Tony Stewart runs over and kills another driver.

[EDGECRUSHER]

Screw that, he was racing while high? How the hell did that not screw him up? Some guys can't do 25 MPH while high without hitting the curb and he was in a fucking race car?

[Sunstroke]

^^^ But some people have no problem with it. I taught a DoD level 3 defensive driving course while high every day. I also do math better when properly buzzed.  Marijuana affects different people in different ways.

[Phishfan]

I knew a dirt track driver that was high on marijuana, pills, and had a few drinks before every race. The guy happened to be a pretty good driver.

[AZ Fins Fan 55]

^^^ But some people have no problem with it. I taught a DoD level 3 defensive driving course while high every day. I also do math better when properly buzzed.  Marijuana affects different people in different ways.

I know people who function better while high as well.

[Sunstroke]

Marijuana. Apparently enough to impair his rational judgement. -EK

The bottom line is that if the amount of marijuana Ward smoked didn't impair him enough to make him unable to drive a race car, it wasn't enough to impair his rational judgement enough to get him to wander out onto the race track.

[CF DolFan]

I am 100% confident that I have smoked more pot than anyone on this board over the past 38 years, and I cannot fathom marijuana alone, no matter how much you smoked, causing a person to wander out onto a race track.

I'm fairly certain I've seen you smoke as much in one day than I have in my entire life! LOL

Anything that alters the mind causes a person to make decisions that they normally wouldn't make. I mean ... isn't altering one's perception the reason for getting high/drinking etc.?

[Brian Fein]

Consider me crazy, fine, but I'd think that auto racing would be the one place where DUI/DWI was strictly disallowed.  Maybe I'm naive.

[masterfins]

The bottom line is that if the amount of marijuana Ward smoked didn't impair him enough to make him unable to drive a race car, it wasn't enough to impair his rational judgement enough to get him to wander out onto the race track.

Wellll, ya know he did crash into the wall, so maybe it did impair his driving ability.

[masterfins]

^^^ But some people have no problem with it. I taught a DoD level 3 defensive driving course while high every day. I also do math better when properly buzzed.  Marijuana affects different people in different ways.

The amount, and regularity of usage, also determines how it affects your behavior.  I know people who smoke every day, the good stuff (no really, the GOOD stuff), and it barely affects them because they have built up such a tolerance, as I'm sure you have.  Others, who only occasionally smoke can get wasted off a couple puffs.  Not much different than functioning alcoholics that get up in the morning and start drinking, and you'd never know it because they have built up such a high tolerance.  What Ward's tolerance level was is unknown.