The driver who rammed into a Texas church tour bus last year had marijuana and Clonazepam in his system. He drove his pickup truck erratically and killed 13 passengers in the bus. The National Traffic Safety Board (NTSB) report said that both marijuana and the prescription medication are depressants, and could magnify the effects when taken together. Continue reading Texas Marijuana User Involved in Deadly Bus Crash
Medical marijuana proponents have a nationwide effort to add opiate addiction to the list of conditions for medical marijuana. They aren’t just saying medical marijuana is a replacement for opiates; they are now pitching it as a medical treatment for opiate addiction. The marijuana industry’s savvy marketing campaign is bigger, trickier and even more devious than Big Tobacco and Big Pharma ever dreamed. Yet many people who get addicted to opiates were already addicted to drugs via marijuana.
Mixing marijuana with other drugs is becoming so routine that “drugged and stoned” is a new normal. Just because another person didn’t die from doing “dabs” and mixing it with Xanax doesn’t mean we shouldn’t warn our children of this dangerous practice.
The addiction-for-profit industry, i.e., the marijuana industry, is trying every tactic imaginable to promote drug usage. The current propaganda that pretends marijuana is treatment to opiate abuse is EVIL. We condemn those shameless promoters who encourage people to use marijuana based on the theory that it doesn’t cause toxic overdose deaths. Recent deaths have put a dent into that theory, however. In Seattle, Hamza Warsame jumped six stories to his death, after he the first time he tried marijuana in December, 2015.
Many marijuana driving fatalities are caused by drivers on a cocktail of drugs in addition to pot. The driver that killed two and injured several others in Santa Cruz had marijuana and an unnamed prescription drug. The driver responsible for a 3-car crash in Indiana had marijuana, Xanax and drug paraphernalia on him.
A crane operator in Philadelphia killed 6 people while high on marijuana and a codeine painkiller pill, in July 2013. This accident highlights the inability to see accurate perception of depth when stoned. The crane operator hit the wall of the Salvation Army thrift store next to the building he was demolishing. He had no intention to harm people. Operating any type of heavy machinery under the influence of drugs puts all of us in danger.
The worst car accident by a driver in recent memory was caused by a driver who used both marijuana and alcohol. Driver Diane Schuler killed 8, including 5 children, in the Taconic State Parkway crash in New York on July 26, 2009. It appears that the driver was in pain. Schuler, three of her nieces, her 2-year old daughter and three men in the oncoming minivan died. Schuler used marijuana regularly to deal with insomnia. (Insomnia is a condition promoted by medi-pot advocates.)
Marijuana lobbyists try to portray marijuana customers as single drug users. Multi-substance addiction is the norm today.
Read Part 1 For Ansley Rayborn, 14, it was a fatal decision to go into the car with another teenager who had been drinking and smoking pot. Ansley was a freshman at Chiles High School in Florida. She was spending the night at a friend’s house when the two girls met up with other kids. The 15-year-old driver was stoned, drunk and only had a learner’s permit. Ansley died while the driver and three other teens escaped from the crash with minor injuries. Continue reading Stoned and Drunk is a Deadly Combination
