3. Accidents Will Happen
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Few students of the subject of intoxicants and traffic safety now doubt that marijuana, like alcohol, can exert detrimental influence. Just how detrimental is debatable. The debate pits optimists ("it's much less of a problem than alcohol") versus those on the pessimistic side ("but who needs any new problems?"). Yet there can be no question that some drivers who met their ends on the highway would be alive were it not for marijuana.
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