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Pot-related fatalities up

Drugged Driving- over 1/2 deaths are marijuana related
Link: 
Pot-related fatalities up [1]
Article Date: 
Tuesday, March 11, 2014

Tags:

  • Fatalities [2]
  • car crashes 2 [3]
  • car crashes [4]
  • Colorado [5]
  • Drugged driving kills an average of two people per week in Colorado. That’s more than four times the number of deaths of Columbine and Century Theater combined.
  • One half of those deaths are caused by marijuana use.
  • Deaths caused by drugged driving are increasing at the same time overall traffic deaths are decreasing. The most rapidly increasing cause of drugged driving deaths is marijuana use.
  • Fatalities caused by drivers who tested positive for marijuana increased 26 percent.

If you think legalizing marijuana won't affect you... Think Again.


Source URL: http://www.rethinkpot.org/pot-related-fatalities-0

Links
[1] http://smartcolorado.org/marijuana-causing-more-drugged-driving-deaths/
[2] http://www.rethinkpot.org/tags/fatalities
[3] http://www.rethinkpot.org/tags/car-accident%2A
[4] http://www.rethinkpot.org/tags/car%2A
[5] http://www.rethinkpot.org/tags/colorado%2A