Padula: Are We Really Sure Cannabis Leads To Impaired Driving?

By Gregg Padula gpadula@wickedlocal.com, Winchester Star: Opinion
Thu, 09/06/2018 - 7:47am

Padula: Are we really sure cannabis leads to impaired driving?

I wasn’t planning to write a column exploring whether there’s a correlation between cannabis consumption and auto collisions. However, that recently changed after a television public service announcement caught my attention.The new “Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over” campaign hit television and the internet the end of August. It doesn’t name a specific substance, but the vague language would suggest they’re aiming at cannabis because [...]

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