Drug-impaired driving up 43 percent in Canada: report

The number of police charges for drug-impaired driving jumped 43 percent after Parliament legalized marijuana, Statistics Canada cited Friday. Prosecutors predicted the surge of cases once a 95-year criminal ban on recreational cannabis was repealed in 2015, reports Blacklocks. "Drug-impaired driving is significantly under detected," StatsCan wrote in a report on impaired driving in Canada. "Drugs may be involved as often, or maybe more often, than alcohol in impaired driving incidents." Analysts counted 6,453 incidents reported by police, a 43 percent uptick of drug-impaired driving cases in 2019, which was the first full year of legalization over 2018.-- More...