Callie Long
I detest drunks. I won’t judge someone for drinking but I won’t hang around anyone that is drinking either. I grew up around a drunk so I like to think my very strong dislike for drunks comes from seeing it first hand and feeling like alcohol and drugs were always more important than me and my brothers were. There is something I hate more than drunks though, and that’s dumb asses that get behind the wheel while they’re drunk.
I don’t know how my brothers and I ever lived to adulthood. Our family drunk put us in the car nearly every day and drove. It had to be by the grace of God or Allah or Buddah or some deity that we never ended up in a wreck.
I remember being under the legal driving age by quiet a few years and driving this person out to the liquor store to get alcohol. Our county was dry so you had to drive about 10-15 miles to the closest store. It was always the family joke that he could drive better drunk than he could sober.
I learned a lot of little life lesson’s from this person’s negative example, so I am thankful for that. One of those lessons were that I do not drink at all, ever, and my husband doesn’t drink either.
I just can’t comprehend what possesses people to get behind the wheel after they’ve been drinking.
This is Callie Long, age 62. As you’ve probably figured out from my opening she likes to drink and drive. She graced the headlines with her presence on August 27, 2003 in Lubbock, TX. This case infuriates me and I think know it will you to. After 7 years the people of Lubbock 
are still pissed about Callie Long and the injustice that was done.
Callie, like many other drunk drivers and in spite of all evidence to the contrary, decided she was able to drive. She was driving down the access road of the 3600 block of Loop 289 at 11:22 p.m. when she mowed down 29-year-old cyclist Brett Walrath, a former personal assistant to criminal DA Bill Sowder in her 1993 Lexus.
Most people would stop immediately and get out and try to assist the victim and call 911 for help. Callie isn’t most people, she’s a drunk and only thinks of herself. Callie continued on her little journey and Mr. Walrath was hit a second time by 
another vehicle.
Callie was stopped a few blocks later – fortunately someone must have witnessed her run down Mr. Walrath and called her license plates in. Guess what happened then? Yep, she failed a field sobriety test and was arrested on intoxication assault. She had a BAC of .13.
She was held in the Lubbock County Jail in lieu of $75,000.00 bond. Callie posted bond and was out the next day. See, Callie was a successful real estate agent, owning Callie Long Realty and was moderately wealthy so the bond was not an issue.
While Callie sat her self in jail for the very short amount of time she was there, Mr. Walrath was laid up in ICU at UMC Hospital fighting for his life while his pregnant wife prayed he would pull through.
Mr. Walrath suffered closed-head trauma, brain stem damage, multiple fractures and was in a coma. He was taken in for surgery the next morning and was described as being “gravely injured”. Callie was indicted on November 24th, 2004 for intoxicated assault and failure to stop and render aid.
Brett was in a coma for almost 5 months before he succumbed to his injuries, in April of 2005. Accordingly, the charges against Callie Long were upgraded to intoxicated manslaughter with a deadly weapon, aggravated assault and failure to stop and render aid.
She was also found guilty on those charges. She faced a sentence of two to twenty years in prison. Two to twenty years isn’t much of a sentence in my opinion when your talking about murder but it’s at least something.
Now her’s wher things get a bit confusing, so I’m going to let Lubbock Online tell it for me:
Long was convicted in April 2005 of intoxicated manslaughter and given a two-year sentence with the finding that a deadly weapon – her car – was used in the crime. That would have meant she would have served the full two years in prison.
However, an appeals court overturned the case because the jury had not been given the opportunity to convict her of the lesser charge of driving while intoxicated.
Her recent trial was for the offense of failing to stop and render aid. She was convicted but given a six-month term of probation. District Judge Brad Underwood added 60 days in jail as a term of probation or she would not have been required to serve any time in jail.
Sounds pretty routine, right? But wait, we’re not done yet. Long appealed her 2007 conviction for failing to stop and render aid. Prosecutor Hobson then announced his intent to refile the DUI manslaughter charges.
Back to the negotiations table!
Long on Thursday pleaded guilty to driving while intoxicated, bringing an end to years of protracted legal battles between Long’s attorney, Danny Hurley, and Special Prosecutor Rod Hobson.
