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Home 🌿 Cannabis Technology News 🌿 CAMH studying the effect of marijuana on driving ... by getting people high 🌿CAMH studying the effect of marijuana on driving ... by getting people high
Scientists at CAMH are getting people high, and then putting them behind the wheel -- of a driving simulator.
If Justin Trudeau's Liberal government legalizes marijuana in Canada, research by drug experts at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health in Toronto may play a role in how it's enforced.
For the last two years, scientists Robert Mann and Gina Stoduto have been giving test subjects a joint, putting them behind the wheel of a driving simulator, and recording what happens under controlled conditions.
"The number one drug found in dead and injured drivers after alcohol is cannabis," Mann said. "Teenage drivers in high school are now more likely to drive after cannabis use than they are after drinking."
Based on a real Chevrolet Cavalier, the $100,000 simulator has a realistic ignition and functioning instrument panel. Monitors provide a 180-degree view, and the seat vibrates based on the road surface....
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