Cannabis and driving

Evening News of 24 January 2004. According to research by British scientists a moderate amount of cannabis may actually improve driving performance. A group of 20 drivers aged 21-40 participated in a driving simulator test. Ten of them smoked the equivalent of about half a cannabis cigarette. Subjects under cannabis scored superior than the sober subjects in most of the tasks including reaction time and number of collisions. Simon Smith Wright, the director of the laboratory where the studies were conducted, said: "The results of our test clearly show that a small or moderate amount of cannabis is actually quite beneficial to someone’s driving performance."