Cannabis use can “significantly” impair drivers for up to four hours after use, a new study revealed, stressing the urgency for a better understanding of the effects its use increases aroudn the country.
“Expanding cannabis medicalization and legalization increases the urgency to understand the factors associated with acute driving impairment,” researchers wrote.
The randomized clinical trial of 191 regular cannabis users in the study by University of California, San Diego, the FDA and the Research Advisory Panel of California published last week in the JAMA Psychiatry journal determined that THC consumption “comprised key driving simulator variables, assessed prior to smoking and at multiple time points post-smoking.”
Researchers also measured additional indicators including self-perceptions of driving impairment and cannabis use history.
Gov. Charlie Baker, in his final year in office, is pushing lawmakers to act on legislation filed by his office to toughen up enforcement and penalties for Massachusetts drivers who get behind the wheel when they’re stoned.
His bill is named for State Police Trooper Thomas Clardy, who was killed while conducting a traffic stop on the Mass Pike in Charlton in 2016 when a man with THC in his system crashed his car into Clardy’s cruiser.
A previous version of the bill stalled during the last session.
“Unfortunately, our road safety laws have not caught up to the current public safety landscape with respect to impaired…
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Cannabis use can “significantly” impair drivers for up to four hours after use, a new study revealed, stressing the urgency for a better understanding of the effects its use increases aroudn the country.
“Expanding cannabis medicalization and legalization increases the urgency to understand the factors associated with acute driving impairment,” researchers wrote.
The randomized clinical trial of 191 regular cannabis users in the study by University of California, San Diego, the FDA and the Research Advisory Panel of California published last week in the JAMA Psychiatry journal determined that THC consumption “comprised key driving simulator variables, assessed prior to smoking and at multiple time points post-smoking.”
Researchers also measured additional indicators including self-perceptions of driving impairment and cannabis use history.
Gov. Charlie Baker, in his final year in office, is pushing lawmakers to act on legislation filed by his office to toughen up enforcement and penalties for Massachusetts drivers who get behind the wheel when they’re stoned.
His bill is named for State Police Trooper Thomas Clardy, who was killed while conducting a traffic stop on the Mass Pike in Charlton in 2016 when a man with THC in his system crashed his car into Clardy’s cruiser.
A previous version of the bill stalled during the last session.
“Unfortunately, our road safety laws have not caught up to the current public safety landscape with respect to impaired…
