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Study: Fatal Car Crashes Involving Marijuana Have Tripled « CBS Seattle
Feb 4, 2014
According to a recent study, fatal car crashes involving pot use have tripled in the U.S.
Currently, one of nine drivers involved in fatal crashes would test positive for marijuana, Dr. Guohua Li, director of the Center for Injury Epidemiology and Prevention at Columbia, and co-author of the study told HealthDay News.
Researchers from Columbia Universitys Mailman School of Public Health gathered data from six states California, Hawaii, Illinois, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and West Virginia that perform toxicology tests on drivers involved in fatal car accidents. This data included over 23,500 drivers that died within one hour of a crash between 1999 and 2010.
Li reported in the study that alcohol contributed to about 40 percent of traffic fatalities throughout the decade.
The researchers found that drugs played an increasing role in fatal traffic accidents. Drugged driving accounted for more than 28 percent of traffic deaths in 2010, which is 16 percent more than it was in 1999.
The researchers also found that marijuana was the main drug involved in the increase. It contributed to 12 percent of fatal crashes, compared to only 4 percent in 1999.
If a driver is under the influence of alcohol, their risk of a fatal crash is 13 times higher than the risk of the driver who is not under the influence of alcohol, Li said. But if the driver is under the influence of both alcohol and marijuana, their risk increased to 24 times that of a sober person.
And people have been rolling their eyes at everything you say for years.I've been saying for years that the legal pot movement is funded by the auto industry.
And people have been rolling their eyes at everything you say for years.
I didn't evade the issue, I pointed out you were full of shit, you are just too much of a simpleton to have caught the message.The board notes you evaded the issue and made a personal attack. Thanks for admitting i'm right.
I didn't evade the issue, I pointed out you were full of shit, you are just too much of a simpleton to have caught the message.The board notes you evaded the issue and made a personal attack. Thanks for admitting i'm right.
I've been saying for years that the legal pot movement is funded by the auto industry. They have lost a bundle because of the war on drunk drivers and would love to see stoned drivers everywhere. Car crashes mean car sales.
Study: Fatal Car Crashes Involving Marijuana Have Tripled « CBS Seattle
Feb 4, 2014
– According to a recent study, fatal car crashes involving pot use have tripled in the U.S.
“Currently, one of nine drivers involved in fatal crashes would test positive for marijuana,” Dr. Guohua Li, director of the Center for Injury Epidemiology and Prevention at Columbia, and co-author of the study told HealthDay News.
Researchers from Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health gathered data from six states – California, Hawaii, Illinois, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and West Virginia – that perform toxicology tests on drivers involved in fatal car accidents. This data included over 23,500 drivers that died within one hour of a crash between 1999 and 2010.
Li reported in the study that alcohol contributed to about 40 percent of traffic fatalities throughout the decade.
The researchers found that drugs played an increasing role in fatal traffic accidents. Drugged driving accounted for more than 28 percent of traffic deaths in 2010, which is 16 percent more than it was in 1999.
The researchers also found that marijuana was the main drug involved in the increase. It contributed to 12 percent of fatal crashes, compared to only 4 percent in 1999.
“If a driver is under the influence of alcohol, their risk of a fatal crash is 13 times higher than the risk of the driver who is not under the influence of alcohol,” Li said. “But if the driver is under the influence of both alcohol and marijuana, their risk increased to 24 times that of a sober person.”
We used to roll joints while driving, using a knee to steer the car.
Ahhh da good ol' days.
I've been saying for years that the legal pot movement is funded by the auto industry. They have lost a bundle because of the war on drunk drivers and would love to see stoned drivers everywhere. Car crashes mean car sales.
Study: Fatal Car Crashes Involving Marijuana Have Tripled « CBS Seattle
Feb 4, 2014
According to a recent study, fatal car crashes involving pot use have tripled in the U.S.
Currently, one of nine drivers involved in fatal crashes would test positive for marijuana, Dr. Guohua Li, director of the Center for Injury Epidemiology and Prevention at Columbia, and co-author of the study told HealthDay News.
Researchers from Columbia Universitys Mailman School of Public Health gathered data from six states California, Hawaii, Illinois, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and West Virginia that perform toxicology tests on drivers involved in fatal car accidents. This data included over 23,500 drivers that died within one hour of a crash between 1999 and 2010.
Li reported in the study that alcohol contributed to about 40 percent of traffic fatalities throughout the decade.
The researchers found that drugs played an increasing role in fatal traffic accidents. Drugged driving accounted for more than 28 percent of traffic deaths in 2010, which is 16 percent more than it was in 1999.
The researchers also found that marijuana was the main drug involved in the increase. It contributed to 12 percent of fatal crashes, compared to only 4 percent in 1999.
If a driver is under the influence of alcohol, their risk of a fatal crash is 13 times higher than the risk of the driver who is not under the influence of alcohol, Li said. But if the driver is under the influence of both alcohol and marijuana, their risk increased to 24 times that of a sober person.
We used to roll joints while driving, using a knee to steer the car.
Ahhh da good ol' days.
in those good old days the joints you were smoking were at least 5 times weaker than they are now.
Plus traffic was less intense as well.
We used to roll joints while driving, using a knee to steer the car.
Ahhh da good ol' days.
in those good old days the joints you were smoking were at least 5 times weaker than they are now.
Plus traffic was less intense as well.
We occasionally scored some super-weed. And this was the '70s, not the pre-super highway era. Geez I'm not that old.
I don't remember.in those good old days the joints you were smoking were at least 5 times weaker than they are now.
Plus traffic was less intense as well.
We occasionally scored some super-weed. And this was the '70s, not the pre-super highway era. Geez I'm not that old.
I figured it was around that time
still weed was much weaker than and less pure than it is now.
plus it is not the availability of highways but the amount of the cars on them what counts.
you really think the intensity of traffic was the same?
I don't remember.We occasionally scored some super-weed. And this was the '70s, not the pre-super highway era. Geez I'm not that old.
I figured it was around that time
still weed was much weaker than and less pure than it is now.
plus it is not the availability of highways but the amount of the cars on them what counts.
you really think the intensity of traffic was the same?
What was the question?
I quoted the part where he said the auto industry is behind the legal pot movement, which was nowhere in the article.I didn't evade the issue, I pointed out you were full of shit, you are just too much of a simpleton to have caught the message.The board notes you evaded the issue and made a personal attack. Thanks for admitting i'm right.
Actually his link provides the Data, it is not conjecture nor personal opinion. The troll here is you.
You guys are missing one important quote here... "1 in 9 drivers involved in a fatal crash will test positive for marijuana".
If I was in a fatal car crash on my way home from work today, I too would test positive for marijuana, but I haven't smoked any today. Weed stays in your system for a month. Testing positive for marijuana doesn't mean you were high at the time.
That is a bogus article and it shouldn't be taken seriously. The writer is clearly incompetent.
If I was in a fatal car crash on my way home from work today, I too would test positive for marijuana, but I haven't smoked any today. Weed stays in your system for a month. Testing positive for marijuana doesn't mean you were high at the time.
