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Determining Who's 'Too High To Drive' Poses Challenge For Police Nationwide
Wednesday, October 30, 2024 - 2:10pm | 726In the wake of rising drug-related traffic fatalities, police departments across the U.S. find themselves grappling with outdated methods to determine cannabis impairment in drivers. As MLive reported, with cannabis legalization continuing to grow nationwide, law enforcement is left without a...
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This Portable Brainwave Scanner Shows What Cannabis Does To Your Brain Or If You Are Impaired
Monday, July 15, 2024 - 4:54pm | 622As Europe becomes more open toward embracing legal cannabis, one Canadian company is getting prepared for some of the challenges that may arise with this progress. A neurotechnology firm Zentrela is working on harnessing brainwave research for delivering data-driven insights into cannabis effects...
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Detection Of Cannabis In Bodily Fluids Not Correlated With Driving Impairment, New Review Shows
Sunday, April 7, 2024 - 11:16am | 568This article was originally published by the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML) and appears here with permission. Neither the detection of THC nor its metabolites in blood, breath, urine, or saliva is predictive of behavioral impairment, according to a literature...
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Yup, You Just Smoked Weed! New Testing Method Confirms Recent Cannabis Use With 96% Accuracy, Federally-Funded Study
Friday, February 2, 2024 - 12:22pm | 1050As marijuana becomes mainstream, it is important to find a way to determine a person's recent consumption. This is something that scientists have been trying to figure out for a while now, but just recently may have come up with an appropriate and accurate methodology. The new techniques have been...
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Caught Driving With THC In Your System? Here's A Company You'll Want To Know About
Friday, November 10, 2023 - 12:23pm | 701If you're a cannabis consumer and among the 83% of adults who drive regularly or the 64% who drive every day, then you'll want to listen up. Whether you're driving while high, live in one of the 24 states with legal recreational cannabis or you're a medical...
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Light Up A Joint And Get Behind The Wheel: Help California Police Study Impairment And Driving
Monday, July 10, 2023 - 9:29am | 854The California Department of Motor Vehicles wants to know more about what goes on when people drive while stoned. To that end, it is conducting a study to be overseen by researchers at UC San Diego's Center for Medical Cannabis Research, writes CBS...
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Baltimore Cops, Curious But Not Judgmental, Join Consumers To Share Info On Weed And Driving
Sunday, May 21, 2023 - 10:58am | 503With less than two months until cannabis becomes widely available in Maryland, Baltimore cops are getting up to speed in terms of spotting impairment behind the wheel. To that end, the Baltimore County Police Department is training officers to figure out how to ascertain if someone is...
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Aah, Can You Explain That Again? New Jersey Workplace Cannabis Guidelines Leave Employers Baffled
Tuesday, September 27, 2022 - 11:53am | 479New Jersey’s workplace guidelines released by the Cannabis Regulatory Commission (CRC) have employers dazed and confused over what they can and cannot do when a worker is high on the job. Cannabis law experts and employment attorneys called the rules and their rollout vague and baffling...