Cannabis and driving? Studies reveal big risks(news.cuanschutz.edu) |
Cannabis and driving? Studies reveal big risks(news.cuanschutz.edu) |
The article doesn't quantify accident risk, from what I can see.
The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP), however, actually has quantified the relative change in accident risk. [1]
The table in the linked document (N/A = not available):
Crash Risk Culpability
Alcohol (BAC = 0.02) 1.03–1.19 1.36
Alcohol (BAC = 0.05) 1.38–1.75 2.19
Alcohol (BAC = 0.08) 2.69–2.92 3.63
Cannabis 1.11–1.42 1.20–1.42
Antidepressants 1.35–1.40 N/A
Antihistamines 1.12 N/A
Benzodiazepines and Z-hypnotics 1.17–2.30 1.41
Opiates 1.68–2.29 1.47
If the system was really fair, it would perform a field sobriety test to prove impairment. Recognising that cannabis use only increases crash risk by the same amount as a legal BAC would be a good start.
[1] https://www1.racgp.org.au/getattachment/ef4cc327-723b-42c9-b...
> “We didn’t tell people what to use because there’s a really big continuum of how people use and how they respond to that dosage,” Brooks-Russell said, explaining that they wanted these studies to reflect how people use cannabis outside of the lab.
Actually a really smart process decision - in past studies I’ve seen they always used a prescribed dose but having the participants choose makes a lot of sense
- Stopping at green lights
- Dropping the doob between the seats
- The Ozium can rolling out of reach
- Driving thru multiple fast food venues in one trip
I very often went on a baked circuit there, not as a “let’s get a faster lap time”, but more of a “clear my mind” type of ride. For things like this, I definitely prefer to be baked simply because of how it weirdly helped me disconnect from everything else going on in my life, focusing only on the about 15-20km of quiet, nature-adjacent, 95% empty, smooth bike road.
When I took the same scooter out to ride within traffic (akin to a motorbike, following all traffic rules aside from “vehicle registration” and “a license” because these weren’t and AFAIK still aren’t feasible for these), it was a whole different story. What riding with cannabis showed me was that you need to have trust in both yourself and your surroundings. But riding in traffic, sharing the road with people that aren’t even used to seeing motorbikes on the road that often (let alone electric scooters sharing the road with cars), being baked definitely made things more stressful than it would have needed to be.
So still probably ideal for people to aim to be perfectly sober and focused, but... we might end up "ok" in a lot of cases even if that ideal isn't achieved
A study for real world risks based on a videogame, of all things? Its impossible to directly map the experience of being behind the wheel in real life to a game, and the article doesn't even mention whether it's an actual simulation (like beam.NG), game-like (as in Assetto Corsa), or plain arcade fantasy (GTA, Need for Speed) OBVIOUSLY people are gonna play games in a more fun/different way under the influence They even admit that inhaled usage showed little to no consistency in driving difference Bias disclaimer: I stopped consumption some time back
Seems pretty clearly a simulator, they use that word several times.
I'm prepared to be wrong though. I searched the internet for six whole minutes and found no evidence of even a single person, let alone the group of people you say exist.