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KCNC News Story

Shaun Boyd, investigative journalist for the CBS TV station in Denver ran a news story featuring Ed Wood of DUID Victim Voices January 29, 2021.

Colorado drugged driving data

Colorado has a drugged driving problem. Lukas Myers knows this.  The photo shows him being extracted from a car when he was 12 years old

CDC guidance: THC and crash risk

Those who cling to the myth that THC’s role in traffic safety is unclear were buoyed by release in 2017 of guidance from the Centers

Cannabis vs. Marijuana

Some in the marijuana lobby have pushed for adoption of the word “cannabis” rather than “marijuana” on the grounds that the word marijuana is pejorative

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

Wanted: imaginative thinking

Rosekind, Ehsani and Michael published a June 2020 Commentary in JAMA Internal Medicine calling for more data to inform policies needed to reduce impaired driving

Stoned driving more common than drunk driving

Colorado authorized the use of marijuana tax dollars to temporarily fund a program at the Colorado Bureau of Investigation’s Forensic Toxicology laboratory, enabling them to

Deceptive statistical analysis

Two articles on the effect of recreational marijuana commercialization on traffic fatalities reached opposite conclusions in the June 22nd 2020 issue of JAMA Internal Medicine.

Another badly flawed study

Jeff Brubacher from Vancouver General Hospital published “Cannabis use as a risk factor for causing motor vehicle crashes: a prospective study.”  The study has earned

Morally reprehensible Colorado legislature

Colorado’s House Committee on Business Affairs and Labor yesterday approved HB19-1230, a bill creating “Marijuana Hospitality Establishments” so purchasers of “legal” marijuana would have public