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Pot Fuels Surge in Drugged Driving Deaths - NBC News
Fed 15, 2014
As medical marijuana sales expanded into 20 states, legal weed was detected in the bodies of dead drivers three times more often during 2010 when compared to those who died behind the wheel in 1999, according to a new study from Columbia University published in the American Journal of Epidemiology.
The trend suggests that marijuana is playing an increased role in fatal crashes, said Dr. Guohua Li, a co-author and director of the Center for Injury Epidemiology and Prevention at Columbia University Medical Center. The researchers examined data from the federal Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS), spanning more than 23,000 drivers killed during that 11-year period.
Alcohol remains, by far, the most common mind-altering substance detected in dead drivers, observed in the blood of nearly 40 percent of those who perished across six states during 2010, the Columbia study notes. (That rate remained stable between 1999 and 2010.)
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.
The increased availability of marijuana and increased acceptance of marijuana use are fueling the higher rate of cannabinol found in dead drivers, Li told NBC News.
I've been saying this for years. We need to keep drunk and drugged drivers off the highways but the trend is for more of it!! The auto industry is funding this. Car crashes mean car sales
We tried that skippy. Didn't work. A drug is a drug is a drug. All drugs lead to bad things.
Weve already gone over this in your other thread. Weed will still show up on a piss test a month later. Just because you fail a piss test doesnt mean you smoked any that day. Are you really going to pretend like you dont know this now? Quit making these dishonest threads.
Retarded OP by a retarded poster. Alcohol is legal and its the cause of more deaths than weed. Ban alcohol.
Weve already gone over this in your other thread. Weed will still show up on a piss test a month later. Just because you fail a piss test doesnt mean you smoked any that day. Are you really going to pretend like you dont know this now? Quit making these dishonest threads.
If the pot is still in your system, you're still impaired. You're just like the boozers who say "i drive better when i'm drunk".
Retarded OP by a retarded poster. Alcohol is legal and its the cause of more deaths than weed. Ban alcohol.
Weve already gone over this in your other thread. Weed will still show up on a piss test a month later. Just because you fail a piss test doesnt mean you smoked any that day. Are you really going to pretend like you dont know this now? Quit making these dishonest threads.
If the pot is still in your system, you're still impaired. You're just like the boozers who say "i drive better when i'm drunk".
Retarded OP by a retarded poster. Alcohol is legal and its the cause of more deaths than weed. Ban alcohol.
Retarded OP by a retarded poster. Alcohol is legal and its the cause of more deaths than weed. Ban alcohol.
Weve already gone over this in your other thread. Weed will still show up on a piss test a month later. Just because you fail a piss test doesnt mean you smoked any that day. Are you really going to pretend like you dont know this now? Quit making these dishonest threads.
We tried that skippy. Didn't work. A drug is a drug is a drug. All drugs lead to bad things.
Retarded OP by a retarded poster. Alcohol is legal and its the cause of more deaths than weed. Ban alcohol.
Hey brainless affirmative action baby Why do you want to ban everything? Bans don't work. Better to hand out stiff penalties for dui. If boozers knew they would lose their license for a year or more and that dui is a felony, most would not do it. THINK
Retarded OP by a retarded poster. Alcohol is legal and its the cause of more deaths than weed. Ban alcohol.
Snip from the OP link:
Pot Fuels Surge in Drugged Driving Deaths - NBC News
If the current trends continue, non-alcohol drugs, such as marijuana, will overtake alcohol in traffic fatalities around 2020.
Retarded OP by a retarded poster. Alcohol is legal and its the cause of more deaths than weed. Ban alcohol.
Snip from the OP link:
Pot Fuels Surge in Drugged Driving Deaths - NBC News
If the current trends continue, non-alcohol drugs, such as marijuana, will overtake alcohol in traffic fatalities around 2020.
Yeah I read that. "If" a cow had nuts it would be a bull too.
Overall, though, drugged driving is closing the gap with drunk driving.
The rate of traffic deaths in which drivers tested positive for non-alcohol drugs climbed from 16.6 percent in 1999 to 28.3 percent in 2010, according to the Columbia study.
