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UK: Motoring researchers test vodka-cannabis mix
Ananova
Monday 12 Aug 2002 Drivers have been plied with triple vodka and tonics and specially-imported cannabis before going behind the wheel at the request of the Government. The Home Office gave a licence for the University of Birmingham to import the drug and then transfer it to the Transport Research Laboratory in Crowthorne, Berkshire. Twenty males all aged over 18 and regular cannabis and alcohol users drank the vodka and tonics five minutes before smoking the cannabis in a drink-drugs-driving exercise conducted for the Department for Transport. The RAC Foundation said the research was conducted to ascertain the effects of mixing relatively low doses of cannabis and alcohol on driving. The alcohol amounted to a blood alcohol concentration of 50mg of alcohol per 100ml of blood (80mg is the legal limit). The main findings included respondents being aware of their impairment and trying to compensate by driving more slowly. It was also found that the effects of cannabis and alcohol together were greater than with cannabis alone. There was no evidence that either alcohol or cannabis offset the effect of the other. Edmund King, executive director of the RAC Foundation, said: "This research should now convince Government that they need to launch nation wide publicity campaigns warning of the dangers of drug driving. "Even with relatively low doses of cannabis and alcohol drivers are at danger of veering out of their lane and causing fatal accidents. Despite the fact that the cannabis drivers drove more slowly, this did not compensate for their poor eye/hand co-ordination."
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