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U.S. pedestrian deaths remained high in 2017, highway safety group estimates
03/03/2018

Kara Macek, spokeswoman for the GHSA, said the organization could point to several possible factors in the high level of fatalities: increased exposure to danger as more drivers hit the road and more people move to urbanized areas, an uptick in distracted driving from cellphone use, or even an increase in accidents in states that have legalized recreational marijuana use.
The GHSA report noted that in some states that have legalized recreational marijuana — Alaska, Colorado, Maine, Massachusetts, Nevada, Oregon, Washington and the District of Columbia — pedestrian fatalities went up 16.4 percent in early 2017, while all other states saw a 5.8 percent drop.
“We lack causation data, but can see a correlation,” Macek said. “This is a red flag we need to look at as a country. We don't have a position on marijuana legalization, but we do have a position on getting people home safely.”


car crashes, pedestrians, Governors Highway Safety Association
Marijuana Use: Detrimental to Youth
09/01/2015

In summary, marijuana use is harmful to children and adolescents.  For this reason, the American College of Pediatricians opposes its legalization for recreational use and urges extreme caution in legalizing it for medicinal use.  Likewise, the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP) recently offered their own policy statement opposing efforts to legalize marijuana. They similarly pointed out that “marijuana’s deleterious effects on adolescent brain development, cognition, and social functioning may have immediate and long-term implications, including increased risk of motor vehicle accidents, sexual victimization, academic failure, lasting decline in intelligence measures, psychopathology, addiction, and psychosocial and occupational impairment.” 


youth, pedestrians, legalization, ACP, Resource Paper
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
The Impact of Marijuana Policies on Youth: Clinical, Research, and Legal Update
01/26/2015
youth, clinical, Research, legalization, pedestrians
Palm Bay man charged in pedestrian death
05/16/2014

A blood sample was taken from Asker after a police investigator detected marijuana impairment.


Impairment, Death, DUI, pedestrians, Fatalities, car crashes
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