{"id":9220,"date":"2020-06-22T18:33:05","date_gmt":"2020-06-22T18:33:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thecannabist.co\/2020\/06\/22\/recreational-marijuana-laws-may-boost-traffic-deaths-studies-say\/134898\/"},"modified":"2020-06-22T18:33:05","modified_gmt":"2020-06-22T18:33:05","slug":"recreational-marijuana-laws-may-boost-traffic-deaths-studies-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/recreational-marijuana-laws-may-boost-traffic-deaths-studies-say\/","title":{"rendered":"Recreational marijuana laws may boost traffic deaths, studies say"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0 5px 5px;float:right;height:100px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/recreational-marijuana-laws-may-boost-traffic-deaths-studies-say\/\" send=\"true\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div><div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecannabist.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Recreational_Pot_Traffic_Deaths_49582-560x373.jpg\"><img src=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/recreational-marijuana-laws-may-boost-traffic-deaths-studies-say.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div><img src=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/recreational-marijuana-laws-may-boost-traffic-deaths-studies-say-2.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"large-10 large-centered small-12 columns\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecannabist.co\/2020\/06\/22\/recreational-marijuana-laws-may-boost-traffic-deaths-studies-say\/134898\/#comments-anchor\"><span class=\"spot-im-replies-count\" data-post-id=\"134898\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>By LINDSEY TANNER | The Associated Press<\/p>\n<p>Laws legalizing recreational marijuana may lead to more traffic deaths, two new studies suggest, although questions remain about how they might influence driving habits.<\/p>\n<p>Previous research has had mixed results and the new studies, published Monday in JAMA Internal Medicine, can\u2019t prove that the traffic death increases they found were caused by marijuana use.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/2020\/06\/22\/recreational-pot-laws-may-boost-traffic-deaths-studies-say\/\">Read the rest of this story on MercuryNews.com.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!-- .row --> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By LINDSEY TANNER | The Associated Press Laws legalizing recreational marijuana may lead to more traffic deaths, two new studies suggest, although questions remain about how they might influence driving habits. Previous research has had mixed results and the new studies, published Monday in JAMA Internal Medicine, can\u2019t prove that the traffic death increases they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5062,8226,6892,9,441,1,3,8291,7508,61,1736],"tags":[5063,8227,6893,3015,8292,7510],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9220"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9220\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}