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US: More drivers test positive for pot since Washington legalized cannabis: cops

Michael Walsh

NY Daily News

Monday 25 Nov 2013

After Washington state legalized the recreational use of marijuana, 745 drivers tested positive for having pot in their system with 420 of them exceeding the legal limit. The pro-legalization Marijuana Policy Project, Citizens Against Legalizing Marijuana and the Washington State Patrol spoke to The News about what these numbers do — and do not — mean.

The number of Washingtonians who tested positive for pot while driving got higher ever since the leaf's legalization in January, authorities said.

Washington State Patrol says it found THC, marijuana's psychoactive ingredient, in the bloodstream of 745 drivers pulled over this year.

That’s a nine percentage point increase from where we were last year at this time, Sgt. Jason Hicks explained.

"It was previously illegal to drive under the influence of marijuana and it remains illegal," Mason Tvert, spokesperson for the Marijuana Policy Project (MPP), told the Daily News.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/drivers-test-positive-pot-cannabis-legalization-wash-cops-article-1.1527867#ixzz2le9yaxEE

 

 

 

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