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Dope at the wheel

By Arran Frood

23 March 2002

A SINGLE glass of wine will impair your driving more than smoking a joint. And under certain test conditions, the complex way alcohol and cannabis combine to affect driving behaviour suggests that someone who has taken both may drive less recklessly than a person who is simply drunk.

These are the findings of a major new study by British transport researchers. The unpublished research, seen exclusively by Âé¶¹´«Ã½, stops well short of condoning driving under the influence of even small amounts of cannabis. But in a week which has seen renewed debate in Britain surrounding the criminalisation of cannabis …

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