Part of the agreement that came with pleading to the Class B misdemeanor, Long agreed to drop the appeal of her 2007 failure to stop and render aid conviction and Hobson dismissed pending intoxication manslaughter and aggravated assault charges.
So Callie Long essentially served no time in prison for taking the life of Brett Walrath. She served sixty days for failure to render aid, and another ninety days for intoxication manslaughter. Five months of Callie Long’s life equals the sum total of Brett Walrath’s life.
Once again, the message is a life taken by a drunk driver isn’t worth as much as a life taken in any other manner. Once again, the lesson is that the consequences of killing a person while driving intoxicated are that there are no consequences. It’s sad, really.
WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED HERE? Where is the justice for Brett and his family? How could our system fail? After all these years I still cannot help but to get furious when I think of Callie. I can feel my blood boil and my face turn red when I think of the miscarriage of justice in this case. I can not believe this bitch is driving around on the same streets that my family and friends are driving on and my son will soon be driving on. It makes me sick!
Brett paid with his life for Callie to have a night of fun. Brett was never able to hold his first born child – he ought to be in the 1st grade now. Callie has gone on with her life, she wakes up everyday, I’m sure her life hasn’t changed that much. Certainly not as much as Brett’s families lives have changed. It’s been said a hundred times Callie Long never showed any emotion or remorse for what she has done.
Most of the stories I write because I feel a closeness to or some kind of bond that I can’t always explain or put into words. I was born in Lubbock, TX and lived there for many years. Most of my family and friends still live there, my 2 teenage sons still live there with their dad.
Although it is my birthplace I’ve always stood by my belief that Lubbock is run by a ‘Good ol’ boys’ network’ It’s always been about who you know and how much money you have. This is a prime example and there’s many more cases like this in Lubbock. I plan to write about everyone I know about because there are a lot of victim’s in Lubbock that have been forgotten and have not received the proper justice they deserved. In this case, our justice system failed.
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Good story Stone! As a former drunk myself, I also can’t stand drunks. They’re annoying and irresponsible and I hate to see what I used to be brought back to life in that way, so I tend to avoid people who drink. I also used to drive drunk often and I am grateful every day that I didn’t take anyone else’s life in the process. I have been clean and sober for 2 1/2 years, so I’m one less person on the road drunk. But, it happens all too often and it’s so sad that people who take lives in this way can get off with less than a slap on the wrist, free to do it again to another family. What do you bet that Callie Long is still drinking and probably driving?! She wasn’t punished for her first offense, so what’s to stop her?
I will admit that in my high school years we used to ride the back roads and drink. Now that I’m older with a three year old of my own I have come to realize how dumb it was. After reading this story I realizE how ignorant, stupid, irresponsible, and uncaring it was. Like you, I grew up with alcoholic parents. They would even have me and my siblings mix them their “high balls” or whiskey and coke.and then proceed to lock themselves in their bedroom and we were not allowed in. My parents started beating eachother up over drunken non sense. Beating the hell out of eachother. Throwing eachother through walls. I remember waking one morning to find my dad sleeping in the spare room with a GUN under his pillow.My dad owned a very successful contracting business, but it went to shit when he started the alcohol abuse and we lost EVERYTHING. My mom got clean, but my dad didn’t. He was arrested for abuse and they took him to the psych ward where it was found he had Hyperthyroidism. Which was magnified by the drinking. My dad was arrested on my 13 birthday. I will never forget it. He has been clean since. After reading this story, I’m sure my dad drove drunk and that alone just horrifies me. Now that I’m 21 and can actually process, I’m pretty sure A LOT of what my parents did while under the influence was wrong. Thank you for this story. It made me thankful my dad was not hurt on one of his “liquor runs” or someone else because of his carelessness. It also made me thankful my dad is a sober, church man now. And he is working his way back up the business ladder, sobberly.Thank you.
I found her email… Am I allowed to post it?
No, we don’t publish personal info here – thanks for asking Gabby. We may not agree with her sentence, but she’s served her time and we can’t in good conscience promote any form of harassment. Putting an email address in the hands of the wrong person and God knows what could happen.
