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Choose your favorite lie

The House of Representatives passed the MORE Act December 4, 2020.  Properly characterized as a marijuana legalization act by USA Today, Bloomberg, Yahoo and many others, CNN called it a marijuana decriminalization act in deference to its sponsors Kamala Harris and Jerry Nadler.  NBC went further, calling it a cannabis decriminalization act, since the act requires us to call marijuana by its currently politically correct name, cannabis.

Republican sponsor Matt Graetz of Florida commented, ““The … READ MORE

Not finding something doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist

A favorite citation used by the marijuana lobby to promote the idea that marijuana doesn’t impair driving is one published in 2015 by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (www.nhtsa.gov/behavioral-research/drug-and-alcohol-crash-risk-study).  And when the study is cited, the results are usually badly misquoted. 

 

Los Angeles Times: “Good news (?): marijuana doesn’t increase the likelihood of car crashes.”

USA Today: “New study shows no link between marijuana use and car accidents.”

Reason: “Landmark study finds marijuana … READ MORE

Colorado myopia

Colorado politician Representative Ed Perlmutter introduced H.R. 1595 to the US House of Representatives on March 7, 2019. 

“The purpose of this Act is to increase public safety by expanding financial services to cannabis-related legitimate businesses and service providers and reducing the amount of cash at such businesses.”

Cloaking his aim of expanding marijuana commercialization as a “public safety” issue demonstrates the myopia infecting so many politicians today.  Promoting a popular drug may be good … READ MORE

Twelve Drugged-Driving Lessons from Colorado

What has marijuana legalization done to Driving Under the Influence (DUI) cases in Colorado? Important answers are now emerging.  July 2018, the  Division of Criminal Justice (DCJ) released a 106-page report Driving Under the Influence of Drugs and Alcohol for the year 2016.  This first-of-its-kind report and its database enabled us to draw twelve important conclusions.

 

 

1          Colorado’s report is the first to show causes of DUI, not just presence of drugs

Coroners … READ MORE

Two great new sources of data!

There were two great publications out this month!

First, the Colorado Department of Public Safety’s Division of Criminal Justice (DCJ) released Driving Under the Influence of Drugs and Alcohol.  This comprehensive report makes the following facts perfectly clear:

  • Driving Under the Influence (DUI) is not just about alcohol.
  • Driving Under the Influence of Drugs (DUID) is not just about marijuana (polydrug impairment is more than twice as common and far more deadly).
  • Due to
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