ADDITIONAL DATA INDICATE THAT MEDICAL MARIJUANA AND
RECREATIONAL MARIJUANA THAT HAS BEEN LEGALIZED IN VARIOUS STATES
HAS NOT LED TO AN INCREASE IN TRAFFIC RELATED DEATHS.
THAT WAS A HUGE CONCERN OF THOSE WHO WERE AGAINST LEGALIZING
MARIJUANA AND IT TURNS OUT THAT VARIOUS STUDIES HAVE
INDICATED THAT NO COMMONALITY STATES HAVE LEGALIZED IT, WE
HAVE AN EXPERIENCE AN INCREASE IN TRAFFIC RELATED DEATHS.
WE COVERED A STORY SIMILAR TO THIS A FEW MONTHS AGO AND
THIS IS YET ANOTHER STUDY.
LET ME GIVE YOU THE DETAILS.
DEATHS ACTUALLY DROPPED 11%
ON AVERAGE IN STATES THAT LEGALIZED MEDICAL MARIJUANA.
THIS IS TRAFFIC RELATED TO STOP PEOPLE THOUGHT PEOPLE WOULD
SMOKE WEED AND GET BEHIND THE WHEEL AND DRIVER RADICALLY.
IF YOU EVER SMOKED WE DO KNOW THAT DOESN'T REALLY MAKE
SENSE BUT ALSO THE PEOPLE WHO SMOKE MARIJUANA USUALLY
HAVE DIFFERENT HABITS.
THEY ARE LESS LIKELY TO GO OUT.
THEY ARE MORE LIKELY TO STAY IN.
THE HYPOTHESIS BEHIND THIS IS OKAY, PEOPLE ARE STAYING IN
AN SMOKING WEED AND THEY ARE NOT GETTING BEHIND THE WHEEL AT
ALL AND THAT IS WHAT IS POSSIBLY LOWERING THE NUMBER OF
TRAFFIC RELATED FATALITIES.
THERE ARE A BUNCH OF DIFFERENT THEORIES HERE BUT
LET'S CUT THROUGH ALL THAT.
LET ME BACK UP AND THEN GET TO THE THEORIES.
I SAW THE HEADLINE FOR THE STORY.
I CAME IN A LITTLE SKEPTICAL.
WE'VE SEEN TOO MANY STORIES ABOUT HOW MIRACULOUS
MARIJUANA IS, RIGHT?
AND I THOUGHT TO MYSELF BEFORE I READ THE CONTEXT OF THE
STORY IF IT IS A RED TWO OR 3%
DIFFERENCE I'M GOING TO DISCOUNT AND SAY IT IS JUST VARIANCE.
BUT 11% OVER ALL OF THESE DIFFERENT STATES, OVER ALL THIS
TIME WHEN THEY STUDIED 1.2 MILLION TRAFFIC FATALITIES,
THAT'S PRETTY SIGNIFICANT AND IN CALIFORNIA AND IN NEW MEXICO,
THE YEAR AFTER THEY MADE MEDICAL MARIJUANA LEGAL THERE WAS A
17% DROP IN NEW MEXICO AND A 16% DROP IN CALIFORNIA.
IT ACTUALLY THEN CAME BACK TO THE CLOSER AVERAGE OF 11%
OVER THE YEARS, BUT NO, THAT IS CLEARLY AN EFFECT.
IT'S AN OBVIOUS EFFECT.
LET'S TALK ABOUT METHODOLOGY A LITTLE BIT AND WHAT THIS
ALL MEANS.
SO FAR THE STUDIES HAVEN'T FOUND A CAUSAL LINK.
BUT THAT'S VERY HARD.
IT IS, AND LOOK, I FEEL LIKE THAT SOMETHING RESEARCHERS CAN
ACHIEVE WITH MORE RESEARCH INTO THIS AS TIME GOES ON BECAUSE
REMEMBER, THIS IS A RELATIVELY NEW PHENOMENON IN THE US.
BUT THE CORRELATION IS STRONG BECAUSE IN THE VERY LEAST
WHAT THIS DOES PROVE IS YOU LEGALIZE MARIJUANA, IT
DOESN'T MEAN THAT IT WILL LEAD TO MORE PEOPLE CAUSING
FATALITIES IN THE CAR ACCIDENTS.
THAT'S ABSOLUTELY RIGHT.
AT A MINIMUM, THE PROPAGANDA THAT THE WORLD IS GOING TO
FALL APART AND EVERYONE IS GOING TO BE CRASHING INTO ONE
ANOTHER IS TOTALLY NOT TRUE.
NOT EVEN REMOTELY TRUE.
2ND OF ALL, THEY CAN SHOW THE CORRELATION AND PART OF
WHAT WE DO HERE IS ANALYSIS AND YOU CAN SAY HEY, I AM GOING
TO DISCOUNT YOUR ANALYSIS.
