Marijuana-Impaired Driving

Researchers at the School of Public Health at the University of Colorado’s Anschutz Medical Campus are looking into the effects of cannabis on driving performance. This study, spanning two years, recruited more than 200 participants aged between 25 and 55 to understand the multifaceted...

Published in 2024 in "Accident Analysis & Prevention," the study led by Esther K. Choo, M.D., M.P.H., Professor of Emergency Medicine at OHSU delves into the comparative effects of cannabis and alcohol on driving safety, challenging longstanding DUI assumptions. Research...

It's no secret that consuming marijuana affects driving skills. However, accurately proving that a driver is impaired as a result of cannabis consumption has been a challenge for toxicologists and researchers for years. The main issue has been that, unlike alcohol,...

Buried deep in the folds of the much-anticipated and discussed ad nauseam 2,702 pages of the $1-trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill is a paragraph that refers to “establishing a clearinghouse to collect and distribute samples and strains of marijuana for scientific research that...