Riding while under the influence of Marijuana.

[ninja dad]

i ride high quite a bit.
i went riding on mines road with a friend, and a guy from our work. you know how on some rides, everyone pulls over like every twenty minutes and shit? well, i smoked a few hits, or half a joint or so everytime. the guy from work was saying later, "man, he'd smoke some weed, and i thought, now i can fucking catch him. but he kept going faster and faster!"
been riding (and smoking) for twenty plus years.

flame on.

 

[*Tina*]

..at least you're not a Raider's fan..then I'd lose respect for ya...

Oh, to answer the OP, I smoke a lot, but I have never done so before gettin on a bike.

 

[iamrob]

Weed is for pussies.

It's all about smoking crack before you ride.

arty

 

[Cheyenne]

Smoking does not affect my ability to ride safely(IMHO), but when I am sober I have a really hard time reducing my aggression level. Consequently, I almost never drive or ride sober, although, I'm usually high anyways.

However, I have been doing this for over 15 years, and I don't take much of anything more seriously than I do driving/riding. So YMMV, and I would not actually recommend smoking before riding to anyone, most especially anyone inexperienced.

Even I didn't smoke before my first several rides, but more out of paranoia than anything else.

I would like to say that I smoke to party, and that is why I don't have a med card...but the reality is that I use it medicinally to deal with depression. I'm not getting "high" and having a blast. I'm smoking and feeling somewhat more human. Life being a party is an attitude, smoking weed is a crutch. A tasty, wonderful crutch...but a crutch.

Certainly, think about the fact that if you crash, or cause damage to someone else's property riding while high, the law is not going to be amused...

 

[Bouncer]

Ok I will add a technical point.. Pot slows reflexes and impairs vision.. So.. Yah smoke away..

It would be on par with the special group of Hardly riders that were recently spotted having a beer chugging contest in a parking lot during a ride..

There is a really simple answer to this question that has already been mentioned...

If some say that weed calms their nerves and allows them to ride faster, what is it affecting?

Judgment.

 

[Albal0ney]

It is not great to be BLOWN out of your mind while riding but a little blazed is fine, depending on how technical the riding is.

I made some special brownies a few weeks ago for the first time and tried them out after work. I got a small head change and was a little disspointed, so i went for a ride. Halfway into the ride the brownies actually hit me really hard and I was so blown i wasn't even having fun so I just went home and enjoyed the high while not riding.

 

[Hooli]

This thread is making me hungry.

 

[iamrob]

It would be on par with the special group of Hardly riders that were recently spotted having a beer chugging contest in a parking lot during a ride..

Because everyone knows smoking the pots makes you aggressive.

 

[iamrob]

It is not great to be BLOWN out of your mind while riding but a little blazed is fine, depending on how technical the riding is.

I made some special brownies a few weeks ago for the first time and tried them out after work. I got a small head change and was a little disspointed, so i went for a ride. Halfway into the ride the brownies actually hit me really hard and I was so blown i wasn't even having fun so I just went home and enjoyed the high while not riding.

Those brownies can sneak up on ya!

 

[ninja dad]

cheyenne, we'll have to go riding sometime.
we can kill brain cells and citizens at the same time!

 

[Karbon]

the only drug i ride under the influence is caffeine. And i get a little bummed about that sometimes, thinking about how in a very minor way ruins the purity of the experience. One of those existential kind of deallies. whatever.

I know people who are general potheads and function "normaly" under the influence., that is to say they ride fine while stoned.

I personally I cant do it 'casue i've smoked myself retarded in HS.

 

[fonseca]

Smoking does not affect my ability to ride safely(IMHO), but when I am sober I have a really hard time reducing my aggression level. Consequently, I almost never drive or ride sober, although, I'm usually high anyways.

However, I have been doing this for over 15 years, and I don't take much of anything more seriously than I do driving/riding. So YMMV, and I would not actually recommend smoking before riding to anyone, most especially anyone inexperienced.

