Daily News | Smell of weed on N.J. and Philly roads spurs fears of unsafe driving
starting last April — a growing number of people are concerned that they’re smelling too much weed on the road. That’s kicking off fears that many motorists are high, making driving unsafe.
“We smell marijuana on drivers at checkpoints we have for DUI interdiction,” said Philadelphia Police Capt. Mark Overwise, commanding officer of the Crash Investigation Division. “With this new recreational use in New Jersey, there are a lot of people not experienced with the effects of driving while using marijuana.”
Instead, the agency listed state police statistics on crashes in 2021, before licensed sales of cannabis began. They show that 89 of the 667 fatal crashes that year involved a driver who tested positive for cannabis. Nevertheless, researchers writing in the journal, Fronts in Psychiatry in 2021, warned there is a “mathematical certainty that the problem of cannabis-impaired driving will worsen... .[Such driving] “is an under-appreciated risk, and one with growing public health consequences.”
Statistics show there’s an increasing number of car accidents near marijuana dispensaries around the country, according to Reagan Wetherill, psychiatry professor at the University of Pennsylvania Center for Addiction Studies in the Perelman School of Medicine. That data was not made available in New Jersey.
Vito Abrusci, a former Morris County police lieutenant, is a so-called Drug Recognition Expert who’s conducted extensive examinations of drivers in accidents. He’s sometimes hired by defense attorneys to review police DUI investigations.
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