“I thought recreational marijuana use would lead to a greater likelihood of car accidents and injuries, but we didn’t see that,” said Russell Callaghan, a psychologist of the University of Northern B.C.
Researchers analyzed 239,673 reports on ambulatory patients from Alberta and Ontario — the only provinces that document all emergency room visits — in the four years leading up to October 2018.
Post-legalization, the weekly average of Alberta motor vehicle accident injuries recorded varied between five and 20, as they were in the four years before cannabis was made legal.
“Being stoned from marijuana is also very different from being impaired from alcohol.
In 2019, police forces in Canada reported a total of 85,673 incidents of impaired driving, the highest number since 2011.
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