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Many of the youth surveyed said they felt it was safe to drive after using cannabis, with some feeling it made them better drivers, says Robert Colonna, 25, a PhD candidate in health promotion at Western.
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Others said they would likely drive high in the future and didn’t understand the risks involved in combining driving with cannabis, he said.
Colonna surveyed 426 young Ontario drivers in 2018, a month before recreational cannabis was legalized in Canada. His research was recently published in the Journal of Safety Research.
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