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It's one of America's urban 'bad areas'. A stretch of street within city limits where you'll encounter drug addicts, homeless and the like. This is common in many major cities and some not-so-major.

@stux @lucifargundam @piggo

Indeed and years of 'experts' highly paid and apparently qualified still have not found a solution or solutions that actually work properly.

@zleap Ah that's sad.. :( Personally I think the "war on drugs" is a huge failure and totally the wrong way to handle it.. What country was it, that instead of locking up users, they're gonna provide "clean shoot-up places" and programs addicts could enter to get a better, drug-free life :)

I live in the Netherlands but we don't have this issue, not on this scale by far.. While some drugs are "gedoogd" here

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@stux @lucifargundam @piggo

So wjhat happens if a person is high on say Cannabis (pot) drives a car or ther vehicle and kills or injures someone. ?

I know pot is legal in Holland.

@zleap @stux @lucifargundam it sounds like it should be DUI no mater what "I" it was, alcohol is a drug too, after all...

@piggo @stux @lucifargundam

Agreed, in fact some medication can cause problems for drivers,

A good excuse to harmonise the law, DUI + DUI of anything that hinders your ability to drive, it may make the job of the police / courts easier.

@zleap @piggo @lucifargundam But that's how it works in most countries I guess? 😮

Everything that hinders your driving automatically makes you unfit to drive

@piggo @lucifargundam @zleap It's not weed that is the issue in the NL but more laughing gas these days..

Also my neighbours are hooked to it it seems and a lot of youth does it behind the wheel since it's not completely illegal (yet)

@stux @piggo @lucifargundam

We have a problem with that here too. just seems odd people want to breath in a gas that can be deadly if not used properly

Then again I had a chemistry set when I was 10 or 11, it said clearly in there about NOT breathing in reactants, I understood that even at 11.

@zleap Right.. :blobcatgiggle: It's big business over here damn.. There are known car accidents where people had their car stuffed with those cillinders, the big ones.. sooo dangerous @piggo @lucifargundam

@stux @piggo @lucifargundam

The laws need to keep pace can't be that difficult surely.

@stux @piggo @lucifargundam

I know CBD oil canbe used to help certain medical conditions, as cannabis is illegal here, those people also suffer unless they can get a special dispensation to import and use it. .

@zleap Oh you're so fucked.. These days the police has a kit to test on cannabis :) You'll get arrested like with alcohol
Drinking (and smoking) while driving is really not done
@lucifargundam @piggo

@zleap I beet haha! My gf and me are often watching to UK cop shows and it's soo often driver get caught with weed :amaze:

That's really not a big issue here while we have stores for that :blobcatgiggle:
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