App Shows Freight Truck and Car Drivers Their Level of Impairment After Smoking Marijuana

Legalisation Leads to US Self-Test Kit Whilst UK Safety Group Pleads for Zero Alcohol Levels

US – UK – In the US a small start-up company has produced an app suitably titled ‘Canary’ which is intended to help car and freight truck drivers decide whether they are fit to take control of a vehicle. Whilst not condoning the practice of taking drugs, prescription or otherwise, if they are likely to affect performance, this application is clearly aimed at those who smoke marijuana, particularly where it is no longer proscribed.

The drug was legalised in Colorado last year and a Boulder based company, Belles Farm (named after owner Marc Silverman’s dog) have produced something that Silverman describes as ‘a tool for responsible individuals’. The app tests memory, reaction time, balance, and time perception, aping the tests performed by US law enforcers at roadside. A video on the...

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