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Six Ways Science Says Marijuana May Hurt Your Health [1] 06/27/2015 |
Danger [2], science [3], car crashes 2 [4], Brain [5], addiction [6], heart [7], car crashes [8] |
Driver strikes six pedestrians, killing one in Vallejo [9] 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 [8], pedestrians [10], car crashes 2 [4] |
Nearly 70 per cent of cannabis users report driving under influence: research [11] 06/09/2015 |
He said users' attitudes conflicted with established scientific evidence, showing cannabis increased the risk of motor vehicle crashes by up to 300 per cent. Australia [12], car crashes 2 [4], car crashes [8] |
Driver admitted smoking pot before deadly Hwy. 281 crash [13] 04/30/2015 |
car crashes 2 [4], impaired [14], TX [15] |
Teens choose to drive with high drivers more than drunk drivers [16] 04/29/2015 |
Teens [17], impaired [14], car crashes 2 [4] |
Autopsy: Ulele server accidentally drowned in Mango Lake [18] 04/04/2015 |
The autopsy showed Foster had a .098 milligrams-per-liter level of THC, or tetrahydrocannabinol, the intoxicating ingredient of marijuana. Pearson said that is a significant level.
Death [19], car crashes 2 [4], alcohol [20], Florida [21], tampa [22] |
Addressing Driver Impairment Difficult [23] 03/26/2015 |
Colorado-0 [24], car crashes 2 [4], Impairment [25] |
Police: Teen driver who struck, killed Broomfield HS student Chad Britton was high at time of accident [26] 03/17/2015 |
A teen accused of killing 16-year-old Broomfield High School student Chad Britton in a November car accident near the school was driving under the influence of marijuana, according to police. Teen [27], car crashes 2 [4], car crashes [8], Fatalities [28] |
Drugged driving poses greater highway danger [29] 03/01/2015 |
car crashes 2 [4], Fatalities [28], PA [30], car crashes [8], highways [31] |
Pot and pills the new choice for intoxicated drivers [32] 02/26/2015 |
car crashes 2 [4], impaired [14], Fatalities [28], pills [33], car crashes [8] |
We Save Lives- Drugged Driving [34] 02/21/2015 |
car crashes 2 [4], car crashes [8] |
August 2014- Legalization of MJ Impact Colorado [35] 08/13/2014 |
Colorado-0 [24], youth [36], car crashes 2 [4], Death [19], exposure [37], alcohol [20] |
2014- Colorado Impact Study- Driving Impaired Section [38] 08/01/2014 |
Overall, traffic fatalities in Colorado decreased 14.8 percent, from 2007 to 2012. During the same five years in Colorado, traffic fatalities involving operators testing positive for marijuana increased 100 percent. In 2007, Colorado traffic fatalities involving operators testing positive for marijuana represented 7.04 percent of the total traffic fatalities. By 2012, that number more than doubled to 16.53 percent. car crashes 2 [4], impaired [14], Colorado-0 [24] |
Six Ways Science Says Marijuana May Hurt Your Health [39] 06/29/2014 |
addiction [6], heart [7], car crashes 2 [4], Impairment [25], Death [19], Brain [5] |
NIDA review summarizes research on marijuana’s negative health effects [40] 06/05/2014 |
The authors review literature showing that marijuana impairs driving, increasing the risk of being involved in a car accident and that these risks are further enhanced when combining marijuana with alcohol. health [41], car crashes 2 [4], Impairment [25], Research [42] |
Marijuana use involved in more fatal accidents in Colorado [43] 05/15/2014 |
They reported that Colorado underwent a significant increase in the proportion of drivers in a fatal motor vehicle crash who were marijuana-positive after the commercialization of medical marijuana in the middle of 2009. The increase in Colorado was significantly greater compared to the 34 non-medical marijuana states from mid-2009 to 2011. Colorado-0 [24], impaired [14], car crashes 2 [4], Fatalities [28] |
Pot-Booze Combo More Dangerous for Teen Drivers Than Alcohol Alone [44] 04/28/2014 |
Teens who drank and smoked pot at the same time were 90 percent more likely to get a ticket and 50 percent more likely to be in a wreck. car crashes 2 [4], alcohol [20], pot [45] |
Metro: Marijuana impairment rising among drivers [46] 04/17/2014 |
During the last three years, Metro's forensics lab screened 4,500 blood samples for marijuana with the bulk of those being impaired drivers. car crashes 2 [4], impaired [14], Las Vegas [47] |
Don't Go to Pot [48] 04/01/2014 |
Marijuana does possess certain medicinal properties. So does opium. But we don’t allow unscrupulous quacks to write raw opium prescriptions for anyone willing to pay $65. And if we did, would anybody be surprised that the vast majority of opium buyers were not recovering from surgery—and that many of them shared or resold some of their opium to underage users? Medical [49], car crashes 2 [4], impaired [14], IQ [50] |
