how dangerous is smoking marijuana and driving?
Male:”I think that made me so paranoid I was driving really slow and more carefully. Then again I did imagine things on the side of the road.” Graham: Do you reckon it’s a problem on the road? Male: No,no, drinking is but not pot. Female: “I’d have to say it’s dangerous because you’re not in full control of your mind.” Narration: The debate’s being going on for years, but at last we have a definitive answer. For more than a decade, everyone who’s ended up in this Melbourne morgue from a car accident has had their blood analysed…to see if the crash was caused by alcohol, marijuana, amphetamines or other drugs. And Olaf Drummer’s results were staggering. Professor Olaf Drummer: Drivers who use cannabis and are driving shortly after are almost seven times higher risk of being involved in a fatal crash than a drug free driver. Narration: In fact, drugs combined kill more people on the roads now than alcohol, and the leading killer drug is marijuana. This result was a genuine surprise, beca
