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I know I shouldn't be doing it, but it's not like I'm doin it everyday. Grades are good, I'm as healthy as ever, I met some cool new people I'm now friends with, and best of all it allows me to cool down through a hard week of school. Right now I really don't see the need to stop. Just one question, did the reports say the driver was high at the time they crashed or that they found marijuana in their urine/blood? Cause in some of the commercials I see say " The driver of this car (it was wrecked) tested positive for marijuana." The driver could have gotten high last week, not necessarily was he high when he crashed.
I used to deal with lawsuits arrising out of accidents. I handle cases were Pot and other drugs were alleged and I also saw cased where there was scientific evidence. I also saw many cases where witnesses testified to the driver using drugs immediately before the accident and in some cases at the time of the accident. I had one case where a young kid was shooting up and passed out. He was sitting at a gas station with the car still in drive. He passed out and his foot hit the gas. He took out a gas pump, 2 cars, 1 pedestrian, some bushes and ended up in a store front. He woke up in the E/R.

Your responses and general attitude towards pot does not sit well with me. I lost one of my best friends to drugs. You sound just like he did when he was a few years younger than you. At 15, he was already doing Heroin. He started out with pot at about age 12 I guess. He was 19 when he died. He was shooting up and somehow caught his house on fire after passing out. He died in the fire. He had been clean for about 2 years. College actually calmed him down. However, when home from college, he hooked with some of his old friends and fell back into it. I normally tried to come home with him just for that reason but I did not that time. I stayed at school due to my job. He had only used once or twice while back at home when he died. I know this sounds like some stupid add against drugs but, kids your age are not physically, mentally nor emtionally able to deal with drugs in most cases. I know my friend is not always the norm, but it can and does happen. Something to think about.

JSE