<p>The police would save more lives by strictly enforcing alcohol laws.</p>
<p>^spot on Hunt.</p>
<p>Wow, that seems really high.</p>
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[Alcohol</a> involved in 42 percent of Alabama highway deaths - al.com](<a href=“http://www.al.com/news/birminghamnews/index.ssf?/base/news/1219652153174320.xml&coll=2]Alcohol”>http://www.al.com/news/birminghamnews/index.ssf?/base/news/1219652153174320.xml&coll=2)</p>
<p>A typical woman would need to have three drinks in an hour to have an alcohol level of .08.
How many people drink that much & that fast?
Lord knows how they drink enough to double that.</p>
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<p>I agree. I wonder how vigorously the Tuscaloosa police are going after underage drinking or drunk driving.</p>
<p>As TonyK said, “Jim Beam is still the biggest thrill of all.”</p>
<p>And how do you know this about the deep South, Aquamarine? That may be one of the more dumb generalizations I’ve seen here on CC.</p>
<p>I knew that would probably antagonize some parents from the south. Sorry. I retract that statement.</p>
<p>Greenbutton, IME, upper and upper middle class parents are FAR more likely to get a plea bargain for a drug bust down to say disturbing the peace or littering. I am appalled at the consequences for minor drug busts, and how I believe they are handed out far to frequently for lower and lower middle class youths. I think they can easily discourage kids who already have fewer options. So, IMHO, it is FAR more likely an upper or UM class kid shows up at college with what seems to be a clean record. So if that kid and a LC kid get picked up, it is like piling on what can happen to LC kid.</p>
<p>And those upper income kids have more options to fund their education, if they do end up with a record. Lower income students are not more likely to use drugs, but ARE more likely to be caught, and the face more severe consequences.</p>
<p>Note also that a felony drug offense will prevent you from claiming the American Opportunity Credit, but any other felony (including murder) won’t.</p>
<p>Arrested for pot? Really? What a waste of resources. I’m sure there are far more pressing crimes these troopers could concern themselves with.</p>
<p>These kids are in college.
They still can’t wrap their minds around what is and what it not legal?</p>
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<p>Gives a whole new meaning to the phrase “Roll Tide.”</p>
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<p>For anyone interested in reading more about this, there is a discussion on the UA forum also.</p>
<p>DUI pot is more serious than many pro pot folks like to admit. For one the stuff today is FAR more potent than it was back in the day. </p>
<p>[Driving</a> under influence of marijuana a growing problem](<a href=“http://missoulian.com/special-section/news/medical_cannabis/driving-under-influence-of-marijuana-a-growing-problem/article_1d9f6f8a-2137-11e0-a0be-001cc4c002e0.html]Driving”>http://missoulian.com/special-section/news/medical_cannabis/driving-under-influence-of-marijuana-a-growing-problem/article_1d9f6f8a-2137-11e0-a0be-001cc4c002e0.html)</p>
<p>It is true that marijuana is often more potent these days. But it is also true that people self-regulate. There is no evidence that THC bloodlevels of users are higher.</p>
<p>I think that’s kind of hard when the stuff today is so potent that a couple hits gets you pretty high. Gets harder to self-reg then.</p>
<p>But the reality is that we HAVE been testing blood for breakdown of THC content for 40 years, and we don’t see an increase. So either the potency thing is a myth (don’t think so), or amount of THC content consumed has remained stable. (In other words, where folks used to be smoking two joints, they are now taking three hits.)</p>
<p>Did some of you casually dismissing this as unjust and assuming the students were simply smoking a little bit of pot miss this, especially the parts about weapons, narcotics, cocaine, etc.?</p>
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<p>They have the names of the 74 that were arrested online and what they were charged with. 1 was charged with having a fire arm, 6 for drug paraphernalia ( I guess they didn’t have any pot on them at the time.) 8 were charged with controlled substance which I think means the drugs other than pot along with pot charges. The rest were for possession and/or sale of pot and having drug paraphernalia.</p>
<p>I dont think that students under 21 should be using any substances, however given that marijuana is much less harmful than say, alcohol, the response seems a little xtreme.</p>
<p>barrons, I am strongly in favor of legalization of pot, and I really do not see what that has to do with DUI. DUI is wrong and endangers the lives of others, no matter whether the substance involved is alcohol, pot, a legally prescribed drug, or benadryl.</p>