As legal marijuana spreads and the opioid epidemic rages on, the number of drugged drivers killed in car crashes is rising dramatically, according to a report released today.
Forty-four percent of fatally injured drivers tested for drugs had positive results in 2016, the Governors Highway Safety Association found, up more than 50 percent compared with a decade ago. More than half the drivers tested positive for marijuana, opioids or a combination of the two.
“These are big-deal drugs. They are used a lot,” said Jim Hedlund, an Ithaca, New York-based traffic safety consultant who conducted the highway safety group’s study. “People should not be driving while they’re impaired by anything and these two drugs can impair you.”
Nine states and Washington, D.C., allow marijuana to be sold for recreational and medical use, and 21 others allow it to be sold for medical use. Opioid addiction and overdoses have become a national crisis, with an estimated 115 deaths a day.
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13 comments:
It ain't the marijuana these dope heads are nodding out. Its insane.
Surprise? Not really. Each time this topic comes up the smokers and dopers come out and proclaim how harmless their fondness for weed is. Wrong then; wrong now.
DUI/DWI isn't defensible, and neither THC-UI.
Dopers lol. We cant wait for your generation to clear out
6:33 AM. When that occurs you may have to work to survive. Double up on your smoking so we don't have to read your dumb comments much longer.
Just because they test positive for marijuana, does not mean they are high at the time of the accident. Marijuana stays in your system weather you are high or not at the time. Takes 30 days to clear out of your system, once you stop.
Amen to that! Tired of having our lives dictated by antiquated laws concerning cannabis - stay out of my life and I’ll stay out of yours. This includes getting behind the wheel.
‘our generation?’
good luck lol
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its a PLANT for Gods sake...
6.33 without us, you snowflakes are going to die! You can't survive without someone else paying your way through life.
" Anonymous said...
Just because they test positive for marijuana, does not mean they are high at the time of the accident. Marijuana stays in your system weather you are high or not at the time. Takes 30 days to clear out of your system, once you stop.
June 1, 2018 at 9:24 AM"
This is not true. Tests detect the *active* presence of THC in the bloodstream.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Surprise? Not really. Each time this topic comes up the smokers and dopers come out and proclaim how harmless their fondness for weed is. Wrong then; wrong now.
DUI/DWI isn't defensible, and neither THC-UI.
May 31, 2018 at 9:53 PM
OH, horsecrap. Maybe more people are smoking more often now since it is legal in many areas now. Like someone has already mentioned, it stays in your system whether you have smoked any recently or not. That doesn't mean they were high. The benifits still outweigh the knuckleheads who choose to drive impaired
Without us haha, it wasn't the Millennials who created this mess.
The job of the government has NEVER been crime prevention (ie. the removal of free will). That is a strictly JEWISH concept.
Government prosecuted crimes AFTER they occur. This is called Common Law, and it is Constitutional.
Statutory Law (Jewish Talmud Law) is not Constitutional.
Wake up folks.
Read!
This is not true. Tests detect the *active* presence of THC in the bloodstream.
June 1, 2018 at 11:58 AM
BLOOD TESTS! Although high blood THC is a fairly good indicator of being under the influence, it is not infallible. Chronic users who develop tolerance to THC may in some cases drive safely with very high blood levels of THC. In one study, a subject with severe attention deficit disorder could not pass a driving test while straight, but performed well with a blood level of 71 ng/ml [Strohbeck-Kühner]. No similar phenomenon is known for alcohol.
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