So had my weekly drug class....
To recap, we all had "homework" to do and that was to find a couple facts about different drugs. I got Marijuana.
Me and the instructor had a conversation about the dangers of cannabis, I told him I didn't think there were any except the police. He brought up car wrecks and DUIs in legal states have raised significantly. I told him I was pretty sure they hadn't but would have to look it up. He asked me to bring my findings in as my homework.
Heres what I brought him and told the class...
Published in the American Journal of Public Health-
We found no significant association between recreational marijuana legalization in Washington and Colorado and subsequent changes in motor vehicle crash fatality rates in the first 3 years after recreational marijuana legalization,”
Insurance Institute for Highway Safety-
“The combined-state analysis shows that the first three states to legalize recreational marijuana have experienced more crashes,”
The study revealed more drivers involved in crashes are admitting to using marijuana.
*My note*
This is the key because its legal in the state so they can freely admit. As compared to states where its illigal ppl won’t openly admit this.
The Highway Loss Data Institute-
Vehicle incident claims went up 2.7 percent in the years since legal recreational marijuana sales began when compared with surrounding states.
*My note*
Why would they compare to surrounding states instead of the state in question? Maybe because the data wasn't what they wanted.
Car crashes leap in states with legalized marijuana!
as posted in
-washingtontimes
-Fox News
-CNBC
*My notes*
Head lines like these are meant to give knee-jerk reactions and is detrimental to cannabis legalization advocacy.
Mark A. R. Kleiman, a New York University professor says
Studies show that using marijuana and driving roughly doubles the risk of a crash, Kleiman said. By comparison, talking on a hands-free cellphone while driving — legal in all states — quadruples crash risk, he said. A blood alcohol content of .12, which is about the median amount in drunken driving cases, increases crash risk by about 15 times, he said.
I told him that I wanted to add two more things.
I briefly told him and the class about the endocannabinoid system. And how its naturally in the body.
And I finished it with
U.S. Patent No. 6,630,507
Granted in 2003 to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and covering the potential use of non-psychoactive cannabinoids to protect the brain from damage or degeneration caused by certain diseases
Everything went well he seemed very pleased with my input and I think it was exactly what someone had said before, he can't be out about his support for cannabis but was happy using me to talk about how it really is.