Study: Smoking joints doesn't affect regular cannabis users' cycling ability

Mungecrundle wrote:

Acid test. Would you be OK if you saw the surgeon who was about to operate on you sharing a spliff with the aneasthetist in the scrub room as you are wheeled into theatre?

Depends on the procedure. If it was an everyday operation like an ingrown toenail, then I wouldn't necessarily be worried and I'd be more concerned if I saw them chugging a pint of espresso and had shaking hands. The worst would be a surgeon that looked nervous.

Yorkshire wallet wrote:

If you drink/smoke weed/lick toads and then cycle you are a twat. Only smoked weed and drove  once and as previous post says, I could tell I wasn't sharp at all (blunted!) and never did it again.

Cycling is safest when you're on the ball, not impaired. No use crying about driving standards if you can't live by the ones you set for other people.

False equivalence?

Being impaired whilst driving puts other people at risk, whereas being impaired whilst cycling typically puts yourself at risk (obviously there are edge cases where a cyclist kills babies or somesuch).

I've certainly cycled under the influence and to be honest I tend to take more risks when I'm sober and have definitely performed more risky maneouvres. However, I did scrape my hand on a wall once when I was very drunk and unicycling home.

mike the bike wrote:

Don't forget some of the bravest, most effective and most decorated soldiers in Vietnam were as high as a kite most of the time.  A little grass didn't stop them running towards the excitement.

In WWII Russian and German tank crews and infrantry were often drunk.

In the Royal Navy the daily rum ration continued until after WWII.

There's a reason that people in the army and navy were deliberately given alcohol.

On the other hand, the only pilots routinely given alcohol before combat were Japanese kamikaze pilots.

Can you see where I'm going with this or do you want me to spell it out?

charliemac74 wrote:

Timed runs on an off-road downhill course may well produce different results...

I used to work for a famous mtb manufacturer in the west coast of Canada many years ago. A lot of the tech's were utter stoners who liked nothing better to ride up the North Shore mountains behind Vancouver, get absolutely caned on prime BC skunk and then descend down the 3000ft mountain back home.

Not for the feint hearted. Or the sensible...