Colorado partners with the marijuana industry to tackle the issue of cannabis-impaired driving, which continues to be a problem 10 years after the legalization of marijuana in the state.
As part of a 4/20 safe driving campaign, industry members met on Wednesday with officials from Colorado's transportation agency to discuss how budtenders can act on the frontlines to prevent people from driving while high.The state wants dispensaries to train employees on the signs of high customers — from glassy eyes and dilated pupils to short-term memory loss — and what they can do to keep them from driving.
That includes budtenders asking how people are feeling, refusing to sell a product to customers, or offering to call them a ride home.As "trusted advisers" to their customers, it's "critical" that budtenders are trained to know what impairment looks like and equipped to have "uncomfortable conversations" that could save lives, Truman Bradley, executive director of the Marijuana Industry Group, said at the Wednesday workshop.
A recent survey of more than 500 customers of Native Roots dispensaries found 41% of respondents may drive while under the influence of cannabis.That same survey found that only 11% of respondents indicated they were "very likely" to drive while high while 59% said they were "not very likely" to do so.Nearly all respondents — about 96% — indicated they typically consume cannabis at home rather than in a vehicle.
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