Certain driving skills, such as steering a car and responding to changes in traffic, can be impaired by blood alcohol concentrations as low as .02 percent. The more alcohol someone drinks, the more impaired that person's driving skills will be impaired. ... Although these are high, impairment of driving skills begin at much lower levels. ... They quickly adapt to the alcohol, and their perceptions of the intoxication end up to be the same as the others. (#2) Besides having problems with alcohol, most of the children live with persuasive tension and stress, have higher levels of anxiety or...

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(Schleichert 40) Results also show that after two decades of declining marijuana use among high school students they are now using marijuana more than they ever have before.... Despite the misconception by many that marijuana does not effect a persons driving ability, the mix of marijuana and driving actually causes many deaths each year. ...

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So with continued use of drinking, kids performance level in school on tests will start to decline due to many effects that alcohol has on different regions of the brain. ... Therefore smoking marijuana can impair activities such as driving or playing sports. ...

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