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Study Claims Pot Related Traffic Deaths Up 300% In Last Decade
Posted on 2/25/14 at 11:50 am
Posted on 2/25/14 at 11:50 am
What say the OT?
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Fatal Crashes involving marijuana use tripled during the previous decade, according to researchers from Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health. The pot related accidents have helped fuel the overall increase in drugged-driving traffic deaths.
As widespread acceptance of marijuana becomes the norm in the U.S., demonstrated by recent legalization laws in Colorado and Washington, many experts fear a continuing upward spiral of marijuana related traffic injuries and deaths. "Currently, one of nine drivers involved in fatal crashes would test positive for marijuana," said co-author Dr. Guohua Li, director of the Center for Injury Epidemiology and Prevention at Columbia. "If this trend continues, in five or six years non-alcohol drugs will overtake alcohol to become the most common substance involved in deaths related to impaired driving."
The study draws its conclusions from statistics on more than 23,500 drivers who died within one hour of a crash between 1999 and 2010. The toxicology tests were performed on victims from six states including: California, Hawaii, Illinois, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and West Virginia. While alcohol related traffic fatalities remained steady at 40% throughout the decade, drug related deaths soared from 16% in 1999 to a whopping 28% in 2010.
Significantly, the study cites marijuana use as the leading culprit for the swelling number of drug related traffic deaths, contributing to 12 percent of 2010 crashes. This represents a 300% increase compared with four percent in 1999.
Posted on 2/25/14 at 11:52 am to Darth_Vader
alchohol/tobacco lobby probably behind this.
Posted on 2/25/14 at 11:52 am to Darth_Vader
I don't think anyone on this board has ever defended driving high or drunk, so what's your point?
Posted on 2/25/14 at 11:53 am to JPLIII
so they now have a test that can prove you are high at the time of driving? that's a new one.
Posted on 2/25/14 at 11:53 am to Darth_Vader
I don't know if I would trust anything from the
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Mailman School of Public Health
Posted on 2/25/14 at 11:54 am to TH03
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I don't think anyone on this board has ever defended driving high or drunk, so what's your point?
I really do not have a point other than I saw the story linked on Drudge an thought it would be something the OT would find interesting to discuss.
Posted on 2/25/14 at 11:54 am to Darth_Vader
It's more likely that they are testing for it more and most people can't drive sober.
Posted on 2/25/14 at 11:54 am to lsuhunt555
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You came back?
Seems I did. But then again I never really "quit".
Posted on 2/25/14 at 11:55 am to Darth_Vader
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I don't think anyone on this board has ever defended driving high or drunk, so what's your point?
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I really do not have a point other than I saw the story linked on Drudge an thought it would be something the OT would find interesting to discuss.
BOOM m'fer!!!
Posted on 2/25/14 at 11:56 am to Darth_Vader
Because people that are for smoking pot are for driving high?
Posted on 2/25/14 at 11:56 am to Darth_Vader
you obviously have an agenda with the thread so why don't you just spill it already and start the discussion?
Posted on 2/25/14 at 11:57 am to Darth_Vader
quote:You're a shitty poster.
What say the OT?
Posted on 2/25/14 at 11:57 am to MrSmith
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Because people that are for smoking pot are for driving high?
Never said that either. For the record, I'm in favor of legalization for pot for anyone 21 and up. Like I said, I know pot is a popular subject on the OT and when I saw this story I thought it would generate some interesting discussion. That's really it. I'm not trying to push an agenda nor do I have an angle on this.
Posted on 2/25/14 at 11:58 am to Darth_Vader
i'll have to go through all your links, but I can pretty much guarantee this is utter bullshite.
Posted on 2/25/14 at 11:58 am to Darth_Vader
i would be curious to see the levels of intoxication because, as you know, pot stays in your system for a few weeks.
Posted on 2/25/14 at 11:58 am to Darth_Vader
Should be 18 like everything else
Posted on 2/25/14 at 11:59 am to Darth_Vader
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In an endnote to the study, the researchers pointed to several limitations with the research. One is that marijuana can be detected in the blood up to one week after use. And, therefore, the researchers said, "the prevalence of nonalcohol drugs reported in this study should be interpreted as an indicator of drug use, not necessarily a measurement of drug impairment."
So they can't even be sure they were high at the time. I'm sure that number is wholly based in reality.
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