I understand, that’s why I asked first.
Can I send her mug shot to Yahoo under the “Do you have a photo of this business?” Link for her realtor service?
I think I know what your going to say… Harassment. But it I thought I would mention it, it would be kind of funny. At least if you’re just thinking about the outcome.
So disgusting. I remember seeing a video about a guy who was drinking and driving, he was like 19, and permanently, horribly disfigured a young woman in an accident. And he got like 20 years +. Why does she get no punishment?
Thank you Max for cleaning this one up for me, several years have passed and the legalities had me confused as hell. I’m sure you could tell as I was trying to explain it. There were so many twists and turns in this case it was ridiculous, the more I tried to figure out how to word it the more I became confused lol.
One thing I did leave out, Callie Long lost her Real Estate business. Bret’s wife filed a civil suit and won. :)
Sadly, as I said this is very common, too common. While I was writing this article 2 more women in separate DWI’s cases murdered 2 more people this month. The first girl is a 21 yr old Texas Tech student, she drank about 5 beers and some shots of liquor. People actually helped her to car because she was unable to walk. She hit and killed a woman who was in town visiting her children and grandchildren. If I were to bet on the outcome, I would say she will get probation and a fine. Her father owns several car lots and is well known. Her family posted bail within just a couple hours and are now blaming everyone but her.
The other woman is a repeat offender with at least 3 prior DWI’s, she crossed the highway going the wrong direction and murdered one of our Lubbock County detention officer’s. She’s being charged with murder because she did have priors. I’m happy to see that she will be charged but this has been an epidemic in my hometown and this woman is only the 2nd person in our town’s entire history to get a murder charge.
Last week there was another DWI related accident. Two motorcycles were riding to closely together and the one behind hit the one that was in front and they wrecked. They had been drinking and the rider was in ICU. She didn’t die, she was lucky, they were all friends and they had all been drinking together. This happened in front of my ex-husband and sons home.
Congratulations Nicolenumbertwo on your sobriety! I know it’s not an easy path but it is so worth it. My father was a meth addict, actually he did anything he could shoot up. He’s still an alcoholic and so is my step mother. They both have hepatitis and sclerosis of the liver. I’ve seen my dad go through withdrawal when he was trying to quit both addictions, it’s horrible. I’ve also seen them so desperate to get their next fix that they stole from me and my ex-husband. My daughter moved out in May when she turned 18, she started doing ecstasy. She just moved back home to straighten herself out and attends NA every night and works 2 jobs to stay busy.
We lost my brother in a horrible car accident in 2002. He was 25 and left behind a wife and 4 kids. I had not seen my dad in years because I refused to put my children into that kind of lifestyle. My brother had not seen him either for the same reasons. Our only other brother followed my father’s footsteps and ended up in prison when he was 15, he just got out Feb. of this year, he’s now 32. When my brother died I had to go find my dad at 4a.m. and tell him his son that he had not seen in so long was dead, turn on the news. He quit drinking and drugs after that. In the last year he has picked drinking back up and takes Vicodin for some unknown cause and he doesn’t have a prescription for them.
I haven’t seen him in a year. The only difference between now and back then is that he is now a very successful business owner. He clears a minimum of $40,000 a month so he can drink and take all the pills he wants and he can afford them to. My kids are 13, 15 and 18 and have spent maybe a total of 2 years getting to know him. He didn’t get what being a father was and he still doesn’t get it now.
I’m sorry about your dad. It must be hard to see your kids growing up without him, but as parents I guess we do what we have to do to protect our babies! I guess it’s a good thing that he got off meth though. I did that as well (along with any other drug you could possibly think of) and it has to be the worst thing a person could do to their body. I have known too many people who have thrown their entire lives away for the shit and it’s sad. Unfortunately, the drug and alcohol trap is a hard one to stay out of and, for some people family will never come before getting high. We definitely see a lot of that here :(
Brett Walrath never got the chance to see his newborn baby because of that selfish drunk. How tragic! I hope that Brett Walrath’s widow sues that bitch for every penny that drunk has, or will ever make again. She and her baby will win a huge judgment and will own that drunk’s house, real estate business, personal property and bank account. Unfortunately no amount of money can ever replace Brett Walrath.
