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Establishing legal limits for driving under the influence of marijuana

Overview of attention for article published in Injury Epidemiology, October 2014
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Title
Establishing legal limits for driving under the influence of marijuana
Published in
Injury Epidemiology, October 2014
DOI 10.1186/s40621-014-0026-z
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Authors

Kristin Wong, Joanne E Brady, Guohua Li

Abstract

Marijuana has become the most commonly detected non-alcohol substance among drivers in the United States and Europe. Use of marijuana has been shown to impair driving performance and increase crash risk. Due to the lack of standardization in assessing marijuana-induced impairment and limitations of zero tolerance legislation, more jurisdictions are adopting per se laws by specifying a legal limit of Δ(9)-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) at or above which drivers are prosecuted for driving under the influence of marijuana. This review examines major considerations when developing these threshold THC concentrations and specifics of legal THC limits for drivers adopted by different jurisdictions in the United States and other countries.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 1 1%
Portugal 1 1%
Unknown 81 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 12 14%
Researcher 11 13%
Student > Master 9 11%
Student > Ph. D. Student 8 10%
Other 6 7%
Other 13 16%
Unknown 24 29%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 17 20%
Social Sciences 8 10%
Psychology 7 8%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 4 5%
Chemistry 4 5%
Other 17 20%
Unknown 26 31%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 22. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 20 April 2024.
All research outputs
#1,703,798
of 25,754,670 outputs
Outputs from Injury Epidemiology
#94
of 413 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#19,229
of 275,337 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Injury Epidemiology
#3
of 6 outputs
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