@photographthesun 548128 wrote:
Driving on any drug is foolish even weed (no idea why stoners think its acceptable it totally fucks your reaction times and god knows what else).
I find driving a car hard enough when 100% sober TBH (still learning) – probably because I’m sober and more aware of the risks (and roads are busy anyway here).
that is the real reason why the cops round here and in TVP and hantspol don’t like unlicensed raves and are wary about hall parties in remote rural areas especially when you’ve got young and new drivers going hundreds of miles. My own friends have lost about 10 of their mates from RTCs, far more than from drugs alone.
most cops I’ve encountered in the last 10-15 years (even when I’ve been arrested for drugs) have openly said that the only reason they support drugs control is because of risks to users and other peoples health and safety when drugs are used incorrectly, similar to alcohol, and especially if driving is involved. OK this is in affluent areas of SE and Eastern England but its a different attitude to what I’d stereotypically expected the Police to have.
At least licensed premises are usually situated in areas within walking or cycling distance from housing estates (though I’ve never trusted leaving my bike locked up in town, there is one pub in the whole of Ipswich I think it is safe at), and those who drive to and from them are monitored. I’ve even witnessed a traffic officer from TVP speak to my friends who were part of a party crew and congratulate them for holding a warehouse party in a town and encouraging people to walk or cycle to it rather than drive, he had been sent there to use the special camera in his car to gather evidence and he actually said “this really isn’t the best use of my vehicle, I should be out on the A-roads making sure the traffic is safe”.
A wider problem is that Britain as a whole (due to the natives individualistic nature and a lack of joined up transport policy) is far more dependent on cars than it is on drugs (especially if you live outside a big city like London or Manchester) so hardly surprising that folk combine the two and come to grief.
