I don’t know, is it possible to crash while driving 5 mph?
Why don’t they just say they belong to the Kennedy clan? Obviously drugged driving is legal then.
Sadly the dope user, like a drunk driver, will take others with him or her.
The problem is that there isn’t a method to determine if a person is DUI with marijuana.
Likely BS.
Fear texting & talking on a phone.
The studys conclusions have nothing to do with the title of the article. Also any test for pot will show for 30 days not the 7 stated in the article. Did Michael Mann write this??
So basically it shows that they detected more people who've smoked pot. Did the people change, or did the testing change (or maybe both)?
“... remained steady at 40% throughout the decade, drug related deaths soared from 16% in 1999 to a whopping 28%...”
Remained steady...soared...whopping. No bias there.
There are so many loopholes in this story that I don’t know where to begin. First, in the not so distant past, full scale toxicology tests were not standard operating procedure for every motor vehicle accident that resulted in death. The tests were too expensive and too unreliable for routine use. Thus, we can’t tell from the reported statistic whether there has been am increase in stoned drivers or an increase in testing for stoned drivers. Second, the active ingredient in marijuana — THC — is fat soluble, which means it stays in the body for many, many weeks after the intoxicating effects have long worn off. To the best of my knowledge, there is no reliable test for determining the level of actual impairment from marijuana at a given moment.
If you are stopped at a red light, and either stoned or drunk, and you are rear ended and killed by a semi driven by a perfectly sober driver, you become a victim of pot or alcohol. They really mess the statistics up.
Meanwhile some states are rushing into “medical” marijuana.
Placemark.