Articles tagged with "driving"
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Study: Legal cannabis hasn’t increased fatal car crashes
Emily Earlenbaugh - Published on November 19, 2023Read moreMassachusetts saw road deaths fall nearly 30%.
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Traveling with weed? Here’s some tips for the 2024 season
David Downs - Published on July 18, 2023Read moreNew legalization states, decriminalization countries, and new rules for hemp and CBD.
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Survey: 26% of young people have driven high or ridden with a high driver
Jesse B. Staniforth - Published on January 8, 2020Read moreMoreover, 15% of respondents said they believed their driving ability was either the same or improved when they were high.
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A Guide to Getting Home Safe for the Red Eyed Jedi
The Ontario Ministry of Health - Published on August 2, 2019Read moreThere are many ways to avoid driving high.
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New Roadside Cannabis Test Approved for Use in Canada
Jesse B. Staniforth - Published on July 18, 2019Read moreBut the new device, much like its predecessor, still doesn’t detect drug impairment.
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Designated Driver not Accountable for Cannabis-Carrying Passengers, Court Decides
Jesse B. Staniforth - Published on May 23, 2019Read moreA Newfoundland woman said she had no idea her passengers were carrying cannabis in a mason jar.
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Nova Scotia Woman Plans Constitutional Challenge of Roadside Cannabis Test
The Canadian Press - Published on April 8, 2019Read moreHALIFAX – A lawyer for a Nova Scotia motorist whose license was suspended after her saliva tested positive for cannabis says his firm will use the case to launch a constitutional challenge of Canada’s revamped impaired driving laws. Jack Lloyd says Michelle Gray’s case shows the law is too broad and too vague, mainly because […]
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Vermont Supreme Court: Smell of Burnt Cannabis Doesn’t Justify Search
Leafly Staff - Published on January 7, 2019Read moreThe state’s highest court ruled that a faint odor of burnt marijuana doesn’t create a fair probability that cannabis itself would be found.
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Massachusetts Court: Roadside Drunk Driving Tests Not Valid for Cannabis
The Associated Press - Published on September 19, 2017Read moreMassachusetts’ highest court ruled Tuesday that field sobriety tests typically used in drunken-driving cases cannot be treated as conclusive evidence that a motorist was operating under the influence of marijuana.
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Vermont’s Supreme Court to Consider Cannabis ‘Sniff Test’
Ben Adlin - Published on August 25, 2017Read moreVermont’s highest court is set to consider a case involving whether the simple smell of cannabis constitutes legal grounds to search and seize a driver’s vehicle.
