Don’t Drive High.
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Fast facts about drug-impaired driving (DID)

• 50% of cannabis users don’t think that drugs affect their driving much, while 1 in 5 don’t think it has any negative effect at all.^Footnote1
• 2 in 5 – 39% of those who have used cannabis in the past year have driven within two hours of consuming cannabis.^{Footnote 1}
• 149 – Number of fatally injured Canadian drivers who tested positive for cannabis in 2014.^{Footnote 2}
• 3,489 – Number of DID violations reported in Canada in 2017. ^{Footnote 3}
• 2 in 5 – Approximate number of people who were a passenger in a vehicle driven by someone who had recently used cannabis.^{Footnote 1}
• Drugs impair your: balance and coordination, motor skills, judgement, reaction time, attention, decision-making skills ^{Footnote 4}
• Every 3 hours – How often a drug-impaired driving incident is recorded in Canada ^{Footnote 5}
• Increases likelihood – Recent research shows a 1.3- to 3.0-fold increase in risk of a motor vehicle collisions after cannabis use.^{Footnote 6}
• 1000$ + a 1-year driving prohibition – Minimum penalty if you are caught driving impaired ^{Footnote 7}

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