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<blockquote data-quote="Lycanthrope" data-source="post: 233487" data-attributes="member: 562">Here is something I found with a quick search...The rate of fatal car crashes did not&nbsp; significantly increase in the first three years after recreational&nbsp; marijuana was legalized in Washington and Colorado, according to a new&nbsp; study published this week in the <a href="http://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/abs/10.2105/AJPH.2017.303848?af=R&amp;" target="_blank">American Journal of Public Health</a>.&nbsp;The researchers from the University of&nbsp; Texas at Austin drew on statistics of annual statewide motor vehicle&nbsp; crash fatalities. They used statistical analysis to compare motor&nbsp; vehicle crash fatalities between 2009 and 2015 in Washington, Colorado&nbsp; (these two states legalized recreational marijuana in 2012), and eight&nbsp; control states. Alabama, Indiana, Kentucky, Missouri, South Carolina,&nbsp; Tennessee, Texas, and Wisconsin were chosen as the control states since&nbsp; they all have comparable traffic, roadway, and population&nbsp; characteristics, yet do not have recreational marijuana legalization.&nbsp;Overall, annual motor vehicle crash&nbsp; fatality rates decreased over this six-year period, from 12.8 fatalities&nbsp; per billion vehicle miles traveled in 2009 to 11.4 fatalities per&nbsp; billion vehicle miles traveled in 2015.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Lycanthrope, post: 233487, member: 562"] Here is something I found with a quick search... The rate of fatal car crashes did not significantly increase in the first three years after recreational marijuana was legalized in Washington and Colorado, according to a new study published this week in the [URL="http://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/abs/10.2105/AJPH.2017.303848?af=R&"]American Journal of Public Health[/URL]. The researchers from the University of Texas at Austin drew on statistics of annual statewide motor vehicle crash fatalities. They used statistical analysis to compare motor vehicle crash fatalities between 2009 and 2015 in Washington, Colorado (these two states legalized recreational marijuana in 2012), and eight control states. Alabama, Indiana, Kentucky, Missouri, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Wisconsin were chosen as the control states since they all have comparable traffic, roadway, and population characteristics, yet do not have recreational marijuana legalization. Overall, annual motor vehicle crash fatality rates decreased over this six-year period, from 12.8 fatalities per billion vehicle miles traveled in 2009 to 11.4 fatalities per billion vehicle miles traveled in 2015. [/QUOTE]

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