{"id":879,"date":"2008-11-27T12:02:01","date_gmt":"2008-11-27T11:02:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/?p=879"},"modified":"2008-11-27T12:02:01","modified_gmt":"2008-11-27T11:02:01","slug":"cannabis-and-driving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/2008\/11\/cannabis-and-driving\/","title":{"rendered":"Cannabis and Driving"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A little light relief in amongst all the serious data &#8211; there are occasionally sections \u2013 which although still serious \u2013 can bring a smile to one\u2019s face. One such is this extract from the book \u2018Marijuana \u2013 Deceptive Weed&#8217; by Professor Gabriel Nahas.<\/p>\n<p>Experiments carried out in Germany by Luff (1972) indicate that driving under the effects of Cannabis intoxication induced by active material is hazardous. Twelve young volunteers Ingested 3.2 gr. of a potent preparation, and were tested under actual driving conditions. They passed through 35 stop signs, ignored three red lights, made 233 parking mistakes, ran through l9 pedestrian crossings, demolished a simulated wall of plastic blocks and ran over a large stuffed lion. The dose of delta-9-THC these volunteers absorbed was certainly elevated (60 \u2013 100 mg) but the results are nevertheless sobering. <\/p>\n<p>Source: \u2018Marijuana \u2013 Deceptive Weed\u2019 by Professor Gabriel Nahas, O.B.E., Ph.D. Published Raven press NY 1975.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A little light relief in amongst all the serious data &#8211; there are occasionally sections \u2013 which although still serious \u2013 can bring a smile to one\u2019s face. One such is this extract from the book \u2018Marijuana \u2013 Deceptive Weed&#8217; by Professor Gabriel Nahas. Experiments carried out in Germany by Luff (1972) indicate that driving [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,68,65,60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cannabis-marijuana","category-drug-use-various-effects","category-drugs-and-accidents","category-marijuana-and-medicine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/879\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}