The number of drivers dying in crashes that involve marijuana has doubled in Washington State.
AAA Wisconsin spokesman Nick Jarmusz says Washington legalized marijuana in 2012. The auto group looked at pot-related crashes in the five years before, and five years after that time. He says marijuana was involved in nine percent of deaths in 2008, and 18 percent in 2017.
Jarmusz thinks the numbers could be even worse because all of the drivers in crashes probably weren’t tested for marijuana.
He says the tricky thing with pot is there’s no scientifically valid threshold to judge impairment. He says there are too many variables with how marijuana metabolizes.
