can show up in the blood even without impairment. But even in those states, they're not running around testing everyone on the road. Impairment is, again, the threshold.

And in the meantime people are working on realistic equivalents of a breathalyzer to test for marijuana. There is no good reason to oppose legalization, unless someone is on the drug war gravy train or otherwise emotionally invested in telling consenting adults what they can do with their own bodies on their own time.