Even I didn't smoke before my first several rides, but more out of paranoia than anything else.

I would like to say that I smoke to party, and that is why I don't have a med card...but the reality is that I use it medicinally to deal with depression. I'm not getting "high" and having a blast. I'm smoking and feeling somewhat more human. Life being a party is an attitude, smoking weed is a crutch. A tasty, wonderful crutch...but a crutch.

Certainly, think about the fact that if you crash, or cause damage to someone else's property riding while high, the law is not going to be amused...

Good on ya man.

A lot of riders I see riding locally could use a hit. Might settle their fookin "Rossi" complex! Too many riding too far over their heads.

 

[Bouncer]

Because everyone knows smoking the pots makes you aggressive.

Who cares about aggressive.. I think reflexes and judgment matter a bit more..

I've sparred with guys before they smoked, and after they had only smoked a bit.. Trust me.. There is an incredible difference.. It's like you just clicked the speed down a few notches on playback.. Reflexes were incredibly slower..

* Edit.. I'm not anti pot in ANY way...... Uh.. Trust me...

I just think that being under the influence of any substance that slows reactions, clouds judgement, etc. etc. while your life depends on those very things is a bad idea.. - It doesn't even matter the type of riding involved.. You can get just as dead riding on non-technical sections of road at pretty much any speed..

Sorry if the local potheads take offense to simple logic..

 

[HumboldtReign]

im perfectly comfortable with the idea, but then again....im a stoner.

too many variables just to make a "poll". it really would depend on your own comfort level: anything from your own comfort with smoking in general (i know a lot of people who cant even function anyway when they are stoned), and your own comfort level while operating a motorcycle in general.

 

[Bouncer]

im perfectly comfortable with the idea, but then again....im a stoner.

too many variables just to make a "poll". it really would depend on your own comfort level: anything from your own comfort with smoking in general (i know a lot of people who cant even function anyway when they are stoned), and your own comfort level while operating a motorcycle in general.

That's the same argument that an alcoholic would make about what constitutes "drunk".

 

[SM610]

Typically, riding stoned works great until you have a problem, and then at that point, all you can say is "Gee, I wonder if I'd be in the hospital if I wasn't stoned..."

 

[Aluisious]

Smoking does not affect my ability to ride safely(IMHO), but when I am sober I have a really hard time reducing my aggression level. Consequently, I almost never drive or ride sober, although, I'm usually high anyways.

I find something new to love about you every day.

As for the question...riding while you're high on MJ is only safe if you take something to counteract the effects, like amphetamines. Just make sure one doesn't wear off before the other, so keep a little of both in your jacket, just in case.

PS keep the MJ in baked goods...trying to light up while you were riding would be difficult, dangerous, and obvious, but slipping a brownie is pretty easy if there aren't many cars in front of you.

 

[jroymcd]

screw that.

I once had a few beers after work. I tried to ride home. I pulled over after 2 miles and waited it out. Felt like I was driving on crack. This coming from a guy that could drink a 12 pack and feel like he could still drive a car.

I no longer smoke or drink and drive. Drug free going on 5 years.

 

[DJNick]

This thread is making me paranoid.

 

[Cheyenne]

I find something new to love about you every day.

Ditto...I write a lot of replies to you, and never post them.

As for the question...riding while you're high on MJ is only safe if you take something to counteract the effects, like amphetamines. Just make sure one doesn't wear off before the other, so keep a little of both in your jacket, just in case.

You should come for a ride in the car with me sometime while I'm sober...and then high. I guarantee you will prefer me stoned...

But really, do you have any experience to back up what you say? I think not...I have driven, many years ago, on a mix of weed and meth, and I can tell you, it's far, far less safe than weed alone. Alert, yes, judgement, timing, reason, etc. severely diminished. I drove like I had a DMV tester in the car (as best I could )

The worst of all though, which I'm guilty of doing far too much, is driving tired...Bad News, and many think little of it.