 Marijuana study targets women
There have been many marijuana studies investigating the effects the drug has on driving, but most of these studies were done back in the '70s when mj was less potent. Few of these studies looked at its effect on female drivers. Recently, a group of researchers examined these issues specifically with a new study that looks at the effects of today's marijuana on women drivers. They hypothesized "that driving impairment following marijuana use may be a sex-specific vulnerability."
You might remember from high school science that any good scientific study starts with a hypothesis which the researcher proves or disproves with an experiment. In this experiment, the researchers took a "large" number of occasional users of both sexes – 50 males and 35 females and disproved their hypothesis.
Yes, they concluded NO "differences attributable to sex." Not only that,they found the drivers in their study who were under the influence of mj drove no differently than sober people under regular driving conditions or when under accident-avoiding conditions. No difference. Under distracted driving conditions, the marijuana users did slow down some.
You can read the full article for yourself here: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3033009/ and draw your own conclusions about this drug.
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