YOU JUST TOLD ME WHAT THE FACTS ARE NOT CAN MAKE MY OWN
JUDGMENT, BUT IT IS SO HARD FOR THEM TO PROVE THAT PEOPLE
ARE STAYING AT HOME AND THAT IS WHY ALL OF THIS STUFF.
HERE IS MY HYPOTHESIS ON IT.
1ST OF ALL, OF COURSE THAT IS TOO BIG OF A NUMBER.
WE'RE NOT TALKING ABOUT AROUND THE EDGES, TWO OR 3%.
WE'RE TALKING ABOUT ALL OF THOSE STATES AND ALL OF THOSE
FATALITIES.
11% IS A BIG NUMBER.
THE YEAR AFTER THE LAW PASSES, FOR THEM TO HAVE A 16% DROP IN
FATALITIES IS NO JOKE AND HAVE A HAPPEN AT ALL THOSE DIFFERENT
STATES AT THE SAME TIME SEEMS LIKE A HIGH CORRELATION.
ON ALL THE DIFFERENT THEORIES AS TO WHY HERE'S MY BEST GUESS.
THERE ARE TWO MAIN FACTORS.
ONE IS THEY ARE SUBSTITUTING IT FOR ALCOHOL AND ALCOHOL
KILLS A LOT MORE PEOPLE WHEN YOU DRIVE WHEN YOU'RE DRUNK.
I HAVE A STRANGE REACTION TO MARIJUANA.
I WOULDN'T DRIVE WHEN I AM HIGH AND EVERYBODY HAS A
DIFFERENT REACTION.
I'M SAYING IT IS PERFECTLY SAFE.
I AM SAYING DON'T TRUST MY ANECDOTAL EVIDENCE, LOOK AT
THE DATA AND ALCOHOL HAS PROVEN TO BE INCREDIBLY DANGEROUS
WHEN YOU DRIVE ON IT.
IF MORE PEOPLE ARE SMOKING INSTEAD OF DRINKING, YOU
ARE GOING TO APPARENTLY HAVE LESS FATALITIES.
IT IS NOT THAT COLLOCATED PLUSES YOU SAID, THE SECOND FACTOR
THAT I HADN'T START OF IS NOT ONLY ARE THEY NOT DRINKING,
BUT THEY DON'T HAVE TO GO OUT ANYMORE.
THEY ARE AT HOME.
EXACTLY.
THINK ABOUT IT, DRINKING FOR THE MOST PART IS A SOCIAL ACTIVITY.
FOR SOME PEOPLE SMOKING MARIJUANA IS A SOCIAL
ACTIVITY AS WELL BUT A LOT OF PEOPLE SMOKE MARIJUANA
ALONE OR USE MARIJUANA ALONE.
YOU GO TO A BAR, YOU GET HAMMERED, AND SOME PEOPLE
DON'T CALL A CAB.
THEY GET BEHIND THE WHEEL AND THAT LEADS TO MORE TRAFFIC
RELATED FATALITIES.
IN THE CASE OF MARIJUANA, AGAIN PEOPLE ARE MORE LIKELY TO
STAY HOME WHETHER THEY HAVE COMPANY OR NOT THAT THEY'RE
NOT GOING TO GET BEHIND THE WHEEL.
THAT IS AGAIN A HYPOTHESIS.
IT'S IMPORTANT TO KIND OF LOOK OF THE HABITS AND BEHAVIOR
OF THE PEOPLE USING THE DRUG TO SEE WHAT ALL THE DIFFERENT
FACTORS ARE AND WHETHER THIS IS MORE OF A BEHAVIORAL THING
THEN THE IMPACT OF THE DRUG ITSELF BUT YOU ARE RIGHT,
CENK UYGUR, SOME PEOPLE CLAIM THEY CAN SMOKE WEED AND GET
BEHIND THE WILL AND THEY ACTUALLY DRIVE MORE CAREFULLY.
I DO NOT SUGGEST OR RECOMMEND ANYONE DOES THAT.
I WOULD NEVER DO IT.
THERE IS MORE ANECDOTAL EVIDENCE.
COPS PULLING GUYS OVER GOING 50 MILES AN HOUR ON THE
HIGHWAY AND THEY ARE LIKE DO NOT TRUST YOU ARE GOING?
I DON'T KNOW, 85, 90.
NO, 15.
WHICH BY THE WAY IS INSANELY DANGEROUS.
IT'S ABOUT IDEA THAT WE ARE DEFINITELY NOT IN THE CAMP THAT
HAS NO DOWNSIDES AND IT'S NIRVANA
BUT LOOK AT THE
DATA AND THE NUMBERS.
WHEN THEY FEARMONGER AND SAY WE CAN'T LEGALIZE BECAUSE EVERYONE
IS GOING TO DIE INCLUDING ON THE HIGHWAYS, NOT REMOTELY TRUE.
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