Legal weed could be accelerating car crashes
Legal weed could be accelerating car crashes
13 January 2022
New research from Canada shows after cannabis was made legal there in 2018 the amount of users of the drug increased by less than two-percent.
However, moderately injured drivers with blood-THC levels over two nanograms-per-millilitre more than doubled.
Researchers suggest these numbers could indicate users of cannabis may have relaxed their attitudes towards driving while intoxicated since it was legalised.
Though, they caution the largest increase in THC presence was observed among older drivers, whose motor-skills may be more severely impaired than younger drivers.
They also say the presence of THC doesn't necessarily mean a crash was caused by cannabis.
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