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Six Ways Science Says Marijuana May Hurt Your Health
06/27/2015
Danger, science, car crashes 2, Brain, addiction, heart, car crashes
Driver strikes six pedestrians, killing one in Vallejo
06/19/2015

Lt. Kevin Bartlett of the Vallejo Police Department said that marijuana was found in the car and that the driver was at a medical marijuana dispensary in town prior to the crash. While Bartlett said that it’s not certain whether that played a role in the collision, it is being looked at, among other things.


car crashes, pedestrians, car crashes 2
Nearly 70 per cent of cannabis users report driving under influence: research
06/09/2015

He said users' attitudes conflicted with established scientific evidence, showing cannabis increased the risk of motor vehicle crashes by up to 300 per cent.


Australia, car crashes 2, car crashes
Driver admitted smoking pot before deadly Hwy. 281 crash
04/30/2015
car crashes 2, impaired, TX
Teens choose to drive with high drivers more than drunk drivers
04/29/2015
Teens, impaired, car crashes 2
Autopsy: Ulele server accidentally drowned in Mango Lake
04/04/2015

The autopsy showed Foster had a .098 milligrams-per-liter level of THC, or tetrahydrocannabinol, the intoxicating ingredient of marijuana. Pearson said that is a significant level.
“That indicates very recent use,” she said. “I would say she used marijuana within a half-hour or an hour before she died.”

 


Death, car crashes 2, alcohol, Florida, tampa
Addressing Driver Impairment Difficult
03/26/2015
Colorado-0, car crashes 2, Impairment
Police: Teen driver who struck, killed Broomfield HS student Chad Britton was high at time of accident
03/17/2015

A teen accused of killing 16-year-old Broomfield High School student Chad Britton in a November car accident near the school was driving under the influence of marijuana, according to police.
He got behind the wheel of his car after smoking weed, even though a friend tried to persuade him not to drive, police officers testified at a preliminary hearing Tuesday.
The 17-year-old driver, who authorities have not identified because he is a minor, is accused of killing Britton by hitting him with the car. The teen is suspected of smoking marijuana before the crash, and had only had his drivers license for six days, police testified.


Teen, car crashes 2, car crashes, Fatalities
Drugged driving poses greater highway danger
03/01/2015
car crashes 2, Fatalities, PA, car crashes, highways
Pot and pills the new choice for intoxicated drivers
02/26/2015
car crashes 2, impaired, Fatalities, pills, car crashes
We Save Lives- Drugged Driving
02/21/2015
car crashes 2, car crashes
August 2014- Legalization of MJ Impact Colorado
08/13/2014
Colorado-0, youth, car crashes 2, Death, exposure, alcohol
2014- Colorado Impact Study- Driving Impaired Section
08/01/2014

Overall, traffic fatalities in Colorado decreased 14.8 percent, from 2007 to 2012. During the same five years in Colorado, traffic fatalities involving operators testing positive for marijuana increased 100 percent.

In 2007, Colorado traffic fatalities involving operators testing positive for marijuana represented 7.04 percent of the total traffic fatalities.  By 2012, that number more than doubled to 16.53 percent.


car crashes 2, impaired, Colorado-0
Six Ways Science Says Marijuana May Hurt Your Health
06/29/2014
addiction, heart, car crashes 2, Impairment, Death, Brain
NIDA review summarizes research on marijuana’s negative health effects
06/05/2014

The authors review literature showing that marijuana impairs driving, increasing the risk of being involved in a car accident and that these risks are further enhanced when combining marijuana with alcohol.


health, car crashes 2, Impairment, Research
Marijuana use involved in more fatal accidents in Colorado
05/15/2014

They reported that Colorado underwent a significant increase in the proportion of drivers in a fatal motor vehicle crash who were marijuana-positive after the commercialization of medical marijuana in the middle of 2009. The increase in Colorado was significantly greater compared to the 34 non-medical marijuana states from mid-2009 to 2011.


Colorado-0, impaired, car crashes 2, Fatalities
Pot-Booze Combo More Dangerous for Teen Drivers Than Alcohol Alone
04/28/2014

Teens who drank and smoked pot at the same time were 90 percent more likely to get a ticket and 50 percent more likely to be in a wreck.
 


car crashes 2, alcohol, pot
Metro: Marijuana impairment rising among drivers
04/17/2014

During the last three years, Metro's forensics lab screened 4,500 blood samples for marijuana with the bulk of those being impaired drivers.
Metro said marijuana is dangerous because it slows down mental reactions and a driver's judgment of time and distance. Statewide records from 2002 to 2012 show 45 percent of drivers who were impaired by drugs had marijuana in their system.


car crashes 2, impaired, Las Vegas
Don't Go to Pot
04/01/2014

Marijuana does possess certain medicinal properties. So does opium. But we don’t allow unscrupulous quacks to write raw opium prescriptions for anyone willing to pay $65. And if we did, would anybody be surprised that the vast majority of opium buyers were not recovering from surgery—and that many of them shared or resold some of their opium to underage users?


Medical, car crashes 2, impaired, IQ
Pot-related fatalities up
03/11/2014
Drugged Driving- over 1/2 deaths are marijuana related
  • 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.

Fatalities, car crashes 2, car crashes, Colorado
Hillsborough DUI - Marijuana Impairment
02/24/2014
car crashes 2, Impairment, DUI
Pot Fuels Surge in Drugged Driving Deaths
02/15/2014

Cannabinol, a remnant of marijuana, was found in 12.2 percent of those deceased drivers during 2010, (up from 4.2 percent in 1999). Pot was the most common non-alcoholic drug detected by those toxicology screenings.


car crashes 2, impaired, alcohol, Colorado-0
Pot Fuels Surge in Drugged Driving Deaths
02/15/2014
car crashes 2, car crashes, Colorado
Six - State Study Finds Drugs Other Than Alcohol Increasingly Detected in Fatally Injured Drivers; Cannabinoids Most Prevalent Other Drug Detected
02/10/2014
alcohol, car crashes 2, traffic, Fatalities
Trends in Alcohol and Other Drugs Detected in Fatally Injured Drivers in the United States, 1999–2010
01/28/2014
Studies, car crashes 2, national, Epidemiology
Marijuana and Drugged Driving
06/11/2013

Institute for Behavioral and Health- 
The threat to public safety on the roadways posed by marijuana-impaired driving has been pushed to the top of nation’s agenda by the legalization of marijuana in Colorado and Washington as well as by the legalization of “medical” marijuana in 18 states and the District of Columbia. Marijuana has significant impairing psychological and physiological effects on driving. 


car crashes 2, impaired, IBH, Research, Studies, car crashes
Impact in Colorado of legalizing marijuana- April 2013 (Data is before recreational legalization.)
04/01/2013
Colorado-0, car crashes 2, youth, emergency room
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