{"id":41030,"date":"2014-02-10T08:15:49","date_gmt":"2014-02-10T15:15:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/02\/10\/pot-and-auto-accidents.html"},"modified":"2014-02-10T11:12:50","modified_gmt":"2014-02-10T18:12:50","slug":"pot-and-auto-accidents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/02\/10\/pot-and-auto-accidents.html","title":{"rendered":"Pot and auto accidents"},"content":{"rendered":"
Lots of people are concerned that legalized marijuana will lead to increased accidents and fatalities, and everyone thinks we need to be keeping track of it — but nobody is (and it's not clear what it would take to do so). \u00a0<\/p>\n

Which sounds like a great basis for a bunch of claims to be made without any evidence to back them up — which is already happening.\ufeff<\/p><\/div>\n

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Colorado marijuana legalization’s impact on stoned driving unknown<\/a>
\n When a 23-year-old Arvada man crashed his pickup into the back of a Colorado State Patrol car in January, authorities said it was an example of what could be a disturbing trend: a rise in dangerous marijuana-impaired driving.\n <\/p>\n

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Lots of people are concerned that legalized marijuana will lead to increased accidents and fatalities, and everyone thinks we need to be keeping track of it — but nobody is (and it's not clear what it would take to do so). \u00a0 Which sounds like a great basis for a bunch of claims to be … Continue reading “Pot and auto accidents”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,5,17,385,371],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-cars","category-homeland-security","category-safety","category-war-on-drugs"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":51268,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/05\/26\/there-are-accidents-and-there-are-accidents.html","url_meta":{"origin":41030,"position":0},"title":"There are accidents and there are accidents","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 26-May-15 10:09pm","format":false,"excerpt":"There's a great Frankenstein's Monster vibe to this story (and the +Boing Boing post that reprinted it), but it's not quite as \"horrible\" as it sounds:1. 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