I suspect that Callie Long has been drinking a Long Long time. Her face looks swollen like long time drinkers do, so I’m sure drinking and driving is just regular business for her. Why didn’t the prosecutors demand, as a term of the plea agreement, she could NEVER drive again and must relinquish her driver’s license??????? WHY?
I just reread Stone’s post about Brett Walrath’s widow winning her lawsuit. Good for her.
I can empathize with people who have substance abuse problems, because I’ve struggled with my own self-destructive coping mechanisms throughout most of adolescence and my adult life. I’ve never been an addict (I dabbled in drugs when I was younger, but never developed an addiction), but I think the root cause of self-destructive tendencies — regardless of how they manifest — is often similar. As such, I can understand the pain that leads to addiction
What I can’t empathize with, however, is people selfishly hurting others by making no effort to shield them from the effects of ones addiction, especially when you put those people’s lives in danger just so you can self-medicate.
I don’t know what possesses a person to get behind the wheel drunk, but in any case, people who drive while intoxicated are the epitome of negligence. They’re the bottom of the barrel. You want to put yourself in harm’s way, go right ahead, but don’t fucking put everyone else in danger just because you’re too much of an asshole to call a cab or walk home. The very fact that this piece of shit got behind the wheel after drinking tells me that she’s a selfish cow who doesn’t give a shit about the well-being of others.
Even more telling is the way she left this man behind, injured and alone, after hitting him. How god damn selfish do you have to be to drive off instead of helping a person who is obviously in desperate need of aid? Especially when you were the one who hurt them? I don’t care how scared of going to jail you are, if you’re a good person, your conscience won’t let you drive away like nothing happened. If I ever hit someone while driving, my conscience would have me tethered to the scene, doing everything I could to undo the damage I had caused. This goes double for a situation where the accident was 100% my fault.
This bitch deserves to rot in jail for a long, long time, and the fact that she’s walking around free after taking a life is nothing short of an atrocity. A few months in jail for causing a man’s death? Probation for leaving a child fatherless? What a fucking joke.
I am the mother of Stone and it kills me to know what their Dad put them threw and I was to stupid to get out and take care of my kids,he always said he would take the kids from me.He always told me I was to stupid to take care of them,you know when you hear it over and over you believe it so I was to scared to run,I am very proud of my children and I Thank Malysa for standing up for what she believes. Love Mom
Thank you mom, I love you and I know you did the best you could in the situation that was dealt to us, I have never blamed you, you were as much a victim as us kids were. I’ve never said it, I don’t show emotion easily, but I celebrated when dad finally left you because I knew you would have never left him, I knew that you could finally begin to heal after 20 years of hell.
I’m a recovering alcoholic and I used to drive drunk occasionally. How stupid I was. I’m so glad I didn’t injure anyone or worse. I sometimes struggle with sobriety though I’m sober about 97% of the time (yes I’ve worked it out!) But I’ve not driven under the influence since I wised up to how selfish and stupid it was about 6 1/2 years ago.
It’s one thing to have a problem with booze, but when you start putting other’s lives at risk or making your family’s life miserable it’s really time to start wising up. When I face temptation one of the things I think of is how much my parents and other family want me to stay sober. Addiction’s not a choice – but recovery is. And so is drink driving – whether you’re intoxicated or not. It’s an easy choice really – once ANY alcohol passes your lips, don’t drive. That way you never have to worry about being over the limit. If you give yourself that rule you never run the risk of being even slightly impaired. If you had even one drink and ran someone over, wouldn’t you always wonder if your reaction time would have been faster if you were totally sober?
I don’t live in the US but I understand that in some parts it’s literally impossible to get around on public transport and you really must have a car. But people like this Callie Long, and I think there are lots out there, need to realise having a car is a privilege not a right, and when you are given that privilege you are put in charge of a potentially deadly weapon.
Ms. Me, It’s an uphill battle all the way and only the strongest survive. It’s a known fact that addicts will almost always “fall of the wagon” several times while attempting to clean up. What is important is that you pick yourself back up and try again. This is what separates you from some of the others and although I am nobody, I commend you for it and you have my respect.
