Without additional signal, this news basically boils down to "An illegal thing is made legal. People in car accidents are found to have used the legal thing." N

Without additional signal, this news basically boils down to "An illegal thing is made legal. People in car accidents are found to have used the legal thing." Not implying that cannabis doesn't impair one's ability to operate a motor vehicle, but there isn't nearly enough data in this story to do anything scientifically useful with that notion. Are we seeing a spike in traffic fatalities? Are roads getting less safe? Because without some reason to chase the numbers, we're just left with "people in car accidents did legal things before getting in those accidents." Like... Did you know accidents involving cellphones went up after the invention of the cellphone? And good thing we finally ended the reign of terror that is accidents involving tape-deck / audio jack converters thanks to Bluetooth... (ETA): The trend in accidents over the past decade has been mostly flat, with a bit of a spike as of late. Hard to disambiguate the cause of that spike between other causes and "After COVID we dumped a lot of people back onto the road who hadn't been driving for a year or two." https://www.iihs.org/topics/fatality-statistics/detail/yearly-snapshot https://www.iihs.org/topics/fatality-statistics/detail/yearl...