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I've known quite a few people who suffered from drug psychosis due to ridiculously strong skunk. Certainly more than with speed, coke or acid.
The cause of the panic attacks?
Weed.
I think we can all agree that alcohol doesn't improve anyone's safety behind the wheel.
Panic attacks don't mean you're being more cautious. They bring you out in a sweat, make you close your eyes, make you dizzy and possibly faint, and drastically affect your decision-making. Basically, making you a deadly threat to everybody else within half a mile of you.
He didn't report it to the DVLA and give up his licence. His GP did, because he was a hazard to everybody on the road.
I don't think that's a convincing example of how weed "makes you more cautious".
If it was the mild old grass of the past I would not be so bothered but skunk stinks and AFAIU a completely different kettle of fish.
Me too. I've read all of the very strong views that it's mostly harmless, but everyone I know who regularly smokes pot is a fucking douchebag and generally not exactly bright. And some of them were...
There is one super smart chap I know who smokes regularly at the weekends, and he's super smart but easily distracted and generally "blah" about everything. The minute weed pops up in conversation he's suddenly engaged! Weird.
All anecdotal so could be total horseshit.
It's an extreme example of the kind, by the sounds of it he's gone off the scale of caution into full-blown paranoia. I wonder how much he's smoked over the years to get to that stage. My point still stands - weed makes you more cautious, but yes, let's agree extreme caution of the kind described above can be dangerous.
I hereby refine my sentence to, "That’s an extreme example of why weed generally doesn’t translate into dangerous driving. It makes you more cautious, not less like booze", in an effort to make it more impervious.
It must take years of strong skunk to get to the panic attack stage. It only take 10 mins of vodka drinking to make you a dangerous drunk driver, is my point.
PS interesting breach of confidence by the GP.
Well, it's not an illegal breach of confidence. It's mandated by the General Medical Council that GPs have to inform the DVLA when patients are driving against medical advice, when the drivers themselves are breaking the law by not informing the DVLA of a condition that's affecting their ability to safely operate a vehicle. And, honestly, I'm glad about that.
I think it's become so strong in the last couple of decades that it's no longer a social drug, you can tell when you're talking to a regular smoker these days even when they haven't had any today.
That fine pinpoint of concentration required for wit, analysis and sharp banter just disappears, it's like being in an old people's home.
Weed & driving - is anyone seriously saying that this is OK? I've smoked enough of the stuff to know that I would not want to be behind a wheel whilst high.
Drugs affect your judgment, your perceptions and your reactions: not what you need to mess with when you are driving.
It's pretty bloody simple really.
*An Official Foo-Approved guitarist since Sept 2023.