Community Focus: Teaching students the risks of driving high

EAST PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) — Alcohol and marijuana are the two substances most often involved in fatal traffic accidents where a driver is impaired.

This makes the results of a new study from the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety all the more concerning: Of the 2,000 cannabis users surveyed, more than half of them get behind the wheel of a car within one hour of consuming the substance.

While recreational cannabis usage is legal in Rhode Island and Massachusetts, driving while high is not…

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