{"id":28154,"date":"2015-10-09T22:20:12","date_gmt":"2015-10-09T22:20:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.idrivesafely.com\/?p=28892"},"modified":"2024-07-01T07:23:58","modified_gmt":"2024-07-01T07:23:58","slug":"recreational-marijuana-and-driver-safety-how-high-is-too-high","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.idrivesafely.com\/blog\/marijuana-driver-safety","title":{"rendered":"Recreational Marijuana and Driver Safety – How High is Too High?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In 2014, Oregon became the fourth state in the United States to approve marijuana for recreational use – and just last Thursday, on October 1st, the first legal Oregon dispensaries opened their doors for business.<\/p>\n

While the initiative to legalize recreational marijuana details extensive restrictions and limits on marijuana use (e.g. purchasing limits, “gifting” limits, taxes), there’s one precaution that it fails to mention: the adverse effects of driving while high.<\/p>\n

The Facts About High Driving \u2013 or Lack Thereof<\/h2>\n

Although marijuana is legal in 23 states and Washington, D.C. in some form or another, there have yet to be any definitive studies to help academically determine the legal limit of THC (the active compound in marijuana) when driving. Washington and Colorado both have imposed legal limits of 5 nanograms<\/a>, but that number is largely arbitrary and isn\u2019t based on much research at all.<\/p>\n

To get to the bottom of this, in 2013 a news crew sought to find out how much marijuana it would take to truly show signs of impaired driving:<\/p>\n