Your right, smaller towns here do not have public transportation but there is always an alternative to drinking and driving. There is no excuse that will ever be acceptable to drive after someone has been drinking.
I don’t understand the mentality of someone that can get behind the wheel after they have been drinking. I do believe in an eye for an eye when it comes to negligence and if you take a life then you should loose yours to. I would never make a good politician. It’s said that our state has one of the swiftest judicial systems and we execute more than any other state. If it were up to me, there are several more names I could think of to add to the death row system that got very lucky.
Being a recovering alcoholic myself I know what it’s like to get off and on the wagon. I struggled with off and on with alcohol and drug addiction since age 13. I was in my first AA meeting at age 20 in 1980. There was a period of time in my life I had over 15 years of sobriety only to give myself permission to drink again and went straight down the road to hell in a hurry. I’ve been sober now for 3 years.
Not meaning to get into all of that I realize this is not a speaker meeting. By no means am I taking up for drunk driving but few if any alcoholics are probably thinking about “I’m drunk I can’t drive”. I never got behind the with the intention of killing anyone, I doubt few if any drunks do. It’s a selfish disease if you will and it is only by the grace of God that I never hurt or killed anyone myself driving impaired.
The only reason I bring this up is I see people post “why would anyone in their right mind get behind the wheel drunk” therein lies the answer if you are drunk you are not in your right mind. Doesn’t excuse you from any responsibility if you hurt or kill someone it’s just there is no such thing as a responsible drunk. I use to think I was a responsible drunk because I made it to work regularly. BULL SHIT!
She is responsible for the death of another human being and she should have paid a higher price. I only hope it doesn’t take another death at her hands in order for her to go to jail and sober up. I’m willing to bet she at this point has not sobered up.
Man, it’s cases like this that really piss me off. This poor guy was mowed down by this stupid, drunk of a woman and barely gets a few months! My brother got into a car accident at the age of 19, the car hydroplaned, no alcohol involved, but one of his friends in the car with him passed away. My brother pleaded guilty to Involuntary Vehicular Manslaughter and was sentenced to 2 years in prison. And this POS gets 2 months?! For stripping a child of his/her father? For taking away a husband?! Where the HELL is the justice in that???
there is no such thing as justice. we are always too busy trying to understand “why they drink?” “whats going on in their heads” I frankly don’t give a shit. I think its bullshit your brother did jail time for something that was really an accident and dumb cunts like this get to walk away scott free. sometimes I wonder if things would be different if a judges/prosecutors kid was the victim…
Disgusting. Honestly, I feel that drunks should be forced to drink more. Sit her ass in jail and force alcohol into her system to the point she is so sick she can’t stand it, and then give her some more. And if she dies from alcohol poisoning, oh well. I understand that alcoholics have a problem, but when they get into cars and drive they become EVERYONES problem. I don’t think it is at all fair that some dumb bitch who wanted a drink is the reason why two innocent people are dead. What gets me the most is that when they sober up, they blame the alcohol. Did jack daniels drive the car, bitch? Drunk drivers who injure/kill people should be treated just like any other murderer because that is what they are…
This story sounds like one that happened on my street, which then touched off a major debate on road side memorals – one of which I put up.
I tried to find this bitch’s contact info – I have faxed some people the story and comments when they have made it to this site.
congrats Brent on your 3 years :)
this is not addressed to you in particular, just in general. if a person is going to drink they need to give their keys to someone responsible if possible. because, absolutely, judgement is very impaired when you’re drunk and a person could decide it’s ok to drive “just around the corner” or whatever, when sober they’d usually condemn drink driving.
an alcoholic woman i know in her 40s who is highly educated drove home intoxicated from a work christmas party with her 2 year old and her dog in the back. she ran into some parked cars, nobody was hurt, but when she was breath tested she blew 0.32. here is a smart, educated woman, who loves her child to bits who was still capable of making an incredibly stupid idiotic decision. she was so lucky – she didn’t go to jail. i’m sure if i lived in america she would have. and quite frankly i wouldn’t have felt sorry for her.
