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Home 🌿 Recreational Marijuana News 🌿 Colorado reports uptick in marijuana-related driving offenses in 2014 🌿Colorado reports uptick in marijuana-related driving offenses in 2014
A majority of tickets for driving under the influence in Colorado involved marijuana in 2014, according to new law enforcement statistics released in September.
The Rocky Mountain High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area is a collection of federal, state and local law enforcement in four states. Colorado is the only one with legal recreational marijuana, so a new report from the agencies focus on its impact on the state.
In Denver, impaired driving tickets involving marijuana doubled from 33 to 66 in one year. The Colorado State Patrol reported that 77 percent of its cases involved marijuana.
However, only 41 percent -- 354 out of 874 of all impaired drivers tested positive for marijuana alone.
The Oregonian/OregonLive reported in August that the trouble with determining marijuana's impact on road safety is the difficulty in determining how much effect pot has on drivers.
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