{"id":856,"date":"2020-09-10T10:45:19","date_gmt":"2020-09-10T10:45:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.madd.org\/virginia\/?p=856"},"modified":"2022-05-26T09:29:11","modified_gmt":"2022-05-26T09:29:11","slug":"madd-cannabis-report-americas-perception-on-consumption-and-road-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madd.org\/virginia\/madd-cannabis-report-americas-perception-on-consumption-and-road-risk\/","title":{"rendered":"MADD Cannabis Report: America\u2019s Perception on Consumption and Road Risk"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"856\" class=\"elementor elementor-856\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-3ddacf32 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"3ddacf32\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-53e73374\" data-id=\"53e73374\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-11b929b3 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"11b929b3\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><strong>In 2015, MADD expanded its mission<\/strong> to include fighting drug-impaired driving, reflecting our commitment and long history of serving victims and survivors of both drunk and drugged driving. With this commitment, MADD created a Drugged Driving Task Force with key law enforcement, traffic safety and research experts to study the potential effects of marijuana legalization, the national opioid crisis and the prevalence of prescription drugs could have on impaired driving.<br><br>What we learned:<br>\u2013 Proven tools to combat drunk driving, such as high-visibility law enforcement, will detect and stop drugged driving too.<br>\u2013 More research, more data and better testing are needed to fully understand the impact of marijuana legalization and other drugs on traffic safety and the under 21 population.<br>\u2013 Alcohol is a drug that took years of research to understand and establish methods for measuring its impairing effects. The same cannot be said for measuring impairment caused by other drugs, but that doesn\u2019t diminish the seriousness of drug-impaired driving.<br><strong>Read the Report here: <a class=\"text-red\" href=\"https:\/\/www.madd.org\/the-solution\/drugged-driving-prevention\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.madd.org\/the-solution\/drugged-driving-prevention\/<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2015, MADD expanded its mission to include fighting drug-impaired driving, reflecting our commitment and long history of serving victims and survivors of both drunk and drugged driving. 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