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Originally Posted by Tripper

Nah, because there are laws against driving drunk, and they can pull you over, test you and also arrest you for it - It's so much more well-known as a bad thing to do that alot of people don't do it because they know it's wrong both legally and morally...As they feel they're not putting people at risk.
It's not like that with being stoned - All the people that smoke, that I know and hang out with smoke or have smoked weed, and most of them drive while stoned - It's not a big deal at all to people who smoke alot - unless of course they've had a bad experience.

There's no big socially declared problem, and no real way of testing for it, so alot of people do it without fear of being caught and most people don't feel as though they're even doing anything wrong, which there always is with driving drunk....So actually, you'd probably get a fair even amount of drunk drivers and stoned drivers.

I'm sure drunk drivers think they are good drivers while drunk too. And no, there are not as many stoned drivers as drunk drivers, there are thousands and thousands of drunk drivers on any given night. Marijuana is used much, much less than alcohol. And I wouldn't say that all drunk drivers know they are doing something wrong and doing it anyway. I think most drunk drivers think they can handle themselves and are therefore ok to drive, so they don't think they are doing anything wrong either, but then again, they have impaired judgement at that time.

Now I'm gonna go Machette on this thread and post a link with research. happy:

http://www.ukcia.org/research/DoseRelat ... rashes.pdf