Variability of baseline vehicle control among sober young adult cannabis users: A simulator-based exploratory study.

Conclusions: Young adult drivers who use cannabis in our study drove slower and produced significantly less frequent steering and accelerator pedal inputs than drivers who did not use cannabis. This suggests that lasting effects of cannabis use persist and may lead to detrimental driving behaviors even after intoxication has subsided. These findings have implications for legislation in support of legalizing cannabis because sober cannabis-using drivers may still be a public health concern. Further study is needed to evaluate whether these differences persist even with longer term abstinence and whether differences are found in other age demographics. PMID: 31674851 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31674851?dopt=Abstract

Source: Traffic Injury Prevention - October 31, 2019 Category: Accident Prevention Authors: Brown T, Banz B, Li K, Camenga D, Vaca F, Gaffney G, Milavetz G Tags: Traffic Inj Prev Source Type: research