MARIJUANA CAUSES FATAL CRASHES, TOO

I am still in shock that someone would write a letter stating that
marijuana doesn't kill (March 5 letter, "Many substances kill; not marijuana").

I am a former police officer who has responded to many, many traffic
accidents where a family was in their car, stopped at a traffic light
waiting for the light to change when someone plowed into the back of them
at 60 miles an hour killing mom, dad and children.

Often the person driving the car that crashed into them would emerge from
their car, unhurt, with glazed eyes, slowed motor skills and slowed mental
ability and ask, "Did I hit someone?"

Investigation would reveal that the driver of the offending car was under
the influence of marijuana and was so impaired that he was unable to
function rationally.

Does marijuana kill? Damn right it does. It not only kills, it leaves a
path of destruction of broken and mangled bodies on our highways every day.
I am a personal witness to it.

Is alcohol just as guilty? Yes. But is marijuana less guilty? No!

Anyone who could possibly think that marijuana doesn't kill either has a
vested interest (via usage), is horribly naive or simply slow-witted it
would appear from the empirical data collected from thousands and thousands
of traffic accidents.

Don V. Snavely, Shell Knob