Plans to legalize and regulate marijuana in Canada are raising questions about how it will impact road safety. ( EDUARDO VERDUGO / AP )Last month, the Liberal government formally announced its plans to legalize and regulate marijuana by spring 2017. Dr. Robert Mann is examining the different ways cannabis affects volunteers’ driving skills as part of an ongoing clinical study at Toronto’s Centre for Addiction and Mental Health. He told the Star his early analysis of the data suggests cannabis impacts a driver’s ability to process multiple tasks at once. Article Continued Below“We know that if you go into a laboratory and look at basic driving skills, there is evidence that the more you smoke, the more affected your performance is,” he said.

Source: thestar May 24, 2016 16:40 UTC