RE: San Fran to expunge over 9000 cannabis convictions
March 2, 2019 at 9:20 pm
(This post was last modified: March 2, 2019 at 9:23 pm by EgoDeath.)
(March 2, 2019 at 9:12 pm)Yonadav Wrote:(March 2, 2019 at 8:52 pm)Rev. Rye Wrote: I think the math is 30,000 deaths in car accidents*.06 increase in car accidents due to legalization=1800 more deaths.
Granted, I'm not sure things will actually end up that way, but his math at least makes sense from the propositions he gave.
Exactly.
First of all, it's not a six percent increase. So that's plain wrong.
"Legalizing recreational marijuana use in Colorado, Oregon and Washington has resulted in collision claim frequencies that are about 3 percent higher overall than would have been expected without legalization"
https://www.iihs.org/iihs/news/desktopne...ed-crashes
So not only is it not a six percent increase because of cannabis (more like a 3 percent increase), but it's also still not 100% clear if cannabis legalization is what cause this 3 percent increase, as stated in the studies.
"researchers haven't been able to definitively connect marijuana use with more frequent real-world crashes."
We need to be careful about throwing around information.
I think, with the information we have, it's, at best, safe to assume that cannabis legalization MAY cause a small increase in reported car collisions, but it still isn't clear whether drivers are impaired during said collisions or whether they simply have THC and other cannabinoids present in their blood. It's not as clear-cut as saying "legalizing weed causes a 6% increase in car collisions" - that's simply not true.
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