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MJ Displacing Alcohol = Increased Highway Safety

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A Revelation February 21-22, 2012 http://freedomofmedicineanddiet.blogspot.com/2013/02/stay-off-grass.html   Pot Smokers Drive Fine Far Above Legal THC Limit [IIHS - MUST ADMIT IT- DW] Jacob Sullum | Feb. 15, 2013 1:03 pm   KIRO-TV A recent report by KIRO-TV, the CBS station in Seattle, provides further evidence that Washington's new standard for driving while under the influence of marijuana is a poor measure  of impairment. Initiative 502, which legalized marijuana for recreational use, established a per se standard of five nanograms of THC per milliliter of blood. Critics argued that cannabis consumers may exceed that level even when they are not impaired, and KIRO did a simple driving experiment (video below) that shows they were right. The station enlisted three volunteers: Addy Norton, "a 27-year-old medical marijuana patient and heavy daily marijuana user who smoked pot before arriving at the test site"; Dylan Evans, a 34-year-old week