Pot-related fatalities up [51] 03/11/2014 |
[51]
Fatalities [28], car crashes 2 [4], car crashes [8], Colorado [52] |
Hillsborough DUI - Marijuana Impairment [53] 02/24/2014 |
car crashes 2 [4], Impairment [25], DUI [54] |
Pot Fuels Surge in Drugged Driving Deaths [55] 02/15/2014 |
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. car crashes 2 [4], impaired [14], alcohol [20], Colorado-0 [24] |
Pot Fuels Surge in Drugged Driving Deaths [56] 02/15/2014 |
car crashes 2 [4], car crashes [8], Colorado [52] |
Six - State Study Finds Drugs Other Than Alcohol Increasingly Detected in Fatally Injured Drivers; Cannabinoids Most Prevalent Other Drug Detected [57] 02/10/2014 |
alcohol [20], car crashes 2 [4], traffic [58], Fatalities [28] |
Trends in Alcohol and Other Drugs Detected in Fatally Injured Drivers in the United States, 1999–2010 [59] 01/28/2014 |
Studies [60], car crashes 2 [4], national [61], Epidemiology [62] |
Marijuana and Drugged Driving [63] 06/11/2013 |
Institute for Behavioral and Health- car crashes 2 [4], impaired [14], IBH [64], Research [42], Studies [60], car crashes [8] |
Impact in Colorado of legalizing marijuana- April 2013 (Data is before recreational legalization.) [65] 04/01/2013 |
Colorado-0 [24], car crashes 2 [4], youth [36], emergency room [66] |
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[5] http://rethinkpot.org/tags/brain
[6] http://rethinkpot.org/tags/addiction
[7] http://rethinkpot.org/tags/heart
[8] http://rethinkpot.org/tags/car%2A
[9] http://rethinkpot.org/driver-strikes-six-pedestrians-killing-one-vallejo
[10] http://rethinkpot.org/tags/pedestrians
[11] http://rethinkpot.org/nearly-70-cent-cannabis-users-report-driving-under-influence-research
[12] http://rethinkpot.org/tags/australia
[13] http://rethinkpot.org/driver-admitted-smoking-pot-deadly-hwy-281-crash
[14] http://rethinkpot.org/tags/impaired
[15] http://rethinkpot.org/tags/tx
[16] http://rethinkpot.org/teens-choose-drive-high-drivers-more-drunk-drivers
[17] http://rethinkpot.org/tags/teens
[18] http://rethinkpot.org/autopsy-ulele-server-accidentally-drowned-mango-lake
[19] http://rethinkpot.org/tags/death
[20] http://rethinkpot.org/tags/alcohol
[21] http://rethinkpot.org/tags/florida
[22] http://rethinkpot.org/tags/tampa
[23] http://rethinkpot.org/addressing-driver-impairment-difficult
[24] http://rethinkpot.org/tags/colorado-0
[25] http://rethinkpot.org/tags/impairment
[26] http://rethinkpot.org/police-teen-driver-who-struck-killed-broomfield-hs-student-chad-britton-was-high-time-accident
[27] http://rethinkpot.org/tags/teen
[28] http://rethinkpot.org/tags/fatalities
[29] http://rethinkpot.org/drugged-driving-poses-greater-highway-danger
[30] http://rethinkpot.org/tags/pa
[31] http://rethinkpot.org/tags/highways
[32] http://rethinkpot.org/pot-and-pills-new-choice-intoxicated-drivers
[33] http://rethinkpot.org/tags/pills
[34] http://rethinkpot.org/we-save-lives-drugged-driving
[35] http://rethinkpot.org/august-2014-legalization-mj-impact-colorado
[36] http://rethinkpot.org/tags/youth
[37] http://rethinkpot.org/tags/exposure
[38] http://rethinkpot.org/2014-colorado-impact-study-driving-impaired-section
[39] http://rethinkpot.org/six-ways-science-says-marijuana-may-hurt-your-health
[40] http://rethinkpot.org/nida-review-summarizes-research-marijuana%E2%80%99s-negative-health-effects
[41] http://rethinkpot.org/tags/health
[42] http://rethinkpot.org/tags/research
[43] http://rethinkpot.org/marijuana-use-involved-more-fatal-accidents-colorado
[44] http://rethinkpot.org/pot-booze-combo-more-dangerous-teen-drivers-alcohol-alone
[45] http://rethinkpot.org/tags/pot
[46] http://rethinkpot.org/metro-marijuana-impairment-rising-among-drivers
[47] http://rethinkpot.org/tags/las-vegas
[48] http://rethinkpot.org/dont-go-pot
[49] http://rethinkpot.org/tags/medical-0
[50] http://rethinkpot.org/tags/iq
[51] http://rethinkpot.org/pot-related-fatalities-0
[52] http://rethinkpot.org/tags/colorado%2A
[53] http://rethinkpot.org/hillsborough-dui-marijuana-impairment
[54] http://rethinkpot.org/tags/dui
[55] http://rethinkpot.org/pot-fuels-surge-drugged-driving-deaths
[56] http://rethinkpot.org/pot-fuels-surge-drugged-driving-deaths-0
[57] http://rethinkpot.org/six-state-study-finds-drugs-other-alcohol-increasingly-detected-fatally-injured-drivers-cannabinoids
[58] http://rethinkpot.org/tags/traffic
[59] http://rethinkpot.org/trends-alcohol-and-other-drugs-detected-fatally-injured-drivers-united-states-1999%E2%80%932010
[60] http://rethinkpot.org/tags/study
[61] http://rethinkpot.org/tags/national
[62] http://rethinkpot.org/tags/epidemiology
[63] http://rethinkpot.org/marijuana-and-drugged-driving
[64] http://rethinkpot.org/tags/ibh
[65] http://rethinkpot.org/impact-colorado-legalizing-marijuana-april-2013-data-recreational-legalization
[66] http://rethinkpot.org/tags/emergency-room