On Halloween a young woman (24) was hit by a drunk driver and killed. What makes this story even worse, this woman saved at least three children by pushing them too the curb and tossing her own four year old daughter, who she was holding.
The man that hit her took off and stayed gone until the middle of Nov. (To clear things up, we actually celebrated Halloween on Friday the 29th rather then Sunday.) Now his lawyer and family is claiming if he gets anything more then a slap on the wrist and because he’s been through enough… It would be a case of racism.
Personally, I think it’s bull… They state that a young girl got into a car drunk, over turned the car… Killed another girl who was 18 at the time. And the driver didn’t get any kind of violation because she had, “been through enough” by killing her friend. The only difference between the two, the driver was a white female… This is a Mexican male.
Personally I feel that BOTH drivers should be arrested and charged with murder. Our city has DWI check points. The whole town gets on their phones and texts the check point locations so everyone else can avoid them. We have billboards and signs of people who’ve died because of DWI crashes. We have cages of wrecked cars, covered in flowers, teddy bears, with more pictures of victims. You can’t drive down a major street in this city and NOT see the face of a DWI victim.
The DMV has posters up. One poster was of a young girl who’s face was horribly mangled and looks more like a skull then a face with the words, “Not everyone is killed in a DWI crash.” People KNOW the dangers. People know what driving under the influence can do. 100′s of pictures of people who were killed by people who ‘thought’ they could drive and hanging all around my town. People should not be getting away with this crap so easily.
I don’t see how this differs from 1st degree murder one bit. There is no one who has a drivers license in this town who can’t say they didn’t pass by one of those signs at least once a day. If I walked into Wal Mart and blindly just shot a gun in the air… Wouldn’t I get charged and possibly executed??? I knew that I could hit someone. I knew that they would likely die. The only difference between a bullet shot from a gun and a drunk driving a car is the speed and size of the bullet.
I’m sick of worrying about my child’s fever and if I have enough Tylenol because I don’t know whats more important getting their fever down or risking my life because it’s 2 a.m. and the drunks are out. It’s litterly a crap shoot every time you have to leave your home at 2 a.m.
Seriously? We will keep having ignorant people getting in their car after drinking if they are not punish properly. I think this is a joke, they need to be punished the same way a person who intentionally grabbed a gun and shot someone.
I agree, these people do not “accidentally” get into theirs cars and drive them. They make a decision to drive. They should be charged with murder not intoxicated manslaughter or any of the ridiculous charges that are brought against them. Just last month in the same city there were three more MURDERS by drunk driving. I’m tired of seeing of it, my heart breaks for not only the victims, the family of the victims, but also for the murderer’s family because it’s not their fault.
Alcoholism and drug addiction is a very selfish and hellish addiction. I’ve seen people choose their addiction over their children, I’ve seen them become homeless and live in their cars taking their wife and kids with them.
I’ve heard people say it can happen to anyone. NO I guarantee it cannot happen to anyone, you make conscious decision to start drinking/doing drugs.
I agree.. 100%. But we hear about their ‘rights.’ Well what about OUR rights? We do everything right. We don’t drive unless we’re sure that we’re fit. We work, paid for our cars and insurance. We do it all by the law. WHY make us put up with and suffer from their actions? As far as most of these people think, a license is just plastic that you can live with or with out.
I’m not talking cruel and unusual punishment. I’m talking about having the punishment fit the actual crime. Impounding every car that a DWI offender is caught driving, even sober is a great start. Take those cars away and give them to poor families who can’t afford one. It’s obvious that installing intention locks on cars doesn’t work when they can get someone else to blow into it.
What about working with finance companies. When a person buys a car… Have a line about ‘if convicted of a DWI, the car company can repossess the car.’ As harsh as this sounds… Let’s think about down the line and the results of this. Not only does the offender lose access to a car, but others that own the car will think twice about allowing a person to use that car.
Money can be earned, community services can be served as can jail time. Once it’s over, it’s over… That’s it. They don’t think about it again. Hit these idiots and enablers where it hurts.
