Recent comments in /f/springfieldMO

BataMahn3 t1_j78trrb wrote

No, dingleberry, my point is that Missourians are generally bad drivers and your stat backs that up. Its literally legal to use the phone behind the wheel in missouri, which can and does lead to more accidents. Anywhere else in the union and you'd get a ticket for driving while distracted. You being butthurt because 'muh statehood' changes nothing. You have no argument other than "nu-uh!" Acting like a simplified fraction is "mashed up stats" to fit my "narrative" only says more about you and the public education system, than it does about my "narrative". Pretending that texting\any cellphone use isn't distracted driving makes me wonder what you classify distracted driving as, not that I care. Let me put it another way, out of 5 tiers for being a shit driver, Missourians are tier 2, with tier 1 being the worst. Get it? The laws that prohibit distracted driving of any kind in MO apply to texting and under 21s, which is a weak law at best. I have no idea how many fatalities you've scraped off the road, but I have more than my fair share, and a very healthy portion of them were people too busy fucking with their phone, their dog, their hair, etc. If you are honestly okay with you and your family being next to people who are distracted driving because "we're 10x better drivers than we should be" is your standard, by all means, live in a dangerous shithole. But I think the rest of us are interested in making it to the destination were going.

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sstruemph t1_j78pa9i wrote

Reply to comment by GundleFly in Cheese by BetterMakeAnAccount

Ah and of course now I see that OP said to not mention the cheese cave but here I went ahead and did anyways. Oof, I literally did not read that far. But hey, you win some and you lose some but you live to eat cheese another day

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[deleted] t1_j78myac wrote

All the licenses have been bought up by the MED dispo’s through a β€œfair” lottery system. Even if they did open they could only do business with Missouri REC manufactures who are already own the MED manufacturing license. Whoever informed you on that should consult legal advise before jumping in without the proper knowledge.

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Training_Highlight69 t1_j78mn09 wrote

I actually have a friend who had to go to the ER a couple months back because he took too much delta-8 thinking it wouldn't fuck him up as much as weed would. He lives in a state where he can't get a card unless it's a critical medical condition, so he got this vape from a regular vape shop that he frequents.

Truth be told, that's probably the closest thing to an OD on pot that I can think of.

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ifollowmyself t1_j78ie2q wrote

>you don't need to cause an accident to get a ticket for that

But your whole argument is that Missouri doesn't have laws for this. If you can be ticketed for using a phone, not just texting, and not causing an accident; then it would seem Missouri does have laws for this..

The graph you link refered specifically to texting while driving, nothing else; you keep changing the goalpost from texting, to all phone use, to distracted driving.

We're in the 4% for distraction, yet in the 40% for accidents. Means we're 10x better drivers than we statistically should be despite being distracted. See, I can use mashed up statistics to fit my narrative to.

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ICareAboutNihilism t1_j78hmhl wrote

If only this had been recreationally legal for 13 years prior to this and medically legal for 2 decades. For people who aren't retarded, the complete and total absence of marijuana overdose deaths is enough evidence for us, but Sheriff Bunch Huggins over here apparently knows better than all of science or just the very nature of reality itself.

I guess that's why he's the Sheriff and I'm punching a clock at a job that actually helps and serves people.

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