>From: "Peter McWilliams" <peter@mcwilliams.com>
>Subject: Drive on!
>Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2000 12:55:51 -0800
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>Pot safer for drivers than alcohol: study
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>TORONTO (CP) Canadian Press - Getting high on marijuana doesn't hinder the
>ability to drive nearly as much as drinking alcohol, a University of Toronto
>study suggests.
>
>While marijuana, like alcohol, impairs performance, people who drive after
>smoking moderate amounts of pot compensate by driving more slowly and
>cautiously, said researcher Alison Smiley.
>
>"Their behavior is more appropriate to their impairment, whereas subjects
>who received alcohol tended to drive in a more risky manner.: said Smiley,
>and adjunct professor in the university's mechanical and industrial
>engineering department.
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