LETTER: Don’t single out pot in driving accidents
January 17, 2021 - 9:00 pm
Studies have shown that driving under the influence of alcohol is 17 times more likely to cause a fatal accident than marijuana. So why do people complain about legalized cannabis when a rare fatality occurs? You never hear them call for mass closures of bars with all the alcohol-related deaths.
Driving under the influence is wrong no matter what the substance. But let’s not single out cannabis. Freedom of choice is important to Americans.