I am a recovering addict. I got into AA & NA in 2002 but relapsed in 2004. I stayed clean while i was pregnant but started smoking marijuana shortly after she was born. I have never been able to drink, it gives me migraines BAD. By the grace of God i’ve been clean since October 24, 2008. One day at a time though.
I was always the DD. My mother n law is an alcholic and I hate it. She lives 6 hours from us(THANK GOD) but when she comes to visit or we go there I do not allow my daughter to stay with her by herself. Her best friend was a day care owner/operator and always had a bunch of kids in her vehicle and always DRINKING with all those kids in the car. She, my monster n law, didn’t understand why that I wouldn’t let this woman babysit my child. UMMM HELL NO SHE’S A DRUNK THAT STAY DRIVING with all those kids.
That’s one reason why i love PYSIH everyone, except the trolls, is understanding and yet we can agree to disagree on something but still be ok with each other. I LOVE YOU GUYS & GALS!! And thanks for accepting me everyone and being so nice.
When you say marijuana.. I don’t (personally) feel that it is any worse then alcohol. In fact, my understanding is that it’s less dangerous then alcohol. You don’t hear about people ODing on it and dying in one night. At least I never have. I also feel that it’s totally hypocritical to out law one and not the other. I’m totally 100% for legalizing pot, even though I don’t take part in it.
As with alcohol, there is a time and place for it. Behind the wheel of a moving car is neither the time, nor the place for either substances.
If pot is the only thing you are using, cudos too you. Sometimes I really wish I had the balls to do it.
Gabby I agree with, I do not see a problem with marijuana either. I also think it should be legalized and it has been in about 17 states now for medicinal purposes. Medical research has proved that it is helpful in some cases. I have never heard of a negative affect from someone using it (other than possible weight) and although I have heard some claims of it being a gateway drug I have not seen any proof of it.
As far as drinking there is a time and a place for it. If you are a responsible adult there is nothing wrong with it. Because of my experience’s with it I choose to live alcohol-free. I also choose to not be around friends/family while they are drinking. It doesn’t mean I disassociate myself with them 100% of the time it just means I am uncomfortable and will not put myself in a situation that brings back painful memories.
Tiffany, Congrat’s on your sobriety! My daughter is in NA, she’s 18 and has been clean for a little more than 30 days. You know the saying, 90 meetings in 90 days, I believe is what it is. She goes everyday and has started announcing the FNL’s. I’m proud of her and so far she has not had a relapse. I think staying busy is the key, for her anyway, she working 2 jobs, so with work and the meetings it’s all she has time for.
That’s why pro athletes get away with the things they do. The guy that shot himself in the leg got more time than the guy that ran a man down while he was drunk. People get silly when they drink too much and when your financially loaded you’re invincable (sic?) apparently.
Hopefully, the family took Callie to Civil Court and bankrupted her “moderately wealthy” ass!
I used to drink and it became a very bad habit. I was drinking everyday and didn.t think twice about having a drink at 11am by early evening i would be pissed. And i did drive on a couple of occasions im ashamed to say. Then i became ill and developed type 1 diabetes and had to stop drinking straight away. Because i didn.t drink no more the people who i associated with my drinking buddies, when i watched how they behaved while they were drunk and i was sober was an eye opener, they were loud obnoxious, rude and generally acted like stupid fuck’s and it dawned on me that, that is how i behaved while drunk. I can honestly say that getting diabetes was a good thing to happen to me, but the point is that on then occasions when i did get behind the wheel when i was drunk was the most stupidest thing i ever did i could have hit somebody i could have run a child or anybody down but because i was drunk i couldn’t think rationally. I believe if your drunk and you kill someone or hurt them you need to pay the price
People think Texas is so hard on crime but we fail beaten children continuously and our sentencing of drunks,even thosr who kill, is a damn joke. Our cops do their job. It is our damn judges that slap them on the wrist. Drunk drivers /killers very rarely do any time in Texas. We had a man in Bandera that killed his brother while driving drunk ,he got no jail time. To add insult to injury he had 13 DWI’s between Texas,New Mexico and Oklahoma. Yet it never occurred to my great state to lock his ass up. I hate to see who he kills next.