Tag: Marijuana
Recreational marijuana and road safety: need to measure/enforce impairment at odds with scientific evidence for establishing threshold
Experts say legal weed calls for a ‘paradigm shift’ on how we think about impairment — and drugged driving
— Hartford Courant, February 15, 2019
Centerpiece of Gov. Baker’s sweeping road safety bill is handheld ban for Massachusetts
Baker’s bill targets distracted driving, seatbelt scofflaws
— Associated Press, January 22, 2019
Fines and penalties set for January 1, in Ontario, make for Canada’s ‘toughest penalties for repeat distracted driving convictions’
Ontario’s new distracted driving law to start in 2019
— CBC News, November 22, 2018
‘Drunk? Stoned? Driving? Don’t.’ — Massachusetts road safety agency’s latest PSA adds weed to warning
Do US road deaths rise on days that fall on unofficial cannabis holiday celebration?
Stoners Celebrating 4/20 May Be Responsible for Annual Bump in Traffic Deaths
— Gizmodo, February 12, 2018
HIGHway patrol — research towards marijuana breath test
Breathalyzers and brain caps: Researchers race to devise a roadside test for driving while high
— STAT, January 9, 2018
Massachusetts judiciary decides field sobriety tests for driver marijuana-use are not evidence in court
Mass. high court says sobriety tests aren’t definitive evidence for pot use
— The Boston Globe, September 19, 2017