It was found in a recent study, that legalizing either medicinal marijuana or recreational cannabis does not have any association with increased fatalities in pedestrian involved vehicular collisions. The report on this study, "An examination of relationships between cannabis legalization and fatal motor vehicle and pedestrian-involved crashes," was published 08/28/20 in the journal of Traffic Injury Prevention.
This research was conducted by exploring incident accounts to probe for association between laws enacting legal cannabis and the rate of fatal motor vehicle crashes. Samples of data were taken from both fatal crashes and pedestrian involved fatal crashes to account for variances in data. Information was gathered across multiple states, using motor vehicle accidents in three states with legal cannabis (Oregon, Washington, & Colorado) and five states without legal cannabis laws as a control states for the research.
"No Link Between Legal Cannabis And Fatal Pedestrian-Vehicle Collisions"
The conducted research evaluated over 25 years of crash data from the Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS). The monthly rates of fatal motor vehicle collisions and fatal pedestrian-involved collisions per 100,000 people from 1991 to 2018 was analyzed to search for association between laws legalizing cannabis and fatal pedestrian-vehicle collisions. Research suggests there are no identifiable increases in fatal pedestrian involved motor vehicle crashes attributed to cannabis legalization. The authors of the study concluded their study by stating the "overall findings do not suggest an elevated risk of total or pedestrian-involved fatal motor vehicle crashes associated with cannabis legalization."
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