I see you are big on ad hominem too. It's amusing to watch you try to demonize and delegitimize those who smoke pot.
Colorado has had it legal for quite some time and completely disproves your claims. Traffic violations, accidents, and fatalities are unchanged. Use in children is down. Use of cocaine/heroin is down. etc.
But have fun waving your hands at NIDA studies prior to 2015. Fact is that NIDA would turn down any hypothesis that did not have a negative prediction from 1972-2015.
Let's see who is telling the truth and who is not? .......
Insurance Group Says Data Suggests Cannabis is Increasing Accident Rates
March 14, 2019 / By
Jim Sams
Preliminary research indicates that the legalization of recreational marijuana in 10 states has increased accident rates, the Insurance Information Institute said Wednesday.
The group cited an October 2018 study by the Highway Loss Data Institute that shows collision claim frequency was 12.5% higher in Colorado and 9.7% higher in Washington than in nearby states that did not legalize recreational use of marijuana. Oregon also had a 1% greater rate of collision claims than neighboring states.
“When a state legalizes marijuana, more people use the drug,” states the institute’s
white paper, released Wednesday. “More people using marijuana is associated with more people driving with THC in their systems. The standard personal auto policy does not address driving under the influence of any drug, including alcohol and marijuana. However, auto insurance rates may be affected by the spread of marijuana legalization, particularly if such legalization is associated with an increase in impaired driving and related accidents.”
Much of the institute’s is based on a study by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety and the Highway Loss Data Institute released last fall. HLDI analysts estimated that the frequency of collision claims per insured vehicle year rose a combined 6 percent following the start of retail sales of recreational marijuana in Colorado, Nevada, Oregon and Washington, compared with the control states of Idaho, Montana, Utah and Wyoming. The combined-state analysis is based on collision loss data from January 2012 through October 2017.
A separate IIHS study examined police-reported crashes before and after retail sales began in Colorado, Oregon and Washington from 2012 to 2016. IIHS estimates that the three states combined saw a 5.2 percent increase in the rate of crashes per million vehicle registrations, compared with neighboring states that didn’t legalize marijuana sales.
Another study showed an increase in the number of drivers involved in fatal accidents who tested positive for marijuana use.
The National Bureau of Economic Research published in March 2018 found that the share of fatal accidents in which at least one driver tested positive for marijuana increased in Colorado and Washington after marijuana was legalized in both states in 2014. In Colorado the fraction of positive tests increased by 9% from 2013 to 2016; in Washington the increase was 28% during that period.
https://www.claimsjournal.com/news/national/2019/03/14/289753.htm
Research Ties Marijuana Legalization to Car Accidents, Injuries
Researchers found that marijuana-related hospitalizations increased in Colorado after the state legalized recreational pot.
By
Alexa Lardieri, Staff Writer May 15, 2019
THE LEGALIZATION OF recreational marijuana is associated with a rise of injuries, substance abuse and car accidents, according to new research.
A study published Wednesday in the journal BMJ Open found that Colorado hospital admissions for cannabis abuse increased after the drug was legalized in the state.
Researchers found that car accidents in Colorado increased 10% after legalization, and increases in alcohol abuse and overdoses that resulted in injury or death increased by 5%.
https://www.usnews.com/news/health-...ties-legalizing-pot-to-car-accidents-injuries
Exclusive: Traffic fatalities linked to marijuana are up sharply in Colorado. Is legalization to blame?
- David Migoya
- PUBLISHED: August 25, 2017 at 10:01 am | UPDATED: December 28, 2018 at 12:23 pm
Barbara Deckert at the site of her fiancé's death on Aug. 10, 2017 in Brighton. Ron Edwards was killed by a driver who ran a red light and hit him on his motorcycle.
The number of drivers involved in fatal crashes in Colorado who tested positive for marijuana has risen sharply each year since 2013, more than doubling in that time, federal and state data show. A Denver Post analysis of the data and coroner reports provides the most comprehensive look yet into whether roads in the state have become more dangerous since the drug’s legalization.
Increasingly potent levels of marijuana were found in positive-testing drivers who died in crashes in Front Range counties, according to coroner data since 2013 compiled by The Denver Post. Nearly a dozen in 2016 had levels five times the amount allowed by law, and one was at 22 times the limit. Levels were not as elevated in earlier years.
Last year, all of the drivers who survived and tested positive for marijuana use had the drug at levels that indicated use within a few hours of being tested, according to the Colorado Department of Transportation, which compiles information for the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s Fatality Analysis Reporting System.
The trends coincide with the legalization of recreational marijuana in Colorado that began with adult use in late 2012, followed by sales in 2014.
Police, victims’ families and safety advocates say the numbers of drivers testing positive for marijuana use — which have grown at a quicker rate than the increase in pot usage in Colorado since 2013 — are rising too quickly to ignore and highlight the potential dangers of mixing pot with driving.
“We went from zero to 100, and we’ve been chasing it ever since,” Greenwood Village Police Chief John Jackson said of the state’s implementation of legalized marijuana. “Nobody understands it and people are dying. That’s a huge public safety problem.”
The 2013-16 period saw a 40 percent increase in the number of all drivers involved in fatal crashes in Colorado, from 627 to 880, according to the NHTSA data. Those who tested positive for alcohol in fatal crashes from 2013 to 2015 — figures for 2016 were not available — grew 17 percent, from 129 to 151.
By contrast, the number of drivers who tested positive for marijuana use jumped 145 percent — from 47 in 2013 to 115 in 2016. During that time, the prevalence of testing drivers for marijuana use did not change appreciably, federal fatal-crash data show.
And the numbers probably are even higher.
https://www.___GET_REAL_URL___/s/ww...25/colorado-marijuana-traffic-fatalities/amp/
